WebP is such a goated format

I have been toying around with WebP for a couple of weeks now. Convert this image into webp and try to use it instead of traditional png. It was pretty crazy for me to see an up to 10x image size reduction, yet very little to no visual difference with a naked human eye.

Some further reading led me to some pleasant discoveries, such as lossy and lossless compression, transparency with an alpha channel, metadata, animation (!) support, and a wide adoption by major browsers and graphics software over the past decade or so.

This is truly some state-of-the-art stuff. Even as claiming an average of 45% reduction in file size with wild PNGs found on the web and a 28% reduction compared to PNGs that are recompressed with pngcrush and PNGOUT. I should try this now!

from Hacker News https://ift.tt/zOL9sj5