WebP is Google's modern image format, supported in all major browsers since 2020. It offers roughly 30% better compression than JPEG and supports both lossy and lossless modes, animation, and alpha transparency. While JPEG XL is technically superior to WebP — achieving 20-30% better compression and supporting HDR, wider gamuts, and progressive decoding — WebP has the critical advantage of near-universal browser support that JXL currently lacks.

Converting JXL to WebP is the practical choice for web publishing today. Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, and all Chromium-based browsers render WebP natively. Content delivery networks and image optimization services widely support WebP. If you have adopted JXL for its storage efficiency and need web-compatible output, WebP provides the closest modern alternative with the broadest browser support.

The web needs images that every visitor can see. JPEG XL has been removed from Chrome and has only experimental support in Firefox, meaning the majority of web traffic cannot view JXL images. WebP fills the gap as the most widely supported modern image format — it is natively rendered by browsers representing over 96% of global web traffic.

WebP also outperforms JPEG in both lossy and lossless modes, making it a significant upgrade even when the original JXL provided even better compression. For websites optimizing Core Web Vitals and page load speed, WebP delivers meaningful file size reductions over JPEG while maintaining broad compatibility. Major platforms including WordPress, Shopify, and Cloudflare automatically serve WebP variants.

The converter decodes the JXL image and re-encodes it using libwebp. For lossy mode, WebP uses VP8-based compression with configurable quality (default 80). For lossless mode, WebP uses its own lossless coding scheme. Alpha transparency from the JXL source is preserved in both lossy and lossless WebP modes. EXIF metadata is transferred to the WebP output. Animated JXL sequences are converted to animated WebP with frame timing preserved.

Yes. WebP produces 25-35% smaller files than JPEG at equivalent visual quality, supports transparency and animation, and is natively supported by all modern browsers. It is the recommended web image format for most use cases.

JXL achieves 20-30% better compression than WebP, supports HDR, wider color gamuts, and progressive decoding. However, JXL lacks the browser support that WebP has. Technically JXL is superior; practically WebP is more usable today.

Yes. The converter preserves all frames and timing from the JXL animation in the animated WebP output.

Yes. Both lossy and lossless WebP support full 8-bit alpha transparency, unlike JPEG which has no transparency support at all.

Quality 80 is the recommended default for photographic content. For critical images, use 85-90. For web thumbnails and non-critical images, 70-75 provides good size reduction with acceptable quality.

Internet Explorer and very old Safari versions (before 14) cannot display WebP. For these browsers, provide a JPEG fallback using the HTML picture element.

Device	JXL	WebP
Windows PC	Partial	Partial
macOS	Partial	Partial
iPhone/iPad	Partial	Partial
Android	Partial	Native
Linux	Partial	Partial
Web Browser	No	Native

Feature	JXL	WebP
Full Name	JPEG XL	WebP Image
Extension	.jxl	.webp
Best For	Next-gen compression	Superior compression

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