While downloading images from the internet, you may have come across one of the relatively newer image formats called WebP. It is a file format launched by Google back in 2010. What makes WebP ...

It performs better than traditional JPEG files and newer formats like HEIC, AVIF, and WebP in several ways. JPEG XL keeps sharp images and vibrant colors despite having smaller file sizes.

While preserving quality and resolution, Google’s engineers figured out a way to compress images so to make them even smaller than usual .JPEG files. About the technical details: WebP uses predictive ...

To be fair, it’s only the most recent improvement to JPEG, with JPEG XT being introduced in 2015 and JPEG XL in 2021 to mostly deafening silence, right along that other, better new image format ...