I Compressed 1000 Images in the Browser — What I Learned About Client-Side Performance

Last week I needed to compress 1000 product photos for a site migration. Uploading them to a cloud compressor would take hours and cost money. So I built a browser-local compressor and ran the benchmark myself.

The Setup

I built — SVG vector conversion with batch processing

Client-side processing is fast enough for production use. Don't upload files you can process locally.