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• Removing Image Borders using API
  Published on: Jan 14, 2024
  

  In this blog post we’ll talk about a new feature recently added to the Pixboost API - image border trimming. Why Removing Image Borders? Image borders are the edges of images that share the same color. Turned out that sometimes you’d want to remove them. You might know that we are meticulous about adding new features to the API to make sure it’s easy to use and not overloaded with features.

• The Business Benefits of using Image CDN
  Published on: May 26, 2023
  

  In today’s digital landscape, website speed plays a crucial role in user experience and business success. One way to optimize website performance is by using an Image CDN (Content Delivery Network) to ensure fast image loading. In this article, we will explore the non-technical business benefits of fast-loading images and why integrating an Image CDN can be a game-changer for your website. Business Metrics Reducing the time of image loading is part of the web performance of the website.

• Optimising images for High DPI displays
  Published on: May 9, 2022
  

  Over the last decade, we’ve gone from having a home PC to having a pocket PC that can access the internet everywhere. It came with plenty of freedom and new problems to solve. For example, we had to figure out how to present content on different screens. This was answered through responsive design, meaning that we could rely on one codebase with adaptive layouts depending on the output device. Say you had a website with a large image for desktop computers that you wanted to display on mobile devices with smaller screens.

• 5x Free Image CDN and new All Included plan
  Published on: Jan 16, 2022
  

  It’s 2022, and we are back with some amazing news! We made two big changes to our Image CDN offering: 🎉 Made our Free plan 5 times bigger 🎉 😎 Added a brand new one packed with awesome features 😎 In this blog, we’ll show and tell you about both. What do you pay for The main pricing component of an Image CDN is bandwidth. Let’s see what it is for a start:

• Choosing between lossy and lossless conversion for PNG
  Published on: Oct 23, 2021
  

  PNG and JPEG are the two oldest image formats that web developers use to add graphics to their web pages. Web standards came a long way, and often we use next-generation formats, such as WebP/AVIF/JpegXL, to deliver an image to the end-user. But JPEG and PNG are still the source of truth most of the time. In this article, I’ll explain why converting PNG to the next-gen format is not as straightforward and how we went about it.

• August 2021 Update
  Published on: Aug 15, 2021
  

  We’ve done quite a bit of work in the last months and are proud to share all the things we released recently. The new features touched every bit of the service starting in the image optimisation backend, following by API enhancements and finishing in the dashboard.

• Why Pixboost Is the Best Image Cdn
  Published on: May 24, 2021
  

  When it comes to web projects, it is crucial for the final result to be top-notch in the aspect of speed. Images make up one of the areas that can have a significant effect on how fast a website loads. However, fine-tuning this area is a little more complex than merely adjusting image sizes. It involves applying different technologies to make marginal gains in how images in web projects are delivered to the end user.

• Using "Save-Data" header with an Image CDN to improve UX
  Published on: Feb 17, 2021
  

  We are happy to announce that we added support of “Save-Data” client hint in Pixboost and to celebrate we decided to write a blog about it! The internet was created more than 30 years ago and has been getting faster and faster ever since. Every 2-3 years, mobile and home networks see an advancement in technologies and standards. More recently, the 5G rollout has gained traction in the mobile space, as Mesh WiFi and fibre make their way into homes.

• January 2021 Update
  Published on: Jan 26, 2021
  

  Hi there, It’s 2021, and we’ve already shipped some new exciting features around several components. Here is a quick recap of what we’ve been working on! Enhancements in AVIF support As you might know we’ve released AVIF support last year and there were limitations on the source file size and support of PNG images with transparency. We are happy to announce that we removed both limitations and completed our AVIF journey with the latest release of our API.

• Load Your Images Faster with the Next-Gen AVIF Format
  Published on: Nov 8, 2020
  

  Images have come to dominate the Internet. Most of today’s websites are comprised of 50 to 80 percent images. Here at Pixboost, our mission is to optimize images, making them as small as possible so that we can serve them to our users as fast as possible. So we were excited to begin implementing the new image format, AVIF, which is supported in the latest version of Chrome (86), and which will be supported in the next version of Firefox.