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Optimizing images - SharePoint Tutorial
From the course: SharePoint: Creating Communication Sites
Optimizing images
- [Instructor] It's important to remember that SharePoint is hosted in a web browser, and images can be a little tricky. If images are not necessarily optimized for the web, it can make your SharePoint site almost unusable. The modern SharePoint sites are responsive in their design, meaning that the pages redesign themselves based on the screen size on which they are being viewed. For this to work properly, the images used must not only be web friendly, but web part friendly. Most images are taken at a very high resolution. Think of a photo that you take on your camera, and then check the dimensions. Usually they are around 2000 to 3000 pixels. But let's look at the typical screen size. The most common screen resolution is 1366 by 768 pixels. That means, if you were to place a full-size photo onto this screen, it would be more than twice the size of the actual screen. Each of those pixels has to load when you access a webpage. The bigger the picture, the slower the page will load. So…
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