>>482 In 10-20% of cases it might not be a huge improvement over JPG but the majority of the time it's 20-30% better and half the time it can even compete with JXL. That last part made me rethink advocating for modern image formats because WebP is incrediby mature/stable/fine-tuned. JXL will do the same but when? 2030? 2035? WebP is also more decode friendly than JXL so it can benefit pretty much everyone no matter how terribly low-spec their phone/computer is.
WebP can also compress PNG images with 0 loss in quality as well. Most websites do not support this yet or convert lossless WebP to lossy Webp. Umigalaxy is one of the very few websites out there that will let you upload a lossless WebP and not apply any lossy compression to it. cwebp -lossless -z 9 -m 6 -q 100 in.png -o out.webp for %a in (in.png) do @for %b in (out.webp) do @set/a p=100-(100*%~zb/%~za)&echo % smaller I got a whopping 32% filesize reduction with picrel. From ~3 MB to ~2 MB, about an entire MB chunk wiped out.
There's also animated WebP, which I don't fully understand yet, but it obliterates GIF.
So idk man, "WEBP SUCKS ASS" is a pretty facebook-tier/MIGA way of looking at WebP in my humble opinion.