WEBP is an image file designed by Google to make websites more efficient. By maintaining higher quality and smaller size, WEBP files are intended to make the web faster without losing the quality of the images we are used too. By replacing most of the images on image-heavy websites with WEBP files, web pages will load faster and use less battery, which is ideal for mobile browsing. WEBP files are the sister project of WEBM files and use both lossy and lossless compression. File sizes tend to be smaller but, as a result, are not suitable for printing.
A GIF - or graphics interchange format - is a bitmap file widely used around the internet. GIFs contain up to 256 colors, so they’re not often used for photos, but as they have lossless compression, they work well for navigation buttons and logos on websites. A huge difference between a GIF and another bitmap image file, like a JPG, is that they can be saved as animated GIFs, which cycle between images to create a short, looping animation. These are primarily designed for - and used across - websites on the internet. You’ve definitely come across them before, particularly on social media and image sharing apps..
WEBP files are nicely compressed, digital image files designed for use on websites and browsers. They’re effective and speed up websites nicely, but not every application supports them. GIFs are much more widely recognized by different applications, and their compression gives them very small file sizes. So if you’re looking for a way to use your WEBP files across multiple applications and keep the file size small, convert your WEBP to GIFs, you can convert files quickly in management software such as WinZip.
WinZip is more than just a WEBP to GIF converter. We built WinZip to convert multiple file formats, including the formats below.
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