Google announces a new image format "WebP" to replace JPEG, file size is small and web display speeds up

Image format that is now used everywhere on the InternetJPEGHowever, as a new image format that Google replaces JPEG, "WebPWe announced.

The file size is small, it is possible to speed up the display of the web, and in fact "How much image quality and file size will it be?There are also galleries published such as.

Details are as below.
Chromium Blog: WebP, a new image format for the Web

According to Google's official blog, the company seems to have focused on "images" used for web pages as part of the efforts we have made to further speed up the display of the web.

The image occupies about 65% of the data amount of the web page, and in particular in the environment where the communication speed like the mobile line is limited, it will markedly deteriorate the performance of the web display.

And it seems that he has developed "WebP" as a new image format which replaces JPEG among other image formats such as JPEG, PNG and GIF which are used everywhere on the web.

"WebP" was created for the still picture based on the company's compressed format of the open source video codec "VP 8", and in fact the image file of JPEG, PNG and GIF format is "WebP" When it was recompressed in the format, it is said that especially when JPEG format files are recompressed, the effect is large, and it is said that on average it succeeded in compressing the file size by 39%.

Image quality comparison of "JPEG" and "WebP" provided by Google. Although it seems that the image quality does not seem to be much different, you can see that the file size when saving in WebP format is getting smaller.
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In addition, in addition to tackling so that Google's rendering engine "WebKit" of its browser "Google Chrome" can support "WebP"Provide conversion tool for developersI am trying to get feedback from the developer community.