

WebP for Chrome & Opera - JPEG for all other browsers. Looking at the statistics of your own websites lets you know whether it will be worth it for your project to include images in two formats. At the moment there are two browsers that officially support the format, but soon there will be three with WebP support - if Firefox sticks to their plan. Nevertheless, it is worth it to deliver images in WebP format to the browsers named above. Internet Explorer and Safari are left out completely. Firefox has announced support for WebP images in the future and it is still being discussed in this thread. According to, at this time, Opera and Chrome support the modern image format WebP. Browser support is the biggest current disadvantage of the WebP technology. Sounds promising: higher quality than JPEGs, with much smaller files.

WebP: reductions in file size of up to 80% are commonly achievable. The WebP format is a sophisticated alternative method for convenient image compression that is now entering the market. JPEG is considered outdated and too inefficient. Web users well-versed in technology have surely heard of WebP - an image format developed by Google to ensure superior compression of photos.
