The following is a comparison of the results of downloading images from the 3 most popular social media today, there are Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. To get accurate results, of course, when uploading, make sure to use the same image source. The reason for the different images is because each social media has its own compression system to reduce image size but maintain quality.
Download Sample
The sample download in this post is the latest photo post from Pokimane, a Gamer / Twitch Streamer, which every time a new image is uploaded, it goes directly to these 3 popular social media, as well as inspiring me to make this comparison post. Let's take a sample image from the following links and try it. compare one by one.
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/pokimanelol/status/1484996474194653187
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/CZC___wv8yJ/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pokimane/posts/534125594739830
Each post above contains a total of 4 images, and we will take one sample, for comparison. All the processes below are done with a desktop browser, Google Chrome on Mac OS.
How To Download Image on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook
How to download images on Twitter. Twitter provides a full size image ready for download, by going to the tweet detail page, right-clicking save image as.
By default Instagram web doesn't render images with <img /> tags so users can't download them directly like on Twitter by right-clicking save as. The solution is enough to just inspect the element, just take the url for the full size.
Facebook web itself, provides a download menu to download images so it's the easiest.
Download Results Comparisson
Resolution Comparison
Twitter's resolution currently has the largest resolution with the following comparison:
- Twitter: 1440 x 1800
- Facebook: 864 x 1080
- Instagram: 1080 x 1350
From the above resolution it is safe that no cropping occurs because the length and width are the same, it is different because there is a resizing of each social media that has a compression system.
Images with the highest resolution are obtained by Twitter and the smallest resolution are obtained by Facebook
Size comparison
The sizes obtained are as follows:
- Twitter: 285,861 bytes
- Facebook: 92,325 bytes
- Instagram: 189,783 bytes
In accordance with the resolution obtained by Twitter with the largest size and Facebook with the smallest size
Quality Comparison
For this quality comparison, I only use eyeball based on eye sight, so the results can be relative based on each person. For pictures that are compared in a row, you can see in the picture above.
The picture above is when I zoom in to see the details of the hair picture, and you can see Twitter is more detailed, according to the size and resolution that is bigger.
Conclussion
From the experiment above, it seems that Twitter doesn't do much compression so it can still get a bigger image resolution and bigger size. While Facebook has the smallest resolution and smallest size, this is also comparable to the quality you get.
Original Post by Yussan Blog https://blog.yussan.id/2022/01/membandingkan-hasil-download-gambar.html