Blogger’s Free Image Storage Resizes Pictures To Make Them Bigger

Amit Agarwal found a weird one: When you upload images to Blogger, the free uploading and storage service delivers you two versions of the image, a full size version and a smaller 400 pixel wide version. Blogger will do this for you automatically, so long as the image is larger than 400 pixels, even if it is only slightly larger, and that is where the problem is. Google’s resizer is not well optimized, which means a 28kb 450 pixel image gets resized to a 64kb 400 pixel image.
That’s strange, and anyone can see why. Google should have left well enough alone, checking the final file size as well as the image width, and determine the new version isn’t worth using. Google gives away the bandwidth and storage for free, so it has a vested interest in improving this.
Of course, this all underscores how poor most […]

Original post by Nathan Weinberg