Nice that they achieved this. However, focusing on the logo size is misplaced in my book, when the average page served to mobile devices today can hit a meg or thereabouts, with scripts and resources being pulled from tens of sources. Gmail itself can be pretty heavy. The google news page is horrendous to use on iOS or Android.
It would be better if they focus on these issues, as well as power efficiency on portable devices. I can live with 305 bytes or 30500.
I don't know how much they focused on size, but this could very well be a token showing that they're heading towards getting everything smaller and more efficient. Even a tiny efficiency increase means lots of power reduction in their end.
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11 u/arcticblue 04 Sep 2015 14:16
More like "How the first letter of the new logo can be just 305 bytes"
2 u/PolishPandaBear 04 Sep 2015 13:19
They still use a PNG version anyway, which is over 12kB.
0 u/Smallxmac 04 Sep 2015 16:16
Yeah, though in this day in age it does not even matter. That is still a small size.
1 u/beavis 04 Sep 2015 19:02
Nice that they achieved this. However, focusing on the logo size is misplaced in my book, when the average page served to mobile devices today can hit a meg or thereabouts, with scripts and resources being pulled from tens of sources. Gmail itself can be pretty heavy. The google news page is horrendous to use on iOS or Android.
It would be better if they focus on these issues, as well as power efficiency on portable devices. I can live with 305 bytes or 30500.
1 u/multidan 04 Sep 2015 21:56
I don't know how much they focused on size, but this could very well be a token showing that they're heading towards getting everything smaller and more efficient. Even a tiny efficiency increase means lots of power reduction in their end.
1 u/Vailx 11 Sep 2015 21:23
"How vector graphics are more efficient than raster graphics". The 1980s called, they want their revolutionary tech back.
0 u/starrychloe 11 Sep 2015 03:44
The current logo is 13.2kb https://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/images/branding/googlelogo/2x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png
If they can get to 305, I'm sure they'd be using it.
1 u/svipbo [OP] 11 Sep 2015 03:49
Something I read said it was just for low bandwidth connections, or only for certain browsers or devices. Can't confirm if that's true though.