Google WebP Format Instead Of PNG

Google Now Uses Its Own WebP Format Instead Of PNGs In The Chrome Web Store | TechCrunch: "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. Using WebP, Google says, results in images that are significantly smaller than those encoded in the far more popular PNG format. After introducing the new format in Chrome, Picasa and Gmail in 2011, Google today announced that it has also started using it in its Chrome Web Store. The Chrome Web Store is obviously a good target for WebP, given that its users are likely using Chrome. The only other browser that currently supports the format is Opera."

Google touts benefits of WebP image format | Internet & Media - CNET News: " . . . Google, which controls both ends of the Internet connection for a significant fraction of online activity, has a lot of power over the Internet. A little image-format tweak to one of its Web sites shows just how much. Few others have expressed much enthusiasm for its WebP image format, an offshoot of the WebM project to promote a royalty-free video codec. Google asserts that its smaller file sizes would unburden networks and help Web pages load faster, but as Mozilla likes to point out when grappling with such matters, adding a new format to the Web means adding a requirement that all browsers must support it in perpetuity. . . . "

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