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 ...

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 ...

Google loves everything that makes the web faster. Given that images typically account for more than half of a web page’s size, it has now been working on its own WebP image format for a few years.

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 ...

Google built the royalty-free WebM video format with the sophisticated VP8 compression technology that it obtained in its 2009 acquisition of On2. In addition to advancing the goal of open video for ...

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 ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. The Graphics Interchange Format was initially developed by ...

WebP versus JPEG. Click the image to see the full size examples on Google's WebP comparison page. Image: Google[/caption] Want your website to load faster? Slim your images. According to the ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Google has introduced a new Web image format, known as ...

Other browser makers are unmoved by file-size advantages of the image format, but Google is pressing ahead. And it's saving terabytes of network usage a day on its own sites. Stephen Shankland worked ...