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Small fixes that compound into faster sites

Notes from the Sukat team on image compression, Core Web Vitals, and the small fixes that add up. Written for developers and site owners who'd rather ship a fix than read an essay.

A slow site becoming a fast one Animation: a performance score climbs from 42 to 97 as the ring fills from red to green, and the LCP and FCP metrics flip from poor to good. 42 68 88 97 PERFORMANCE LCP4.2 s LCP1.8 s FCP3.4 s FCP1.6 s
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Practical, no-essay write-ups on the image-side of web performance.

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Photo & Signature Size for Indian Exam Forms (UPSC, SSC)

Resize your photo and signature to the exact KB limits set by UPSC, SSC, IBPS, and admission portals — in your browser, no upload, no software.

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How to Remove EXIF Data From Photos Before Sharing

Your photos hide GPS coordinates, device details, and timestamps. Here's how to remove EXIF data before sharing — in your browser, nothing uploaded.

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How to Resize a Photo for a Visa or Passport Application

Visa and passport portals reject photos for the wrong file size. Resize and compress to the exact KB and pixels they require — in your browser.

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Social Media Image Sizes for 2026: Every Platform

The 2026 guide to social media image sizes for Instagram, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, TikTok, and Pinterest — plus the file-size limit each one enforces.

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Oversized Images: How to Find and Fix Them in 2026

Images served larger than they display are the web's most common speed bug. Here's how to find oversized images and resize them — free, in your browser.

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AVIF vs WebP vs JPEG: Which Image Format in 2026

WebP, AVIF, or JPEG? A 2026 guide to picking the right image format for any use — and converting between them free in your browser, no upload.

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Why Your iPhone Photos Won't Upload

iPhones save photos as HEIC, which many upload forms reject. Convert HEIC to JPG and compress it to the exact KB size you need — right in your browser.

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Run your own on-page SEO audit in 2026

A practical on-page SEO audit you can run yourself in 2026 — titles, headings, links, images, and schema, plus what AI search now expects.

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Alt text is how AI search sees your images

Over half of websites still ship images without alt text. Why that now costs AI search visibility — and how to find every missing one on a page in seconds.

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How to Audit Your Page's Images for Speed and SEO

Oversized, heavy, and alt-less images quietly hurt page speed and SEO. Here's how to audit every image on a page free in your browser, and fix the issues.

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Open Graph Images: Why Your Shared Links Look Broken

When a page lacks an Open Graph image, social platforms show a random thumbnail or a blank box. Here's how link previews work and how to check yours.

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How to Check That a Web Page Matches Your Source Document

Sukat DocMatch compares every paragraph of your document against the live page and flags anything missing, altered, duplicated, or out of order.

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Sukat vs TinyPNG: When You Need an Exact File Size

TinyPNG compresses for you; Sukat lets you set an exact KB size and never uploads your image. A fair comparison and when to use each.

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Why your OG image breaks on every platform

Every platform crops, compresses, and resizes your OG image differently. Why one image can't serve them all — and what to ship instead.

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Why your Cumulative Layout Shift won't drop below 0.1

CLS is almost always images without dimensions. Why the browser can't reserve space for your images, and how to fix it without a CMS rebuild.

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Sukat Inspector: Stop Hunting for Oversized Images in DevTools

Sukat Inspector audits every image on any page — dimensions, file size, format, alt text — and hands the heavy ones to Sukat to compress. Free, no upload.

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Why your First Contentful Paint won't drop below 3 seconds

FCP isn't usually where developers think the problem is. Here's why images slow it down, even when they're below the fold, and how to fix it.

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Why Largest Contentful Paint is almost always an image problem

If your LCP score won't move, your hero image is almost certainly the bottleneck. Here's what to do about it.

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