JPEG XL vs AVIF for web use-cases: is it time to switch?

Pixel Panda · 9 likes

Browser support is the whole story. Everything else is academic.

Rafael Almeida · 13 likes

Fair, but its been 'academic' for like 5 years now

Pixel Otter · 1 likes

Still using WebP with AVIF for hero images. Encoding time for AVIF kills our build.

Diego Quispe · 6 likes

We moved encoding to a queue on upload, builds are fast again

Paper Orbit · 1 likes

Lossless JPEG recompression alone saves us a ton of storage on the old archive.

Arif Hasan · 1 likes

Anyone benchmarked decoding cost on low-end Android? That's where I get bitten.

Sanne de Vries · 0 likes

JXL progressive decode is genuinely great for slow connections. Wish all browsers shipped it.

Liam Eriksson · 0 likes

Just use a CDN that does format negotiation and stop thinking about it.

Rohan Mehta · 3 likes

Until the bill arrives 😬

Camila Rocha · 0 likes

I read the post twice and still shipped JPEG. Don't judge me.