Google has introduced a new image format to help speed up the performance of websites. WebP (pronounced “weppy”) reduces the file size of images by 40 percent, the company claims. Images make up 65 ...

Google is obsessed with speeding up the Web, and the company hopes sprucing up its image format will help. It's got a lot of convincing to do, though. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Google's image format started as a rival to JPEG, but new features mean it could take on Portable Network Graphics, too. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

The WebP image format developed by Google is highly efficient in terms of compression and can display images at a reduced size of around 33% compared to formats like JPEG or PNG. Despite being in use ...

As part of its self-imposed mission to make the web faster, Google has rolled its own image format. It's called WebP, and it's based on open source technology. Google launched the initiative Thursday ...

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Google has figured out another use for the technology it acquired when it bought video compression specialist On2 - and this time it's gunning to replace JPEG. Announced yesterday, the company is ...

An increasing number of websites are adopting 'WebP' and 'AVIF' as the format for images inserted into pages. However, many image viewers and image editing software do not support WebP or AVIF, ...

It is one of the image format WebP (Weppi) is, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, except that correspond to the Microsoft Edge, Opera, Apple conference for developers ' WWDC2020 is possible to cope with ...