What is WebP?
WebP(pronounced as “weppy”) is a method of lossy compression that can be used on photographic images. WebP offers compression that has shown 39.8% more byte-size efficiency than JPEG for the same quality in a large scale study of 900,000 images on the Web. The degree of compression is adjustable so a user can choose the trade-off between file size and image quality.
WebP, which was derived from Google’s WebM, a movie/video format, is currently unsupported by all Web browsers, even Google Chrome. For present browsers to display WebP images, they have to be displayed as a PNG graphic first. Richard Rabbat, lead product manager for Google’s “make the Web faster” program, however, said that they’ll be rolling out WebP support for Chrome within a few weeks.
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