Optimization
Quality and profiles
Choose how aggressively Inverity optimizes.
Inverity holds visual quality by default. Profiles let you set the balance between file size and quality for your whole workspace, or per connected source.
What a profile changes
A profile shifts the target that the quality check aims at. A more aggressive profile accepts a slightly lower fidelity target in exchange for smaller files; a more conservative profile demands closer fidelity and accepts smaller savings.
What a profile never does is disable the check. Under any profile, Inverity still refuses to ship a file that is visibly worse than your original — it skips the asset instead. The profile moves the threshold; it doesn't remove it.
Setting a profile
Set your profile in the dashboard under the connected source's settings. Because profiles are per source, you can run different policies side by side:
| Source | Sensible profile | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing site CMS | Aggressive | Page speed is the point; imagery is decorative |
| Product catalog | Default | Shoppers zoom into product images |
| DAM master library | Conservative | Assets get re-edited and re-exported downstream |
| Docs / support screenshots | Default or conservative | Text legibility degrades visibly |
When to adjust
Choose smaller files when the media is for web delivery — marketing imagery, thumbnails, blog headers, hero images — and load time matters more than pixel fidelity nobody will inspect.
Choose preserve detail when the asset is a source of truth: product photography, print-bound artwork, archives, or anything a designer may open and re-edit later.
Leave the default alone when you're not sure. The default is tuned to be the answer for most content, and you can change it later without any loss — see Re-running optimization.
Profiles apply going forward
Changing a profile affects assets processed from that point on. It does not retroactively re-process anything. To apply a new profile to existing assets, re-run optimization on the folder or collection from the dashboard.
How to judge a profile change
Don't judge it on the savings percentage. Judge it on the output:
- Pick five assets that represent the hardest content in the library — the screenshot with small text, the photo with a smooth sky gradient, the logo on a coloured background.
- Process them under the new profile.
- Open the optimized file and the original side by side, at 100% zoom, on a good display.
If you can't tell them apart, the profile is fine for that content. If you can, move back one step. Gradients and text are where aggressive settings show first.
Interaction with plans
Profiles and plans are independent controls. The profile sets the fidelity target; your plan determines how many engines Inverity can try in order to hit that target.
On a higher plan, an aggressive profile tends to produce fewer skips rather than different-looking output, because there are more engines available to find a result that satisfies the check.