Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)
by turnsout on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @06:44PM
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Yeah, after seeing the logs I made the switch to webp earlier this year. As much as I hate to admit it (not a fan of Google), itβs a pretty big bandwidth savings for the same (or better) quality.
Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)
by hombre_fatal on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @07:13PM
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I switched to webp on my forum for avatars and other user image uploads.
With one format you get decent filesize, transparency, and animation which makes things much simpler than doing things like conditionally producing gifs vs jpegs.
Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)
by userbinator on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @12:00AM
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People want to use images outside of browsers too.
Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)
by prmoustache on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:12AM
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What apps are you using in 2025 that handle images but doesn't support webp?
I can't think of any on my Fedora desktop for instance.
Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)
by jcynix on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @09:07AM
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Luminar Neo, for example, doesn't handle webp. And there's more than just Fedora, IIRC.
Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)
by wongarsu on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @09:59AM
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Lots of websites that expect me to upload images only accept jpeg and png.
Another one I recently interacted with are video backgrounds for zoom. Those apparently can only be jpeg, not even png
Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)
by out_of_protocol on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @06:19AM
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.. or you can go directly to avif - https://caniuse.com/avif (93%) instead of webp (95% support).
Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)
by Sammi on Thursday June 19, 2025 @04:37AM
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I'd love to see a comparison of the computational expense of avif compared to webp. I know av1, which avif is based off, is pretty hard on the hardware.
Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024)
by out_of_protocol on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:04PM
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https://cloudinary.com/blog/jpeg-xl-and-the-pareto-front
See various charts. For example, this table:
https://res.cloudinary.com/cloudinary-marketing/images/f_aut...
For decoding,
Webp - ~70Mpx/s,
jpeg - 100 to 300 Mpx/s
Jpeg xl - 115 to 163
Avif (single thread) - 32 to 37
Avif (multithread) - 90 to 110
The last major browser to add support was Safari 16 and that was released on September 12, 2022. I see pretty much no one on browsers older than Safari 16.4 in metrics on websites I run.