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Best way to losslessly optimize PNG images

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As a web optimizer, you might now that the Internet’s main bloatware is images. There are so many tools out there for lossless PNG optimization. Which one is the best now?

;tldr Zopfling

Testing

I took a sample .png image sized 46966 bytes and ran it across well established optimizing software. Each time maximum compression/optimization flags were passed.

What I’ve tested:

  • pngout (a less known optimizer with closed source deflate compression algorithm that beats most known tools)
  • optipng (an often choice for most)
  • pngcrush
  • zopflipng (the new folk by Google, actually a companion tool to their zopfli library)

Results

Tool name Flags Result size, bytes
pngout   44519
pngcrush -brute -reduce 46813
optipng -o7 46657
zopflipng -m 43291

Install and use Zopfling

Without much further ado, I will tell you how to use Zopfling to crunch your PNG images without loss of quality.

In CentOS/RHEL, we have made it available for easy install. Setup our repository, then:

yum -y install zopfli

That’s it! Now you can run zopflipng -m /path/to/your.png /path/to/your_optimized.png to crunch size without losing a bit of visible information.

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