ok
didnt compress as much as Jpegminilite (original= 442kb, Compress= 341kb, jpgminilite = 318kb). Admitedly, this image was complex, but the degredation was very noticable when I tried moving the compression up a notch from the 341kb result. The result using Compress was a tad darker than the jpgminilite result too, which is concerning. I got the original jpeg just right, so to have a result thats just right, Id need to over lighten the image before using Compress on it.
lwaa about Compress, v1.2.2