>>56951a) You are not saving anything by turning flat color images into jpegs. Edge fry makes them (images taken from [1]) ugly on screen. Do you have PNG originals for these screenshots? Dithered images you've put in 2014-esque hipster fashion remind me of dithered images on solar-powered version of lowtech magazine [2]. There, all images were treated the same, most of the graphics that require reading or color cues have lost their meaning in the name of dubious power-consumption optimization despite main website up and running, hosted on TypePad, behind DDoS protection that doesn't let you read articles unless you enable javascript when your source IP happens to be on some made-up naugty lists.
b) 500 Megabytes is around 4 cents in NVME SSD storage, less in hard drives, why is that even a question for local backups? Modern VPSs come with many gigabytes of storage. Additionally, you probably should not use VPS from EU countries and especially anything in the big data center hubs since they obey walmartia laws and have quick-reacting abuse departments.
c) Your footer (anything below main article body, all those "recommended articles" and other fluff injected in usual fashion of "customer retention" metrics on regular blogshit sites that earn money by selling your data) fills whole browser window. Well, not the whole 1000 pixel high default Tor Browser viewport on
my screen which is rather unusual due to personal setup. Most people don't even have that because they are most likely to use 1080p or it's scale derivatives, or something worse on something like a laptop, add default window manager decorations, taskbars, window title bar, fat finger-friendly touch interfaces, late Mozilla tabs atrocity, and what are they left with, something in the 700-800 dots vertical space? This is approximately how much your footer occupies. Make it a collapsible outline or something.
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https://sizeof.cat/post/tips-for-website-optimization/[2] - solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
>>56959Thumbnails for photographs, it's the only real niche this format should be used for. 40% size reduction in comparison to uh,
PNG(!) thumbnails used on chans like this one for example. You don't complain about thumbnails for videos, do you? Video is a series of photographs taken in quick succession.