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Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Smashing Magazine

In my research, I was looking into sites found in the December 2020 mobile HTTPArchive , and it wasn’t difficult to spot a good number of sites loading huge video files by default, both on mobile and on desktop. It’s not uncommon to find websites with extremely large videos — for example, used used as hero background videos.

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Setting Height And Width On Images Is Important Again

Smashing Magazine

Many websites may not bother to specify width s and height s on their <img> tags. I queried the HTTPArchive and it looks like 62% of <img> tags have width or heights , which is way higher than I expected to be honest — but let’s try to increase that statistic even more now we have a reason to again.

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