> especially compared to images which can be multiple megabytes in size
Please don't put images of multi-megabytes size on web-pages. My boss put a 10-megabyte image on the homepage of one of our clients; he fancied himself a photographer, and he took the photo. It gave a 10s page-load time from a desktop PC. I offered to shrink it for him, which would have taken 2 minutes; he wasn't having it.
I don't think it was pride in his photo; I think the client wasn't paying their bills, and he wanted to punish them.
But please, shrink your images to fit on the screen of your most-capable target device. There's no need for super-hi-res posters on websites.
Please don't put images of multi-megabytes size on web-pages. My boss put a 10-megabyte image on the homepage of one of our clients; he fancied himself a photographer, and he took the photo. It gave a 10s page-load time from a desktop PC. I offered to shrink it for him, which would have taken 2 minutes; he wasn't having it.
I don't think it was pride in his photo; I think the client wasn't paying their bills, and he wanted to punish them.
But please, shrink your images to fit on the screen of your most-capable target device. There's no need for super-hi-res posters on websites.