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by PaulHoule 1735 days ago
Do they encode in real time, cache the results, etc.?

I don't have a huge amount of trust in the encoding decisions that they're going to make, how the images are going to look for other people, etc.

For instance I am making the prototype of my system and testing it locally and often I look at the origin server without the CDN. I think hard about the encoding trade-offs and user experience and I don't like a black box messing with my images. Also to get the best results from AVIF encoding I'd think it would get better results if it was working from less-compressed images as opposed to what I put up which might be aggressively compressed.
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phillipseamore 1735 days ago
They can do real time and cache variants and in the paid part of Images they allow uploading originals and storing them with CF.

Also CF Images can work with originals from your origin .

Personally I brute force all my static images to compress to a 92 VMAF score (and I'm always smaller than any of these services with better perceived quality). But I do also work with a lot of clients that sometimes add a few hundred new images pr. day and then these solutions come into play.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/image-resizing/

https://developers.cloudflare.com/images/

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