Thanks for the nice article, and I love webp, but there's a fundamental point that we're missing here. WebP shaves off bytes at the cost of more computational demand. For users where the bottleneck is network bandwidth, this can do great. But for users especially on mid to low range mobile phones, the cpu is the bottleneck a lot of times and webp actually may perform worse than png or jpegs. This is something you might be interested to understand better - who are your users, and are they really benefitting from webp out there in the wild? The sad truth as it is, nothing in this world is for free :(
Awesome input Abhishek, thank you! I am understanding better the reason why webp is performing better in the bandwidth, I will definitively dig this and improve this article.
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Thanks for the nice article, and I love webp, but there's a fundamental point that we're missing here. WebP shaves off bytes at the cost of more computational demand. For users where the bottleneck is network bandwidth, this can do great. But for users especially on mid to low range mobile phones, the cpu is the bottleneck a lot of times and webp actually may perform worse than png or jpegs. This is something you might be interested to understand better - who are your users, and are they really benefitting from webp out there in the wild? The sad truth as it is, nothing in this world is for free :(
Awesome input Abhishek, thank you! I am understanding better the reason why webp is performing better in the bandwidth, I will definitively dig this and improve this article.