Pngcrush just isn’t a very good PNG optimizer. Using OptiPNG or TruePNG, I managed to reduce the file size of your example PNG file by about 26% (from 33.5 KiB to 24.6 KiB).
Posted Mar 7, 2013 18:50 UTC (Thu) by huftis (subscriber, #58900)
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And running PNGZopfli on the result of the TruePNG output gives a file size of only 23.4 KiB. Note that this is with the various max settings of both TruePNG and PNGZopfli, and running this takes a long time, but even with the (very fast) default settings we get a comparable file size – 23.5 KiB.