@000a @a1ba it's only slightly better than jpeg/(a/m)png/gif and sometimes performs worse in terms of perceived quality, but it nonetheless was forced by Google onto everyone because it made google dot com load 22ms faster, and for a while ONLY chromium-based browsers supported is. To make matters worse, google uses same reasoning people pushed against webp to push against other formats like FLIF "It's not that better than webp".