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by CharlesW 2246 days ago
As an experiment I grabbed all the images from v/home/f/images/iphone-takeover.

Originals: 584 KB for 18 files. After running them through ImageOptim: 353 KB.

So, I made the images ~40% smaller on average just by running everything through a JPEG optimizer.

When you compare that to the ~50% average reduction the author saw for two of the images, it makes WebP seem even less interesting.