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A Conversation about Improving Web Performance, Image Formats and Contentful’s Image API

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In this episode, I have a great conversation with Allen White, Contentful's Enterprise Solution Engineer, all about image formats, DAM integrations and how to manipulate images using the Contentful Image API to help improve web performance.

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  • Tell us about your background. 
  • Tell us about the different kind of image formats we should be concerned with. 
  • Tell us about the JPEG compression. 
  • Tell us about lossy versus lossless compression. 
  • Tell us about the PNG image format. 
  • Tell us about the WebP image format. 
  • How are RAW images different from all other formats for the web? 
  • How can you make images responsive and what does that mean? 
  • Tell us about Contentful's face detection feature in the Image API. 
  • Can we have 1 master image and have the Contentful API generate the required images depending on the viewport? 
  • Does the Contentful Image API cache images? 
  • How and where are images stored in Contentful?
  • Give us an overview of the Contentful Images API. 
  • Can you use the CPAPI or CDAPI to retrieve images? 
  • Tell us about progressive JPEGs. Tell us about 8 bit PNGs. 
  • Tell us about GIFs. 
  • Can we use the Contentful Image API on images not stored in Contentful? 
  • How can we integrate Contentful with other DAMs? 
  • Tell us about external image APIs. 
  • What do you see as the future of Image APIs? 
  • What is Lazy Loading of images?

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