Jonathan — known online as JonArt (jnrt) — is a trained graphic-design technical assistant who has worked with images for the web for more than 11 years: compression, formats, load-time optimization. JNRT Pixel grew out of that hands-on practice — so the work happens locally in the browser, with no upload.
jonart.me →For more than 11 years my work has circled the same question: how do you make images as small as possible without anyone noticing? The expert articles on this site come out of that practice — and so do the JNRT Pixel tools themselves.
This page is deliberately built to work with, too: you can compress images right here — including internal, sensitive or as-yet-unpublished shots. The decisive difference from many online compressors: your images never leave your device. All processing runs locally in your browser via the Canvas API — there is no server that receives images.
Why it matters: anyone who uploads an image to someone else's server gives up control — and has no idea what happens to it there, how long it's stored, or who has access. That's exactly where a data-protection problem arises, especially with personal or confidential images. With this platform that problem does not exist — no upload, no account, no sharing. You can verify it yourself in your browser's network tab: not a single upload request goes out while compressing.
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