Case Study: Nikkei achieves faster page loads and smarter image cropping with imgix

Nikkei accelerates page loading by 1 second, reduces image sizing by 37%, and achieves more accurate face cropping

Nikkei, one of the world’s largest financial news websites, needed a better way to handle more than 5 million images per month across devices while improving load speed, image quality, and face-aware cropping. The company had been using in-house tools and CDNs, but wanted a more robust image processing solution than its own workflow could provide, and turned to imgix Rendering API.

By partnering with imgix, Nikkei streamlined image resizing, compression, format changes, and intelligent cropping, while keeping control through its existing AWS S3-based workflow. The results included up to 37.7% smaller iOS image files, up to 24.7% smaller Chrome image files, and average page load times that were 1.1 seconds faster, helping Nikkei deliver richer images with lower latency.

Nikkei

Takayasu-San

Digital Strategy and Planning Manager