RootsChat Performance: #2 Avatar sizes

[LizzieW]

Mine too. Looks like we have been modified!

Yes, but Bob states:  Admin has been converting some of these from PNG format to JPG format with 50% compression.

So our avatars have gone the wrong way

Maggie - 32478 bytes is 32.478KB.  Actually, the properties of your avatar show it is 31.72KB

Lizzie

[oldtimer]

Oh, I see what you mean Lizzie!

Mine was definitely a JPeg when I posted it! 

[Maggie1895]

and mine's nearly quadrupled in size -  it was reduced down to 7.78KB and a jpg. when I posted it earlier this morning!    I'm going to take the picture off until I can work out how that happened, because it really is only that smaller size, I've just checked.

Lizzie, thanks for the explanation.

If Bob, Arranroots or someone can explain how that happened or where I went wrong I'll put it back, but much as I like the photo having it downloading loads of times and clogging up the site speed is unlikely to endear me to everyone else.

[Gadget]

Seems like someone went the wrong way with yours, Maggie 

I posted a new one yesterday - it was a jpg, 7.06kb and 106 x 162

It's now jpg, 2.87kb and 98 x 150 

Obviously made smaller to reduce the height

I could have chopped some sky off if necessary

Maybe I'll just be a blank  and save a h*ll of a lot of space with the number of postings that I've got


Gadget

[Maggie1895]

Thanks Gadget,
maybe the problem was mine was landscape rather than portrait, and too wide?     Just like me, in fact

[Berlin-Bob]

I've asked admin:

the avatars from Maggie and Lizzie haven't been changed.

Gadget, the RootsChat software automatically resizes the avatars (pixel wise) so that whatever is larger, height or width, gets reduced to 150 pixels and the other dimension gets reduced proportionally.

Unfortunately automatic resizing is only done on the pixel-size, not on the KB-size.

Bob

[Maggie1895]

Thanks Bob, I'll still keep my picture off until I can be sure it's a smaller size - or find another picture
Maggie

[Berlin-Bob]

I think I mentioned this elsewhere:

everytime you download a page (i.e. click on a link), each image on the page gets downloaded once.

So if two people chat to each other on a topic, although ther are 15 replies on a page, only one copy of each avatar will be downloaded.

Bob

[kiwihalfpint]

Just realised today that I was one of those who had their avatar modified.   Fair enough..... but my cat was always drumming its left paw, and today was the first time I noticed that she doesn't


KHP

PS  I miss that paw drumming, it was like it was making a statement!!!!