Η Mozilla announced it project mozjpeg, through which the images are compressed JPEG will be against 10% greater, and consequently the Browsing it will become faster.
His goal mozjpeg is to produce one quality JPEG encoder which will offer higher compression while maintaining the compatibility with existing ones.
So far, mozjpeg's results after testing on about 1.500 JPEGs photos, show a compression of the order of 10%. Of course, Mozilla hopes to get higher compression in the next versions of mozjpeg.
Initially the company wanted to develop it hers lossy format compression, however her example Google to WebP που failed to prevail in the market, led to the creation of mozjpeg, to improve the popular JPEG.
Read more about mozjpeg here.
Source: e-pcmag.gr