image proxy

From IndieWeb


An image proxy is a service that fetches and re-serves images from a new URL, used by IndieWeb sites to provide better performance, fidelity, and/or reliability of images embedded in posts.

Why

Image proxies can help website performance, customize images for their page context, and improve image viewing reliability with the following techniques:

  • resizing, reformatting, cropping, filtering or otherwise modifying images before serving inside a page
  • avoiding mixed content warnings when serving images from other sites
  • caching content that may disappear in the future

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