If you decide to share a gigantic photo gallery online or a series of documents with many diagrams and high-definition content, you will likely feel the impact of downloads through your provider. Fortunately, there are several alternatives for optimizing image size and other files, even when they have already undergone previous compression stages. One of them is FileOptimizer, a super-application capable of processing dozens of formats.
Everyone wants to publish HD images on our portals and blogs, but there are certain situations that force us to change strategy.
Mobile devices rule the world, their network connections are “expensive/slow/or both”, and if our goal is that audience visits us, we must be very efficient when sharing material. This same conflict extends to PDF documents, executable files, and other elements.
Yes, we can reduce the resolution of images or change their format to adopt lossy compression, and that is usually enough.
However, there are always a few extra bytes to steal from a file without modifying the final result. That’s when FileOptimizer comes in, a lossless recompression tool.
How to optimize image size with FileOptimizer
The best part of FileOptimizer is that its use comes down to a couple of clicks. Go to the File menu, choose the folder or individual files to process, and start optimization.
The program will automatically apply all its available resources, especially if it is a format with greater compression potential (for example, PNG images).
The options menu includes advanced parameters for each extension. The most relevant ones allow us to keep metadata or follow a lossy path instead of lossless; in PDFs it is possible to modify the number of dots per inch, and for executables there is UPX, but it should be used carefully (some antiviruses see UPX recompression as malicious).
Finally, in the general tab we find optimization and priority values. The factory configuration is “normal” in both fields, but if you notice FileOptimizer becoming too slow or your hardware doesn’t help, it might be a good idea to favor a faster profile.
Now, the usual question: How good is FileOptimizer at its job? The answer is “it depends”. I have seen PNG images lose 1.5 megabytes when they seemed untouchable, and JPEGs that gave up only six or seven thousand bytes. What matters here is that the savings are cumulative, and your users will thank you.
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