Ladies and Gentlemen, let me ask you a question about images resolution: 4K monitors are a bit expensive for masses still, but in just a year we'll see a boom of them. Another thing is that more and more people surf the Internet from mobile devices with their crappy little resolutions. I run a small site where I post photos from my DSLR. Currently what I do is resizing them to the size of 1200x900, to make them still big for those folks who wanna click on them and admire their beauty in bigger size and my responsible WP team does all the work to fit them on any screen on crappy mobile internet bandwidth. However the internet speeds are growing and I start thinking that it might be wise strategy to upload much larger images, thought that will result in sacrificing loading speed at mobiles. What strategy is best for a niche like this, how do you think? Should I look for compression and super-responsible layouts? Or should I quit caring for those big-screen guys since everything is becoming mobile? Does the era of higher speeds and 4K screens influence your image handling in any way? Thanks for any advice!
Maybe you should use a smaller size photo for display, and face your site towards speed, giving the option for the users to chose what resolution they want.
Yes, I agree. You should include multiple resolutions and focus on speed first of all. Also, website speeds influence ranking, anothing important thing to think about.
For sure, go for speed, but the question's interesting. I'm not that optimistic about 4K coming very soon, but it really looks like in couple years we'll have to re-upload our images at larger sizes and become even more "responsive" than we've got already.
4k will eventually come to curved Phone screen and when the material to produce curved LCD becomes cheap we see bunch of 4k phones in the market, but today we need better ISP speed which needs up gradation seriously.