{"id":249285,"date":"2016-12-24T07:58:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T14:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/css-tricks.com\/?p=249285"},"modified":"2017-05-31T10:01:05","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T17:01:05","slug":"optimal-image-format-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/optimal-image-format-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Optimal Image Format” for Each Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"

Perhaps you’ve heard about the WebP<\/a> image format? And how it’s a pretty good performance win, for the browsers that support it? Well that’s only for Blink-based browsers, at the moment. Estelle Weyl’s article Image Optimization<\/a> explains the best image format for each browser:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\nBrowser\n<\/th>\n\nOptimal image format\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
\nChrome\n<\/td>\n\nWebP\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nIE 9+ \/ Edge\n<\/td>\n\nJPEG-XR\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nOpera\n<\/td>\n\nWebP\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\nSafari\n<\/td>\n\nJPEG-2000\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

And you can serve these formats through the <picture><source type=\"\"><\/code> syntax.<\/p>\n

Couple that complexity with the complexity of responsive images, and it really seems like outsourcing image delivery to a dedicated service seems like the way to go. At least above a certain scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Perhaps you’ve heard about the WebP image format? And how it’s a pretty good performance win, for the browsers that support it? Well that’s only for Blink-based browsers, at the moment. Estelle Weyl’s article Image Optimization explains the best image format for each browser: Browser Optimal image format Chrome WebP IE 9+ \/ Edge JPEG-XR […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"c2c_always_allow_admin_comments":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[17],"tags":[592,521],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"featured_media_src_url":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249285"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249288,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249285\/revisions\/249288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/css-tricks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}