A practical doctrine for serving smaller site images on mobile without losing canonical originals, metadata compatibility, or repeatable QA.
Large source artwork is useful for design flexibility, but it should not be sent wholesale to every browser slot. When a 1500-pixel PNG is rendered into a 220-pixel icon slot, mobile visitors pay for bytes they never use.
The right fix is not to delete the original art. The right fix is to keep it as the canonical source and generate delivery-sized variants for the page.
Solace now generates multiple widths for key public images and serves them with responsive markup. Browsers can choose a smaller asset for narrow screens and a sharper one for larger or high-density displays.
We also kept Open Graph and Twitter images on their original PNG or JPG URLs so social crawlers still receive broadly compatible files.
This is not only about speed scores. Smaller image payloads reduce mobile friction, improve first-load behavior, and make the site easier to audit because the image pipeline is deterministic rather than hand-tuned page by page.
That matches the larger Solace pattern: keep the source of truth stable, generate the runtime artifacts mechanically, and verify the result in a real browser.
