JPEG Compression

JPEG is a good Web format because it allows for data compression
-- in other words, smaller files. But JPEG compression is lossy,
meaning that the more you compress a file, the worse it looks.

Quality 80% 40% 10%
No
Smoothing

1.67 Kb

1.06 Kb

0.73 Kb
Medium
Smoothing

1.52 Kb

0.98 Kb

0.71 Kb
Maximum
Smoothing

1.40 Kb

0.92 Kb

0.69 Kb

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