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I'm not the one stripping the EXIF, and the options of the program are essentially: "remove all metadata and compress for delivery over the wire" or "do nothing".
I do enjoy a bandwidth bill, and so we will continue to optimise for fewest bytes over the wire.
In my tests on the more extreme end, a 30 MB image can be reduced to 17 MB. But that only happens when all metadata is stripped, and a webp is used instead of a jpeg. When a single image can be reduced by almost half... then we are always going to do this.
The options I have:
- Strip metadata
- Strip metadata and compress
- Strip metadata and compress and use webp where it is safe to
There is no option that preserves metadata and yet compresses.
- Strip metadata
Could you keep just the IPTC ?