Use Google's Image caching/optimization proxy to resize an image

Google Image Resize Proxy

(function () {
    var img = document.createElement('img');
        path = encodeURIComponent('https://s3.amazonaws.com/llama0/burningfiremonkey.gif'),
        width = 600,
        refresh = 2592000;
        
    img.src = 'https://images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=' + path + '&resize_w=' + width + '&container=focus&refresh=' + refresh;
    document.body.appendChild(img);

}());