Elevated X Boosts Site Speeds via Image Optimization

LOS ANGELES—Pay site CMS software provider Elevated X has announced a new feature that offers site owners the ability to transform existing JPEG image files, reducing their file size from five to 10 percent, with no perceptible drop in image quality. In business since 2006, Elevated X’s pay site management software powers more than 2,000 adult sites, has been nominated for more than a dozen industry awards, including multiple YNOT and XBiz awards wins for “Software Company of the Year.” “The conversion is so precise that the image output is identical on a per-pixel level,” says Elevated X CEO AJ Hall of the process that compresses images without a noticeable degradation in quality. “Anyone using Elevated X to manage their websites can log into their CMS and batch convert all their existing JPEG files within a specific folder regardless of whether or not the CMS manages them.” This means that Elevated X is able to optimize any JPEG image on a client’s server even if those files have not been imported into the CMS. This is ideal for images used on pay site tours and affiliate promotional galleries and other promo pages. Hall notes that for JPEG files generated from content already imported into the Elevated X system, the results are even more impressive, offering file size reduction of up to 35% with no visible loss of image quality. “From a website performance standpoint, the benefits are massive,” said Hall. “Tour design files such as JPEG logos and graphics can be reduced up to 10 percent, while tour update preview images and thumbnails can be reduced by as much as 35 percent. “This reduction in image file size leads to faster load times with potential load speed reductions of upwards of 1/3 compared to previous images,” he added. “The impact this will have on mobile pay sites is huge.” Hall says that he is excited about the site performance aspect as well as potential web hosting cost savings for larger pay site operations. For more information or to see a live software demo, go here.