Image formats rarely become a topic of discussion unless something breaks or slows down. As websites compete on speed, usability, and mobile performance, image optimization has moved from a technical ...

Microsoft is also thought to be testing video backgrounds, but that's still missing from the latest preview build.

Switching just one Google site to its own image format saves the company terabytes of network traffic a day. Maybe showing it off will help it find some allies, too. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET ...

Google is rolling out its WebP image format across its wide range of web sites including Google Play and YouTube. This unified image format offers both (animated) lossless and lossy encoding and thus ...

While downloading images from the internet, you may have come across one of the relatively newer image formats called WebP.

It's a major endorsement for the file format, but some social-network members are upset to have lost their flexible, sharable JPEGs. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

One of the biggest challenges of the web is the adoption rate of new technologies. It’s not enough to develop a great idea, a new format or a technology in general if the majority of people can’t use ...

You might have noticed with macOS Big Sur that downloading images in browsers like Safari now happens in a new webp format. Read along for a couple of ways to convert ...

Anyone trying to save images from websites these days is increasingly stumbling across the new WebP image format. But what is it actually? WebP was developed by Google to replace the outdated JPG, PNG ...

The WebP image format developed by Google for the past eight years has found a home this week in Microsoft's Edge browser, and will also be added in Firefox next year. WebP is a lossy and lossless ...

WebP is a popular yet less used image format, which is being managed by Google. Although it has been a few years since Google launched this image format, not many sites have adopted it. However, WebP ...

You may have noticed an online image format appearing in your browser lately, especially if you have a blog or like to save images you find online. It’s called WebP ...