• abhibeckert@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    AVIF only beats WebP for heavily compressed images and it doesn’t beat it by much.

    If you want high quality images - then WebP is way better than AVIF. And if you want a lossless image then AVIF is totally useless. Lossless AVIF files are often 2x or 3x larger than an uncompressed image. WTF.

    Lossless WebP images can be as good as a quarter the size of an uncompressed source.

    And as bandwidth improves and images don’t really get much bigger (we’re already at the limit of human visual perception for reasonable file sizes) for me that makes WebP a better compression algorithm than AVIF.