WebP vs. JPG: The Battle for Speed

Google's WebP format has finally reached widespread adoption, supported by all major browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge). But is it really worth converting your entire image library?

Compression Efficiency

WebP images are, on average, 26% smaller in size compared to PNGs and 25-34% smaller than comparable JPEG images. This reduction comes often with better visual quality because WebP supports both lossy and lossless compression.

Transparency Support

Before WebP, if you wanted transparency, you had to use PNG (heavy file size) or GIF (poor color support). WebP gives you full alpha channel transparency with a fraction of the weight.

SEO Benefits

Google explicitly recommends "serving images in next-gen formats" like WebP to pass Core Web Vitals. Faster loading sites rank higher. Period.