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 ...

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 ...

Google speeds WebP image format, brings animation support to Chrome Other browser makers are unmoved by file-size advantages of the image format, but Google is pressing ahead.

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.

WebP has much in common with JPEG, the most widely used of the web's image formats. Like JPEG, the new format is intended to be used for photos on web pages, and like JPEG, the photos in a WebP ...

The format is intended for use with lossy images as an alternative to the venerable JPEG. Google conducted a large-scale study demonstrating that WebP offers an average file size savings of 39 ...

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.

Google is on a mission to make the Web faster. One thing that slows down pageload times are fat image files. Even JPEG and PNG files can get pretty big. So Google is developing a new image format ...

About a month and a half ago, Google switched to its own WebP image format in its Google+ Android app, the company revealed at its I/O developer conference in San Francisco today. This, Stephen ...

The format is intended for use with lossy images as an alternative to the venerable JPEG. Google conducted a large-scale study demonstrating that WebP offers an average file size savings of 39 ...