Date: 13 Sep 2024
We’ve committed to a product-led growth strategy focused on delivering continuous value to our customers and a key part of this approach is actively seeking feedback and insights from the community we serve. That’s why we recently conducted a customer satisfaction survey – and we’d like to start by thanking everyone who took the time to share their thoughts and experiences with us. This survey represents an important step forward in our journey, helping us rebuild our roadmap to ensure we’re adding and maintaining features and capabilities that truly address the needs of our users. By maintaining an ongoing dialogue […]
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Date: 27 May 2021
On Optimizing Open Source Projects (The TL;DR version of this for those who just want the code, grab the fork here) Why optimize? Software is more of an art than a science. In software, there are a variety of programming languages and within each there are nearly an infinite number of ways to solve the same problem with different code. Solving the same problem on the same hardware with different solutions uses different amounts of time (and energy). The difference can be dramatic and when millions (billions?) of people are using the same software every day, the impact can be […]
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Date: 16 Sep 2016
One of our most highly requested features, the ability to upload a ZIP archive, is now live. Many users will find uploading a ZIP through our Web Interface to be far more productive than optimizing images a one-file-at-a-time – of course, if you prefer, you can still drop in as many “single files” as you like in one go. Being able to upload a ZIP to get the contained images optimized presents several advantages: The folder structure within the archive is preserved, so you won’t need to reorganise your data, which can be quite tedious. For instance, WordPress users might like to ZIP the […]
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Date: 18 May 2016
A slow-loading website will frustrate your audience and new visitors and in general will be viewed less favourably than faster-loading rivals. Why? Mostly because humans are impatient creatures and will get bored and wander off in approximately three microseconds. Here are some interesting references to support that assertion: A recent controlled study by the Financial Times, blogged about on their terrific Engine Room blog, concluded that a user’s session depth was negatively impacted no matter how small the speed delay. Session depth refers to the number of banners a user sees during a session. Since a large percentage of the […]
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Date: 01 Feb 2016
Over the holiday season we’ve been working hard to deliver several highly-requested features to our users, both small and big, and all of which are quite useful – or so we hope :). I’ll begin with the one which requires the least explanation. Maximum allowed file size has increased We have effectively doubled the maximum allowed file size for all formats, from 16MB to 32MB. We think that is more than reasonable. As always, we encourage API users who upload large files to make use of our callback_url API option, instead of letting your client wait for processing to complete. Why? So […]
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Date: 14 Nov 2015
We’ve been hard at work streamlining our front-end, among other things. New Account Section We have revamped the My Account section, improving the look and feel of the interface, as well as adding several new sections (and improving existing ones). Details below: Responsive design: We know most of you use Kraken.io from your desktop browsers. That said, we have responsivized it anyway, and you’ll find that it’s quite usable on your phones and tablets New “Webhooks” section: You can now filter your webhooks (requests which make use of callback_url) by ID and date System status: API uptime and response times, […]
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Date: 15 Sep 2014
Hi everyone, we would like to inform you about a few improvements we did last week: Both Kraken API and Web Interface now accept images up to 16MB in file size. We migrated to the new Data Center in New York City with much better connectivity and uplink redundancy. We’ve also upgraded our dedicated machines with way better CPUs so now your images will be processed even faster! Kraken API now allows you to easily convert different images from one type/format to another. If, for example, you would like to turn you transparent PNG file into a JPEG with a […]
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Date: 06 Jul 2014
At Kraken.io we are pretty good at image optimization. This time we checked how well Alexa’s Top 100 Global Sites are optimized. On the 3rd of July 2014 we crawled those 100 websites and optimized all of their images – not only those found in img src but also those from CSS files (background images). On average we were able to save 12% and 33% (lossless and lossy) with proper image optimization on Alexa’s top 100 ranked sites. Surprisingly there are only five websites in the top 100 which send WebP images to compatible browsers: Youtube.com, Yandex.ru, Ebay.com, Fifa.com and […]
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Date: 15 Apr 2014
Our Premium and Enterprise plans are now Reseller enabled. If you would like to be a reseller, or provision your customers with Kraken API credentials which you can control the price of, our Reseller Account is perfect for you. Within your Reseller Account menu you can provision (or delete) sub-accounts with individual API credentials and track their current usage. The usage of those sub-accounts will count towards your main Kraken Account’s monthly quota. At the end of your billing cycle all sub-account usages are reset, and we will send you an email with a breakdown of all the usages from […]
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Date: 18 Jan 2014
Hi everyone, We never stop improving Kraken – and as such, we have just rolled out some nice and useful new features including: UI enhancement: We have updated the UI of our Web Interfaces (both FREE and PRO) to make it lighter and sexier. New feature introduced: Chrome browser users can now drop entire folders to recursively optimize all the contained images, to any depth. Try it out on our Web Interface. Performance improvement: We have rolled out SPDY to all of our frontend machines for better performance. You can find out more about SPDY here and view the list […]
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