Google Chrome Labs has released Squoosh, a web app that can compress and reformat images to make lighter web pages. The tool is aimed at helping web developers quickly compress images and reduce image ...

One of the biggest challenges of the web is the adoption rate of new technologies. It’s not enough to develop a great idea, a new format or a technology in general if the majority of people can’t use ...

Small is beautiful, as the old saying goes, and nowhere is that more true than in media files. Compressed images are considerably easier to transmit and store than uncompressed ones are, and now ...

As part of its self-imposed mission to make the web faster, Google has rolled its own image format. It's called WebP, and it's based on open source technology. Google launched the initiative Thursday ...

WebP is a relativly new image format that provides lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Google is an advocate for it since it helps speed up browsing and such. But do WebP images get ...