State of the Web: Top Image Optimization Strategies - Analysis - HTTP Archive
Images are a central part of the web. Beautiful imagery draws customers deeper into the story that your webpage is attempting to tell – whether it is news, entertainment, or e-commerce. And as important as images are – the (potentially) large size of images can hurt the load time of the same pages, leading to customer abandonment. In fact, the HTTP Archive shows that the average mobile website is ~50% images (in KB): This percentage has held relatively constant for a number of years, but at...