Review:

GifOptimizer

by Joshua Reimer

September 06, 1999

GifOptimizer is the type of service that I wish I had found long ago.

It is so fast, easy and free. That is right, you won't find a "registered version only" in the whole site!

GifOptimizer takes your gif image and simply removes the unused colors its color palette. It generally reduces images by 50-75% without any noticeable quality difference! I think that is pretty good. I mean, your website would have over 50% less fat on it!

Their site is also simplicity at its best! You simply go to the main page, plonk in the gif's address, and it will come back with a whole bunch of optimized copies for you to choose from.

Besides reducing colors, you can also resize the images to further conserve bandwidth.

There is only one more thing I could ask for. Batch processing for when I want to do a whole bunch of graphics! However, I am not to perturbed by this, as I rarely do more than two or three graphics at a time. But for some people, this could be an issue.

For those of you that only need to optimize a small number of graphics, GifOptimizer is an excellent service!

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