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Seamlessly Integrating Images and Videos into Your React Native Projects

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Seamlessly Integrating Images and Videos into Your React Native Projects

Explore the effortless integration of images and videos into React Native projects with TwicPics Components, leveraging seamless lazy loading for optimal performance.

Miguel Beignon Miguel Beignon

Miguel Beignon

10 min read
A Simple Approach to LCP Image Optimization with TwicPics Components

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A Simple Approach to LCP Image Optimization with TwicPics Components

Discover an easy solution to streamline Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) image optimization in your web projects.

Miguel Beignon Miguel Beignon

Miguel Beignon

10 min read
How to simply integrate TwicPics into your Astro project

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How to simply integrate TwicPics into your Astro project

Learn how to easily and efficiently manage your images and short videos in your Astro.js projects.

Miguel Beignon Miguel Beignon

Miguel Beignon

10 min read
A Simple and Effective Way to Reframe your Images

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A Simple and Effective Way to Reframe your Images

Discover a simple and effective solution for cropping and harmonizing your images.

Miguel Beignon Miguel Beignon

Miguel Beignon

10 min read
Introducing TwicPics Flutter Widget

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Introducing TwicPics Flutter Widget

Streamline image delivery, improve performance, and enhance user experience in your Flutter app with TwicPics Flutter Widget.

Miguel Beignon Miguel Beignon

Miguel Beignon

10 min read
TwicPics joins Frontify: The leading brand management platform

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TwicPics joins Frontify: The leading brand management platform

We are thrilled to announce that TwicPics is joining Frontify and are excited about the opportunities that lie ahead.

Florent Bourgeois Florent Bourgeois

Florent Bourgeois

8 min read
Overcoming the bottlenecks of media management for designers, developers, digital managers, and business executives

Media workflow

Overcoming the bottlenecks of media management for designers, developers, digital managers, and business executives

Get insights from creative and technical teams facing the issue of media management - and see how they managed to streamline their workflow with TwicPics.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

5 min read
Discover the "refit" transformation

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Discover the "refit" transformation

TwicPics is currently working on a "refit" transformation. Find out how it works and how to use it on your web pages.

Eloïse Martin Eloïse Martin

Eloïse Martin

4 min read
A Simple Way to Display Optimal Segment from your Videos

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A Simple Way to Display Optimal Segment from your Videos

Discover how to effortlessly display the optimal segment from your videos with TwicPics Components.

Miguel Beignon Miguel Beignon

Miguel Beignon

9 min read
Responsive autoplay videos: an easy solution for a perfect integration

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Responsive autoplay videos: an easy solution for a perfect integration

A guide to responsive autoplay videos with TwicPics – an easy way to perfectly optimize loop muted videos.

Daniel Engels Daniel Engels

Daniel Engels

13 min read
A guide to real-time user monitoring tools

USER EXPERIENCE WEB PERFORMANCE

A guide to real-time user monitoring tools

Real-time user monitoring is an essential tool for businesses that want to improve the user experience on their website or application.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

5 min read
A Simple and Efficient Way to Showcase Product Details

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A Simple and Efficient Way to Showcase Product Details

Discover how to add a magnifying glass effect to your images with TwicPics Components.

Miguel Beignon Miguel Beignon

Miguel Beignon

8 min read
How to deliver optimized and perfectly sized media directly from Akeneo PIM to your websites

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How to deliver optimized and perfectly sized media directly from Akeneo PIM to your websites

This guide will walk you through the process to deliver optimized media from Akeneo PIM to your website for a better UX and improved SEO thanks to TwicPics.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

10 min read
CLS optimization and LQIP implementation

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CLS optimization and LQIP implementation

A ready to use HTML / CSS template for CLS optimization and LQIP implementation.

Miguel Beignon Miguel Beignon

Miguel Beignon

10 min read
The Optimal Ways to Embed Video According to Use Cases

USER EXPERIENCE VIDEO WEB PERFORMANCE

The Optimal Ways to Embed Video According to Use Cases

Each type of video content imposes its own requirements on the integration. This article explores the optimal options for each use case.

Daniel Engels Daniel Engels

Daniel Engels

13 min read
SXO as a new referencing strategy?

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SXO as a new referencing strategy?

Improve your website's ranking on search engine results pages thanks to Dedi Agency expertise on SXO strategy.

Florian HAMZIJ Florian HAMZIJ

Florian HAMZIJ

8 min read
How to automate your media workflow to accelerate your time-to-market

MEDIA WORKFLOW PARTNERSHIP

How to automate your media workflow to accelerate your time-to-market

From visual creation to online delivery through assets management, learn how to automate your entire media workflow with Grand Shooting, Keepeek, and TwicPics.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

7 min read
Optimize Storyblok images & videos with TwicPics

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Optimize Storyblok images & videos with TwicPics

Here is a guide to get the best of TwicPics features for your Storyblok media in no time.

Benjamin Arné Benjamin Arné

Benjamin Arné

6 min read
Discover our TwicPics App for Akeneo

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Discover our TwicPics App for Akeneo

TwicPics can generate image and video URLs on the fly for your assets stored in the Akeneo PIM in a SaaS-compliant way whenever you have this requirement.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

5 min read
How to automate responsive image resizing with NextJs and TwicPics

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How to automate responsive image resizing with NextJs and TwicPics

Learn how to leverage the layout-driven pattern to control the size (and more) of your images or videos.

Miguel Beignon Miguel Beignon

Miguel Beignon

5 min read
How to analyze web performance with free tools from Google

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How to analyze web performance with free tools from Google

A guide on accessing web performance data and insights with the free tools by Google.

Daniel Engels Daniel Engels

Daniel Engels

8 min read
Google indexing system & TwicPics Components

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Google indexing system & TwicPics Components

When it comes to SEO, it's important to understand how search engines like Google crawl and index your website. Our components for JS frameworks integrate attributes to boost your ranking.

Miguel Beignon Miguel Beignon

Miguel Beignon

5 min read
Optimizing The Image Element LCP

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Optimizing The Image Element LCP

Largest Contentful Paint is especially tricky to optimize when the LCP element is an image. Learn some of the best practices to integrate your LCP image.

Eloïse Martin Eloïse Martin

Eloïse Martin

16 min read
How to create SEO-friendly URLs for your images?

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How to create SEO-friendly URLs for your images?

How to take advantage of the TwicPics’ Catch-All Path feature to optimize your SEO?

Florent Bourgeois Florent Bourgeois

Florent Bourgeois

3 min read
How to fix the “Properly size images” issue

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How to fix the “Properly size images” issue

This guide will help you estimate the priority of “Properly size images” issue — and show how it should be addressed.

Daniel Engels Daniel Engels

Daniel Engels

10 min read
Front-end JavaScript Frameworks: history and benefits

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Front-end JavaScript Frameworks: history and benefits

Introduction to JS frameworks. Learn their history, when to use them, and how to choose among the existing ones.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

5 min read
How did Gens de Confiance reduce its bounce rate by 78%

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How did Gens de Confiance reduce its bounce rate by 78%

Charles-Axe Dein, VP of Engineering at Gens de Confiance, has answered our questions. Here are his insights on our collaboration, the solution and its benefits.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

3 min read
3 examples and 3 tips for engaging hero section videos

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3 examples and 3 tips for engaging hero section videos

The hero section video has the potential of getting people excited about what you have to offer and encourage them to click through. But delivering a clear message over a dozen of seconds video is no easy task. The present article aims to distill the recipe for hero section videos that bring in more leads and conversions.

Daniel Engels Daniel Engels

Daniel Engels

6 min read
Green IT, our vision

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Green IT, our vision

Reducing the environmental footprint of websites is becoming a priority and eco-design will be a prerequisite for all web projects in the years to come.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

4 min read
How to reduce your bounce rate and boost your results online

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How to reduce your bounce rate and boost your results online

A study of web performance impacts on business KPI illustrated by our customer results, Camif.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

3 min read
11 best-of-breed microservices to improve every step of eCommerce Buyer Journey

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11 best-of-breed microservices to improve every step of eCommerce Buyer Journey

Relying on best-of-breed microservices is an efficient strategy to keep up with the ever-evolving user expectations. We describe a stack that could boost performance across all stages of the customer lifecycle.

Daniel Engels Daniel Engels

Daniel Engels

17 min read
UX best practices from social media every website should apply

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UX best practices from social media every website should apply

How do Social Media platforms attract and retain their users? Learnings from Google, Pinterest, Instagram, and TikTok.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

5 min read
All you need to know about video codecs, containers and formats

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All you need to know about video codecs, containers and formats

Understand the fundamentals about video codecs and their relation to container and file formats.

Laurent Cazanove Laurent Cazanove

Laurent Cazanove

5 min read
Why the web needs JPEG XL

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Why the web needs JPEG XL

Our response to Chrome decision to drop support for JPEG XL.

Laurent Cazanove Laurent Cazanove

Laurent Cazanove

5 min read
Get Started With Commercetools and Contentful on React Native

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Get Started With Commercetools and Contentful on React Native

Learn to optimize your Commercetools and Contentful images using TwicPics in your React Native applications.

Laurent Cazanove Laurent Cazanove

Laurent Cazanove

10 min read
Announcing TwicPics for Videos

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Announcing TwicPics for Videos

We're launching context-aware optimization & transformation for videos in beta!

Laurent Cazanove Laurent Cazanove

Laurent Cazanove

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Jamstack for ecommerce: hype or must-have?

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Jamstack for ecommerce: hype or must-have?

The Jamstack architecture enjoys rapid adoption. What are its promises and limitations for ecommerce?

Daniel Engels Daniel Engels

Daniel Engels

10 min read
How video content improves customer engagement and helps increase ecommerce sales

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How video content improves customer engagement and helps increase ecommerce sales

Users are more likely to remember a brand when they go through an immersive experience. Thus most of the leading online stores use video content.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

10 min read
How does Google rate the UX of your website through the Core Web Vitals?

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How does Google rate the UX of your website through the Core Web Vitals?

Learn how the Google Core Web Vitals can help you deliver a better user experience on your website and how to get a SEO boost.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

9 min read
Balancing the Number of Media Variants To Optimize Performance

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Balancing the Number of Media Variants To Optimize Performance

Learn how balance variants generation and caching to get the best performance for your web pages.

Laurent Cazanove Laurent Cazanove

Laurent Cazanove

7 min read
How to reduce the environmental impact of a website while optimizing its performance?

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How to reduce the environmental impact of a website while optimizing its performance?

80% of consumers are more loyal to brands that make strong commitments to fight against their digital pollution. So what are you waiting for?

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

5 min read
Heads up: why headless is the future of ecommerce

Composable Web Ecommerce

Heads up: why headless is the future of ecommerce

We analyze the advantages and disadvantages of headless commerce using example composable commerce websites.

Daniel Engels Daniel Engels

Daniel Engels

6 min read
Get Started With Contentstack and TwicPics on Nuxt

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Get Started With Contentstack and TwicPics on Nuxt

Learn to optimize your Contentstack images using TwicPics in your Nuxt applications.

Laurent Cazanove Laurent Cazanove

Laurent Cazanove

6 min read
TwicPics is teaming up with Contentstack

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TwicPics is teaming up with Contentstack

Contentstack, the leading Enterprise Content Experience Platform, is joining forces with TwicPics to offer customers automated media optimization.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

3 min read
How Composable Architecture Is Reshaping the Web

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How Composable Architecture Is Reshaping the Web

Headless systems are changing the way we build websites. Online brands need to keep up to stay relevant in competitive markets.

Maxime Daniel Maxime Daniel

Maxime Daniel

5 min read
6 Tips to Optimize Images for SEO

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6 Tips to Optimize Images for SEO

Learn how implement image best practices for search engine optimization.

Laurent Cazanove Laurent Cazanove

Laurent Cazanove

7 min read
An interview with Dayuse: TwicPics for a better UX and SEO

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An interview with Dayuse: TwicPics for a better UX and SEO

TwicPics meets Dayuse. 1 day at the hotel, 1000 possibilities; thousands of images, one optimization solution—TwicPics!

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

2 min read
Personalized User Experience with Beyable

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Personalized User Experience with Beyable

Create a custom made visual experience for every user on your website

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

5 min read
How to find the Largest Contentful Paint element? A complete guide.

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How to find the Largest Contentful Paint element? A complete guide.

Learn to use the browser's Developer Tools to identify the LCP (Largest Contentful Paint) element.

Laurent Cazanove Laurent Cazanove

Laurent Cazanove

5 min read
Discover Sylius

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Discover Sylius

Want to know how to make your ecommerce fit like a glove? Meet Sylius!

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

2 min read
Introducing TwicPics Components

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Introducing TwicPics Components

A deep dive into how TwicPics Components provide a low-code way to enhance the native HTML image and video tags with must-have features on nowadays websites.

Miguel Beignon Miguel Beignon

Miguel Beignon

15 min read
Blurred Placeholders

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Blurred Placeholders

The Blurred Preview feature by TwicPics enables to display a very lightweight SVG blurred version as a placeholder.

Florent Bourgeois Florent Bourgeois

Florent Bourgeois

2 min read
SEO optimization for responsive images

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SEO optimization for responsive images

A new attribute to let you specify the unique version of an image to send to search engines' crawlers.

Daniel Engels Daniel Engels

Daniel Engels

3 min read
Images and Core Web Vitals

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Images and Core Web Vitals

Ensuring images load quickly while not causing layout shifts to the page will help ensure you're delivering a great user experience.

Florent Bourgeois Florent Bourgeois

Florent Bourgeois

5 min read
Key indicators you should track to speed up your website

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Key indicators you should track to speed up your website

What if load time was a website's number one priority? Here's some of the key things to watch if you want to speed up your website.

Camille Adamczyk Camille Adamczyk

Camille Adamczyk

2 min read
Real-time responsive images for WordPress

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Real-time responsive images for WordPress

TwicPics just launched its image optimization plugin on WordPress

Eloïse Martin Eloïse Martin

Eloïse Martin

2 min read
Making the web as wide as the world - Can web images make the world a little greener?

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Making the web as wide as the world - Can web images make the world a little greener?

Is it possible to reduce emissions through less data consumption?

Philippe Vella Philippe Vella

Philippe Vella

7 min read
We've closed a funding round to keep building responsive images as a service

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We've closed a funding round to keep building responsive images as a service

TwicPics has raised €1.2 million to keep building their responsive-image-as-a-service platform and save the internet from web bloat

Florent Bourgeois Florent Bourgeois

Florent Bourgeois

2 min read
How 5G Will Change Websites and Apps Management for E-business?

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How 5G Will Change Websites and Apps Management for E-business?

Does 5G launch imply it is not anymore necessary to optimize websites?

Vincent Birobent Vincent Birobent

Vincent Birobent

2 min read
How we Pictured TwicPics

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How we Pictured TwicPics

Finally a solution to stop struggling with responsive images.

Florent Bourgeois Florent Bourgeois

Florent Bourgeois

5 min read
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The All-In-One Toolbox For Your Medias

The simplest, most powerful way to tackle responsive images & videos