Let's talk about the optimizeForSpeed parameter introduced in Chrome DevTools Protocol which will soon be supported by Puppeteer or even supported now at the time when you are reading the post.
The optimizeForSpeed option is introduced in an update for Chromium, allows to use of faster encoding for images, and might increase the performance of taking screenshots by a lot.
Internally, the browser will use faster encoding for PNG, JPEG and WebP formats by restricting compression to zlib q1, which is rle encoding.
Try the option yourself to see if it improves performance and doesn’t change the quality of your screenshots.
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