Yahoo’s Smush.it … not worthwhile

Summary: If your already saving images for the web out of photoshop using the “save for web” tool ( under the file menu ) then your not likely to get big gains using Smush.it. I saw a tweet about yahoo’s http://www.smushit.com/ysmush.it/ Smush.it service that is supposed to compress images your using in web design without losing any quality …. I ran it against 40 files and eeked out a measly couple percent at best. All of these images ( jpgs, png8, gifs ) were exported from photoshop cs using the save for web tool. There has been lots of talk about making your site super fast to download in order to get better search engine rankings. It is not a [...]