Common responsive image solutions tend to generate images based on a fixed set of image width values, disregarding the actual saving in file size bytes. To solve this problem, our breakpoint generator tool uses Cloudinary’s advanced algorithms to easily generate best matching breakpoints for each uploaded image.
The algorithmic concept is to find image width values that offer a significant reduction in file size. Images are analyzed to find the best breakpoints on an image by image basis, rather than creating all possible image resolutions, and enables developers to easily create ‘picture’ and ‘img’ HTML5 elements based on the calculated breakpoints.