Squoosh is a new web app from the great G that comes so you can compress photos without losing any quality along the way. An entire arrival of a tool that was originally dedicated to developers.
It's a fact that we need upload images in their exact size to the hosting of our website and compressed in such a way that they do not suppose an extra load. In this way we will maintain an adequate loading speed so that Google then rewards us in our positioning in the search engine.
For this reason, Squoosh is a great tool that allows us move from installing programs like Resizer or Photoshop itself for these daily tasks. And it is that Squoosh allows you to compress images, change their format or even reduce its size to meet our needs.
One of the peculiarities of Squoosh is that use WebAssembly, an image compression codec that is not usually available in our browser by default.
Squoosh allows us convert images to file formats more classic image formats such as the well-known JPG and PNG. Although it also leads to conversion to other formats adapted to websites. We are talking about MozJPEG or WebP.
It is also quite a hoot that we can see the original image at the same time and how it will be in real time in another. That is, we can move a slider to check the difference in quality. The amount of compressed data and the percentage gained by going through Squoosh to compress our images is also provided.
Another of its peculiarities, to the ser a web app with that ending .app, is that you only need to have internet the first time you load Squoosh, since then it will become available from the same browser from the cache.
Squoosh becomes a great web app so that you can use it from any browser and you can considerably reduce the file size without losing an iota of image quality.
Here you got squoosh.