Si are users of internet connection through broadband either for portability or because the companies simply do not have cable coverage in their area, they will know that they must be quite cautious with the use of this.
This is largely due to either the high costs that can be incurred in the end on the invoice or because they are limited to X amount of GB. That is why they make use of a bandwidth meter among other types of applications.
But in this case we are going to present you today an excellent extension for your web browser with which you can save bandwidth.
Compress requests for your website images with Bandwidth Hero
Bandwidth Hero is a browser extension for Firefox and Chrome web browsers that can greatly reduce your use of the Internet.t by compressing embedded images on web pages as you access them.
When you open a web page in your web browser, the links of all the images embedded in it are replaced with the links that run through the Bandwidth Hero image compressor server.
This server compresses all images to reduce their size and this is how Bandwidth Hero can reduce your data usage.
This extension is especially useful if you are using a limited data plan on your 4G LTE broadband.
This proxy server retrieves every image your browser requests, compresses it into a low resolution WebP / JPEG format, and then sends it directly to you.
I should mention that the images it compresses it does so quite aggressively, and sometimes in black and white, but you should know what settings can be changed quite easily.
As stated by the creators of Bandwidth Hero, the extension we are talking about is capable of reducing the weight of the images by up to 50-70%, which means significant data savings.
Bandwidth Hero's compression service is responsible for analyzing the original image, compressing it and showing us the image with the reduced weight.
How to get Bandwidth Hero?
This extension is available for Google Chrome and Firefox, so they can search for the extension within the application stores of these browsers.
After installing the Bandwidth Hero extension in your web browser, the first thing they need to do is configure the Bandwidth Hero compression server in the settings.
Setting Bandwidth Hero
To do this, you need to create a free account on the Heroku.com cloud hosting.
After this, you can follow the link to implement Heroku on the github web page of Bandwidth Hero
They must assign a unique name to their application, choose a data center (US or Europe) and click on deploy.
In a few seconds, the application will be ready: copy the URL of the application from the links «View application or Open application».
The URL will be in the format https: // [name of your application] .herokuapp.com
Once you have the Bandwidth Hero compressor app, you can enter its URL in the Bandwidth Hero extension settings.
You can open these settings by clicking on the Bandwidth Hero icon and clicking Configure the data compression service.
Then they need to insert the URL of the application in the text box of the data compression service and a check mark will appear next to it indicating that the service is working fine.
After these tedious steps, you are good to go.
Now if you visit a web page, you will notice that all the images are being compressed.
If they have selected the option to convert all images to grayscale, all color images will be compressed with the grayscale option, making them even smaller in terms of file size and will cause the web page to shrink. charge faster.
You can see how much data Bandwidth Hero has saved and how many images have been processed so far by clicking on its icon.