Website Performance - ImageKit.io Blog

Extending Lighthouse for custom image and video optimization analysis

Discover how to extend Lighthouse for custom image and video optimization analysis, enabling automated performance monitoring and tailored insights to improve user experience and streamline web optimization efforts

Image Optimization

ImageKit: The Secret Ingredient in Swiggy’s Expansion Journey

Swiggy faced media delivery challenges amid expansion, prompting a shift to ImageKit. The transition simplified migration, provided granular sub-accounts, dedicated support, and advanced format support. This led to cost savings, improved performance, and enhanced user experience.

Video Streaming

Explained: How Video Indexing Optimizes Video Search and Streaming Experience

Let's talk video indexing - any search engine's secret sauce in video search and delivery.

Video Streaming

Understanding Low-latency Video Streaming

Standard, low, and ultra-low: latencies are of various types and of various uses. Learn what they mean.

CDN

Video Content Delivery Network: The Secret Ingredient To Buffer-Free Video Streaming

Learn how video CDNs work and why you need one for your online video business.

HTML

A Beginner's Guide to HTML5 Video Encoding

Learn how to encode and implement HTML5 video for optimal web performance and compatibility.

ImageKit API

How cloud video encoding could boost your video performance

Learn how cloud video encoding could boost your video performance.

videos

How Adaptive Bitrate Streaming is Revolutionizing Video Delivery

Discover the benefits of ABR in video streaming, how it works, and how it could improve your web and video performance.

Video optimization

Video Encoding 101: A Comprehensive Guide

Video encoding is the foundation of a great streaming experience. Learn more about its inner engineering and potential benefits.

Top 8 video file formats for your website

Media Library

Dynamic image resizing

Learn how to dynamically resize & adapt images to fit the page layout by changing URL parameters. No image processing server is required.

Image Optimization

What is an Image CDN - The Complete Guide

An end-to-end guide that covers an image CDN, how does it work and what features you should look for when selecting one.

CDN

What is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) - A Beginner's Guide

An introduction to what is a Content Delivery Network (CDN) and how does it work with examples.

Website Performance

Latency — The Silent Killer Of Conversions

Page load speed is crucial to a good user experience, and it is why latency is killing conversions one user at a time.

ImageKit.io Features

Perfectly Optimize Images Using ImageKit’s Tools And Analytics

For every third-party tool that you integrate on your website, it is essential to be able to determine if you are using that tool well or not. And especially if

Website Performance

Guide for Caching and HTTP Cache Headers for Static Content

Best practices for cache management of static assets and using the correct cache headers like Cache-Control

User Experience

'Tis The Season For Better Website Performance

This holiday season, improve your website's performance to cash in on the evolving trends in consumer behavior.

Image Optimization

How To Manage An Image-Heavy Website

With the many images that are used on a website adding the extra weight onto its pages, the page load speed takes a hit. Optimizing these images will not only reduce bandwidth consumption but also reduce the page load time.

Image Optimization

Image SEO - The Comprehensive Guide For Better Ranking Images

A critical, but often overlooked factor on our webpages - our images, have a search ranking too. And not only can they rank higher in SERPs, but they can also contribute to the overall SEO ranking of our website. And that's why we optimize our images for SEO. Check out how.

User Experience

Improve Your Google PageSpeed Insights Score For Images

Google PageSpeed score is an important factor determining your website's SEO ranking, and images have a substantial impact on it. Know how to optimize your images to improve your Google PageSpeed Insights score with image optimization.

User Experience

The What, Why, And How of Brotli Compression

A brief overview of the Brotli compression and why to use it for your website's text-based files.

Ecommerce

Lazy Loading Images – The Complete Guide

Lazy loading images that are not in the viewport improves initial page load performance and user experience. This is an in-depth guide to everything about lazy loading of images including native lazy loading methods.

Image Optimization

Lighter And Automatic Responsive Images With Client Hints

ImageKit, with it's support of Client Hints, can now automatically deliver responsive images and lighter images without you changing the image URL. Learn how to start using it.

Image Optimization

How SVG Optimization Can Help In Improving Website Speed?

SVG codes can be full of irrelevant attributes, making the resultant image much heavier. Learn how SVG optimization can help in improving page load speed.

SEO

What Is Image Optimization And Why Is It Important For A Website?

Optimizing web images is a process of delivering the high-quality images in the right format, dimension, size, and resolution while keeping the smallest possible size.