WebP 101
Basic knowledge about WebP
Features of WebP
History of WebP
Learn more about WebP
Advantages of WebP
Disadvantages of WebP
Quality of WebP
Technology for WebP
Lossy and lossless compression of WebP
FAQs about WebP
What is WebP?
How to view WebP?
How can you convert a WebP image to an image in other formats?
Is there any free WebP converter you can use?
Techinical FAQs about WebP
What is an optimal quality value for WebP?
How can you upload a WebP image on websites?
What is the maximum resolution and color depth for WebP?
What should you remember when converting an image to a WebP image?
Disadvantages of WebP
- Currently, not all web browsers are compatible with the WebP format.
- An animated WebP image requires higher CPU usage than a GIF image does.
- Many websites have no support for uploading a WebP image yet.
- There are not many image editor programs compatible with the WebP format.
Thanks to the update of iOS 14 in November 2020, most major web browsers allow you to view WebP images. But Internet Explorer and the old version of Safari (iOS 13 or earlier) do not.
The decoding of a lossy WebP image may take 2.2 times longer than that of a GIF image. If the image is lossless-compressed, it takes 1.5 times longer.
Popular image formats including GIF, JPG, and PNG have developed a long time ago, and they are well-supported on almost all websites. But uploading a WebP image is not available on quite a number of websites yet.
Honeycam is one of the rare editor programs which allows you to edit animated images and save them as WebP files.
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