Mozilla to improve JPEG compression with mozjpeg tool
(Phys.org) —Mozilla announced on Wednesday its new project to provide a production-quality JPEG encoder that improves compression. Project mozjpeg will bring better compression efficiency to JPEG, the popular image format with proven staying power since 1992. The Wednesday blog announcement from the Mozilla Foundation presented reasons for the launch. The number of photos that the average Web site displays has grown over the years, as has the size of those photos. HTML, JS, and CSS files are relatively small in comparison. The Mozilla blog noted too that photos can easily make up the bulk of the network traffic for a page load. "Reducing the size of these files is an obvious goal for optimization." Why did the Mozilla team focus on JPEG specifically? The announcement had an answer for that too.