↓Īnd lastly, the image converted to WebP format. Now, let’s try with PNG with transparency. Google's proprietary image format WEBP is arguably better than the standard JPG or PNG format. On a side note: Here are the different filesizes if the same image was converted to the following formats: ↓įinally, the same image is converted to WebP format. Here’s a random JPEG image I grabbed from Pexels. Here are some experiments I did to find out how small an image can potentially get after they are converted from various image formats (JPEG, PNG and GIF) to WebP. The best things about claims on the Web is that we can always run experiments to check out the truthfulness and authenticity.
Here’s a refresher on WebP you should check out before we go into the fun stuff. In a nutshell, WebP is capable of significantly reducing JPEG, GIF, PNG’s image file size. WebP supports lossless transparency, i.e.WebP lossless images are potentially 25% smaller compared to PNG.WebP lossy images are potentially 25-34% smaller than JPEG.WebP adopts both lossy and lossless compression.In brief, here are some of the important stuff you need to know about this not-so-new-but-still-cool image format:
if you are a web designer, or a developer who strives to reduce and optimize your image file size, what WebP is capable of should put a smile on your face. WebP, or unofficially pronounced as weppy, is an image format introduced by Google Developers around 5 years ago.