There are numerous tools that are specialized for this. For images, an image generated by a tool could be not optimized enough for the Web it is recommended to use tools that will compress as much as possible with the required quality. For better performance of a Web site, it is ideal to compress as much as possible, while keeping an acceptable level of quality. Some formats can be used for both loss-less or lossy compression, like webp, and usually lossy algorithm can be configured to compress more or less, which then of course leads to less or more quality. Video formats on the Web are lossy the jpeg image format is also lossy.

Lossy compression, where the cycle alters the original data in a (hopefully) imperceptible way for the user.

It matches (byte to byte) with the original.įor images, gif or png are using lossless compression. Loss-less compression, where the compression-uncompression cycle doesn't alter the data that is recovered.Compression algorithms used for files can be grouped into two broad categories: Engineers designed the optimized compression algorithm used by file formats designed for this specific purpose. Unlike text, these other media types use a lot of space to store their data and the need to optimize storage and regain space was apparent very early. If text can typically have as much as 60% redundancy, this rate can be much higher for some other media like audio and video.

Each data type has some redundancy, that is wasted space, in it.

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