[TYPO3-dev] Speed up your Typo3 website by optimizing images

[Dan Osipov]

Since DAM works off the metadata found in headers of images & other 
media, is it safe to assume that this option would cripple it? Can it be 
stripped after its inserted into the DB?

Dan Osipov
Calkins Media
http://danosipov.com/blog/

John Angel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What if I tell you that you can significantly speed up your Typo3 sites by optimizing images WITHOUT losing their quality?
> 
> Statistics for 96187 images from several Typo3 installations:
> - Total size before: 2176 MB
> - Total size after running the script: 1243 MB
> - Result: 43% smaller images!
> 
> I suppose this figure will vary for your installations, but you can try it out.
> 
> Check out the explanation and the optimization script itself at:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=10032
> 
> This is my present for all of you Typo3 guys out there! Happy New Year! :)
> 
> Thank you all for building such a great CMS!
> 
> Warm regards,
> John
> 
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