Sure, technology decisions often are the result of personal predilection, political scheming, and inter-company rivalries. But cold hard data still can win the day -- and that's why Mozilla is reconsidering its earlier decision not to support Google's WebP image format.
Specifically, data showing that Google isn't just blowing smoke when it promised that using WebP lets Web site operators save precious bytes when it's sending Web-page data to browsers. Smaller file sizes means browsers can show Web pages faster, Web site operators cut bandwidth usage, and people with capped data plans get a little more headroom.
Everything.me found that WebP cut data usage with the two major image formats on the Web, JPEG and PNG, said Andreas Gal, Mozilla's vice president of mobile engineering.
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