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by lmz 801 days ago
Why would you prefer to have duplicates in different formats when other formats supported by all are available.
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dwaite 801 days ago
This is a common storage vs bandwidth trade-off.
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izacus 800 days ago
The bandwidth saving is miniscule by any metric though.
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wesamco 800 days ago
and using one image format (or fewer number of them) increases the CDN's cache hit rate, so it decreases latencies and makes your site load faster.
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