: Is recomended to use BPG to a website? I want to use BPG on my website, but I'm not sure wether the support is broad enough. Maybe the javascript plugin for decoding doens't work with

@Debbie626

At the moment BPG looks promising, but is something I would not use on production websites (yet). Why?


It requires javascript, so users without javascript have no images.
Decompression and rendering of the bpg in javascript just takes too
long especially on mobile devices, even when the javascript and bpg
are in the browser cache.
Because the bpg rendering in javascript
takes so long it also blocks the rendering of other things that are
normally rendered fast.


If you want see the effects on page rendering yourself see these links, look at the filmstrips, on webpagetest that made runs on some of the bpg demo pages:


images of Lena on IE11
demo using chrome
demo using nexus device


When browsers get native support then it will be very interesting, but while bpg depends on this slow javascript I would just rely on JPEG and webp.

PS regarding the effect on SEO I don't know.

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