Top 3 C image-optimization Projects

mozjpeg

19 5,349 6.2 C

Improved JPEG encoder.

Project mention: WebP is so great except it's not | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-15

[2] https://github.com/mozilla/mozjpeg

pngquant

5 5,006 6.0 C

Lossy PNG compressor — pngquant command based on libimagequant library

Project mention: Random Code Inspiration Volume 2 | dev.to | 2023-10-01

image-shrinker is a simple, easy to use open source tool for shrinking images. Under the hood it uses pngquant, mozjpg, SVGO, and gifsicle. You can also install these tools individually if you need to compress some images. I often use pngquantafter exporting PNGs for web projects from Figma or similar tools. I literally run it like this:

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
jpegoptim

2 1,510 6.0 C

jpegoptim - utility to optimize/compress JPEG files

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2023-12-15.