pngquant VS Squoosh

pngquant Reviews

Squoosh Reviews

1. nathnolt    

   about 3 years ago
   Best tool to make images smaller or to figure out the right setting for batch work

   The only negative thing about this web app, is that it's not clear which formats are supported in which browsers.

   👍 Pros:    Intuitive|Easy user interface|User-friendly|Great user experience|Web app|Offline mode|Fast ui|Fast

pngquant mentions (28)

• Random Code Inspiration Volume 2

  Image-shrinker is a simple, easy to use open source tool for shrinking images. Under the hood it uses pngquant, mozjpg, SVGO, and gifsicle. You can also install these tools individually if you need to compress some images. I often use pngquantafter exporting PNGs for web projects from Figma or similar tools. I literally run it like this:. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• keeping collection size down (for ankiweb) when needing lots of image cards/notes

  Searching more I found https://pngquant.org/ which I could add to my bulk workflow to make most png's approach the jpeg size. Source: 11 months ago

• screen capture/snapshot utility with image optimization support/configurability

  But this did prompt me to do some searching, and I see https://pngquant.org/ which seems to achieve jpeg like size reduction while maintaining the file as a png. One difference they note is that this method will typically preserve sharp edges better than jpeg (which is probably a strong plus for my type of use case). Source: 11 months ago

• Exported png image with color-to-alpha edit is huge

  Pngquant is also great for shaving filesizes down, but unlike oxipng, it's explicitly lossy. It'll reduce colors and even dither, but it will try to keep an image visually similar. Https://pngquant.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Name a program that doesn't get enough love!

  Oxipng, pngquant and svgcleaner — optimizing images. Source: over 1 year ago

Squoosh mentions (172)

• Optimizing Images for Developer Blogs

  Squoosh: A webpage that allows you to quickly optimize images for your blog. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• Building an online image compressor

  One of the most complete image compressor out there, Squoosh.app by Google, uses web assembly for Decoding/encoding images and it works pretty well. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Improve performance of Go serving a React frontend

  First off you want to shrink your images. Every mb your page is the more it will hurt your score. I use https://squoosh.app/. Source: 5 months ago

• Power Consumption of JPEG, WebP, and AVIF

  Https://squoosh.app/ Having a quick look at squoosh, it uses lossy compression of webp by default. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• What makes a page rank well?

  Size images appropriately (https://squoosh.app/ can be used for this). Ideally, the size of the image should be kept below 100 KB. - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago