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Icon Fonts vs SVGs - Which One Should You Use?

If you are building a website or application and wondering whether to use icon fonts or SVGs, you have come to the right place. In this article, we will explore the pros and cons of each option and help you decide which one is the best fit for your project. Graphical icons are a crucial component of almost every website or app. Although icons are typically small in size by nature, selecting a format for your web icons is not a trivial decision.

July 6, 2023 Read more

Signing Image Processing

Signing Image Processing requests is an efficient way to ensure that no unwanted image operation can be executed. Every request needs a valid token in order to be delivered. Secure Token and Image Processing is a powerful setup to transform and deliver images in a secure way. If watermark images are signed correctly, the original base image cannot be accessed anymore. Further, we've extended the existing Secure Token feature with the option to add an IP address.

April 7, 2021 Read more

Image Processing Insights

Optimization and delivery of images play a key role in web development. KeyCDN has significantly simplified the way images are transformed and delivered with our Image Processing service. Our solution doesn't require any change on the origin server. Today, there's no more reason for not using the next-generation image format WebP and optimizing images all the way through. It improves the user experience, results in less bandwidth usage, and makes your website faster.

September 3, 2020 Read more

Push Zone Supports WebP and Brotli

The feature WebP caching and Brotli compression is now also available for Push Zones! WebP caching is automatically active once Image Processing is enabled and will transform images to WebP if the client supports the format. Image hosting in combination with WebP has never been easier. Brotli compression is now also enabled for all Push Zones by default which results in great performance improvements. The feature allows to upload assets with custom compression.

May 6, 2020 Read more

Push Zone Supports Image Processing

Push Zones are now seamlessly supporting Image Processing! This allows global image hosting without having the images hosted on another origin server. The complete feature set of Image Processing is now also available for Push Zones. It only takes a few steps to upload and transform images. Our edge servers are directly linked to our global storage cluster, which ensures faster loading times of images. This is ideal for delivering images of any size with low latency regardless of where the user is located.

February 13, 2020 Read more

Canonicalization Explained

Canonicalization can be defined as, "A process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into one standard and approved format." What that means is that every resource on a given website should have a single URL (Uniform Resource Locator) rather than multiple URLs hosting identical content. When websites have more than one URL, they rank lower in search engines and their content may not be as accessible or as popular as it otherwise could be.

December 12, 2019 Read more

Image Processing Supports Focal Point Crop

We've extended our Image Processing service with a new focal point crop feature! It adds to our exisiting crop operation by allowing an image crop and an optional zoom at certain coordinates of the image. The coordinates can be absolute or relative to the image dimensions. An extra debug parameter displays the coordinates on the image in order to find the right position for the crop. Any image processing operation can be used in combination with focal point crop.

December 5, 2019 Read more

Image Processing Supports Watermark

We've extended our Image Processing service with a new watermark feature! This new operation allows an image to be placed on top of another image. It seamlessly integrates into our existing service. The image overlay process consists of two parts, the base image and the overlay image. The base image can still be transformed and optimized with any image processing parameter. Once the base image has been modified, the overlay image is added on top.

November 7, 2019 Read more

AV1 Image File Format (AVIF)

The major application for high quality compression of photos is Internet speed. While bandwidth does continue to increase each year, so does the quality and size of most Internet media. What that means is that even though data can be transferred more quickly, the need for compressing media into smaller files without losing visual quality has not gone away. In fact, the need for an effective compressing tool may have even grown.

October 17, 2019 Read more

Optimize Images for Web

When it comes to marketing your website, there are lots of different aspects to consider. These include, but aren’t limited to, speed, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), conversation rates, bounce rates, and others. Though we usually write about how to optimize performance, today, we’re diving into alternate image optimization techniques for the web. SEO and social media play an important role in helping your website’s performance and conversions skyrocket. Let’s jump into the top three image optimization domains for the web.

September 12, 2019 Read more

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