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 ...

Faster loading times can really change how people use a site. They are less likely to leave right away. This activity boosts the metrics that search engines care about. Because of these perks, WebP is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...