🖼️ WebP images
Developed by Google — compresses better than PNG or JPEG and is supported by every current browser
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About WebP images
WebP is an image format developed by Google. It supports both lossless and lossy compression and, at comparable quality, is roughly 26% smaller than PNG and 25–34% smaller than JPEG. Its MIME type is image/webp, and every current mainstream browser supports it.
Sizes from 10 KB to 100 MB are available, for confirming browser support, testing WebP conversion pipelines, and verifying image-optimisation components.
Characteristics of WebP
- Both lossless and lossy modes, chosen per use case
- Supports both transparency and animation, covering what PNG and GIF each do separately
- It uses a RIFF container, so identifying it from only the first four bytes risks confusing it with other RIFF formats
- Older server-side builds of GD or ImageMagick may not support it
For a detailed comparison of PNG, WebP and AVIF, see PNG vs WebP vs AVIF — a thorough comparison.