improving image sizes

[Leannapelham]

ran all the blog images through an optimizer to improve image size

[MolloKhan]

Great, thank you!

[weaverryan]

These images are processed through Imagine and thumnailed. So the source image is not what we show the user. So I'm genuinely not sure if this affects the final image sizes or not. @Leannapelham were you generally being proactive or did you see a problem with the image sizes on the site?

[bocharsky-bw]

Hm, yeah, not sure if updated source image size will affect the final image size after Imagine.

Btw, Lighthouse (IIRC) suggests using the new Webp format for images as that one has even better size with the same quality. And I see Imagine in theory should support it as well: https://github.com/liip/LiipImagineBundle/blob/2.x/Resources/doc/basic-usage.rst#webp-image-format

I wonder if we should move to that format instead?

[weaverryan]

Hmm, what about 2 things:

1. See if we can use liip to change to webp, since it's better.
2. Stop using cloudfront entirely to store the images. Instead, store them locally on p.sh. We would probably need to set up a mount for the public dir where the final imagine image files would be stored. But then, done. Cloudflare already caches these. And we could even enable polish to optimize them a bit further.

[bocharsky-bw]

That would simplify things with blog... I think we kinda overcomplicated it now. I wonder if we should add hash to the image filenames to allow us to cache them forever?

Also wonder if that Polish (🇵🇱?) thing would require to be paid extra.

[MolloKhan]

That would simplify things with blog... I think we kinda overcomplicated it now. I wonder if we should add hash to the image filenames to allow us to cache them forever?

Also wonder if that Polish (🇵🇱?) thing would require to be paid extra.

I think we're pro