{"id":22178,"date":"2010-10-04T01:30:19","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T01:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/googles_webp_tries_to_speed_up_the_web_by_making_images_more_byte-size\/"},"modified":"2010-10-04T01:30:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T01:30:19","slug":"googles_webp_tries_to_speed_up_the_web_by_making_images_more_byte-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22178","title":{"rendered":"(Computerworld) Google&#39;s WebP tries to speed up the web by making images more byte-size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In its continuing attempts to make the Web faster, Google is trimming down the size of image files, which make up about 65% of the bytes on the Web.<\/p>\n<p>Google announced late this afternoon that it&#8217;s releasing a developer preview of a new image format, which it&#8217;s dubbed WebP. An alternative to the JPEG format, which is typically used today for Web pictures and images, WebP should &#8220;significantly&#8221; reduce the byte size of images, Google promises.<\/p>\n<p>And that reduction is expected to enable Web sites to load a whole lot faster. &#8220;Images and photos&#8230; can significantly slow down a user&#8217;s Web experience, especially on bandwidth- constrained networks such as a mobile network,&#8221; Richard Rabbat, a Google product manager, wrote in a blog pos<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/s\/article\/9189020\/Google_s_WebP_makes_images_more_byte_size\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its continuing attempts to make the Web faster, Google is trimming down the size of image files, which make up about 65% of the bytes on the Web. Google announced late this afternoon that it&#8217;s releasing a developer preview<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22178\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,94,589,149,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-blogging-the-internet","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}