smush.it is a smash hit

Since me and Nicole announced smush.it yesterday at Ajax Experience and thanks to Christian Heilmann posting it on Ajaxian and Yahoo Developer Network, this thing seems to have exploded! It's all over the blogosphere, twitter-sphere and every other sphere.

BTW, Chris never seizes to amaze - he posted the video on Ajaxian at 11:01 am and our talk was from 10:30 to 10:35 am :)

Last night, about 12 hours after the announcement, I checked the directory that stores the results and it had over 10 000 entries. There's one entry for every smush.it run, which means for example every page you smush using the FF extension. If you have 5 images on a page on average, this means over 50 000K smushed images in a day, nice!

We've received great feadback and great suggestions, keep'em coming. People are already making smush.it part of their dev/build process. People are already seeing response time performance improvement.

I'm really looking forward to releasing the official API, open source the code, the command-line version and all the fun stuff. We were just too busy trying to come up with something presentable for the Ajax conference.

The URL again: http://smushit.com

So, what's a smu? ;)

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19 Responses to “smush.it is a smash hit”

  1. Henrik Pejer Says:

    This is absolutely wonderful! I downloaded your presentation on this very topic and thought that I, as soon as my new project starts, adopt as much as possible…

    And then you go and make a web service that does this for ya! Wonderful!

    I can’t wait for the command line/api/whatever to be done.

    If I can help you in any way, tell me and I’ll do what I can.

  2. Boštjan Says:

    Why didn’t you use smush.it (literaly) domain?

  3. Stoyan Says:

    we tried and haven’t given up, but it didn’t work on time for the conference announcement, so we settled temporarily for smushit.com, that’s how it ended up with the funny word in the domain

  4. sorin Says:

    Awesome! Very useful tool … thank you!
    Do you think you’re gonna come to the PHP Conf in Montreal next year? :)

  5. Stoyan Says:

    Hi Sorin, I sent my proposal, hope they’ll like it. I do want to visit Montreal in the winter again!

  6. Design Live Says:

    I’m waiting for Photoshop plugin :)

  7. Stoyan Says:

    no idea how to do these, but I think a right click context menu in windows explorer would be nice

  8. Kaloyan K. Tsvetkov Says:

    Very nice! Indeed recently there’s been much talk about optimizing CSS & JS size, HTML output, sprites and stuff, and to me it seems that the image optimizing was overlooked. Again, very nice work!

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  10. grosser Says:

    Here is a small helper to get optimization from the commandline, to bridge the time until the official API is released.

    http://pragmatig.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/automatically-reduce-image-sizes-with-smushit/

  11. Gio Says:

    Pay attention: Smush.it [LOGO] and http://www.smushit.com [URL] are in conflict!

    Italian people –like me– have difficult in reading because “dot it” is considered as italian suffix for URLs.

  12. Lazlo Toth Says:

    Check out this news post about Smush it and be sure to read on for the Smush it song at the end: http://hothardware.com/News/Smush-Your-Images-For-Speedier-Web-Page-Loading/

  13. Stoyan Says:

    Thanks Lazlo, this is hi-la-rious!

  14. Stoyan Says:

    Hi Gio,

    we were actually trying to register smush.it but it didn’t happen on time for the announcement, now we have it, it just doesn’t point to the right DNS

    S

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    Smush it is great, I am addicted to using it on every site I have. I’m not happy until I’ve free’d every last KB out of my images. Thanks!

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