What is a .WebP file?
WebP is a modern Google image format offering both lossy and lossless compression, smaller than JPEG or PNG at similar quality.
- Did you know
- Google released WebP in 2010, derived from its VP8 video codec.
- WebP’s lossy mode reuses the still-frame coding of the VP8 video codec, treating a picture as a single video frame.
- Later additions gave WebP a lossless mode plus an alpha channel, so it can replace both JPEG and PNG.
- Animated WebP was designed to succeed the animated GIF, offering full 24-bit colour instead of the GIF’s 256-colour palette.
- On the web a .WebP file is served with the MIME type
image/webp.
- What Analyser shows you
- View EXIF, GPS, camera settings, histograms, dominant colours, OCR text, and AI-generation markers in JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, GIF, BMP, TIFF, AVIF and JPEG XL images. Detects computational-photo wrappers (Apple Live Photo, Google and Samsung Motion Photo, Ultra HDR gain maps), opens THM movie-thumbnail files, and extracts every embedded image from multi-image files - all sizes in an ICO, both halves of an MPO stereo pair, and every page of a multi-page TIFF.
- Open a .WebP file
- Drag a .WebP file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It opens entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.