Up the WebP chain at Google: Better speed, capability
Monday, March 24, 2014 - 04:30
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —Nicholas Doyle, optimization developer at Akamai Technologies, wrote last December about how image data dominates today's web site bytes, contributing to most of what we see. Loading images quickly is imperative, he said, and for the most part the strategies used to optimize images for web sites have not changed dramatically for quite a while. "Choice of formats between JPEG, GIF and more recently PNG and the choice of lossy compression settings is the usual approach taken by most people today." Doyle spent time implementing image optimizations as part of an Akamai solution and learned a great deal about the topic in the process. Flash-forward to March 2014 and one can say that Mozilla and Google have learned a lot too.