We are optimizing the display of all advertisements to make load times as fast as possible without sacrificing image quality.
In the last Product Update, we let you know that we were doing something similar for /p pages. Optimizing advertisement displays across the network are the next step towards eliminating unnecessarily large image loads and speeding up the sites (even more).
This display optimization occurs automatically - so there's nothing new that you have to do when uploading your ads (aside from observing the recommended image protocol).
You may have noticed that we're doing a lot of work to speed up the sites.
Check out how our server response times have decreased over the fall:
And check out the impact on average page loads:
We're adding Neighborhoods to Radmin.
You will soon be able to create and edit Neighborhoods in Radmin...
... so that you can more efficiently sort your Venues by Neighborhood in Venue Beta Search:
We're adding 'Create a new scraper for this venue' buttons to Radmin's Venue Beta Search
By popular request! These buttons will take you directly to a screen where you can create a new scraper for the particular venue.
We're adding "Through (End Date)" flags to ongoing events that are shown in the main listings.
Prior to this update, these flags only appeared for ongoing events inside the ongoing and repeating event widgets.
We're adding a LearnStuff link to Radmin.
We fixed a bug that was preventing ongoing and repeating events from correctly appearing in merge search.
A note that merge search results are capped at 20 results.
Another note that ongoing events should always show up in merge search as long as their end dates are either today or some time in the future.
We ensured that Instagram links will correctly display on the front end if entered into Radmin.
Tip of the Week: JPGs vs. PNGs
You have the option of saving an image as a .jpg or a .png. How do you know which format to choose? Which of the two is better for your site?
If your image does not have transparency, then the answer is JPG.
PNG is a lossless compression format - which means that saving an image as a PNG compresses the image without any quality loss. However, the quality 'lost' when saving images in the JPG format is generally imperceptible to the human eye - and can usually reduce image sizes by up to 75%.So, stick with the smaller, more efficient JPG. And remember: the smaller your images, the more quickly your site loads.
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