What is the effect of encoding an image in base64?

Question

If I convert an image (jpg or png) to base64, then will it be bigger, or will it have the same size? How much greater will it be?

Is it recommended to use base64 enc

Answer 1

It will definitely cost you more space & bandwidth if you want to use base64 encoded images. However if your site has a lot of small images you can decrease the page loading time by encoding your images to base64 and placing them into html. In this way, the client browser wont need to make a lot of connections to the images, but will have them in html.