


The standard has really caught on in industries where digital archiving is important. The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) intended the new format to take over for the even more ancient JPEG standard created in 1992. JPEG2000 is an image standard created in the year 2000. The trick is identifying Safari users and quickly serving images in JPEG2000 format.

However, a little known but powerful image file format called JPEG 2000 (mimetype image/jp2) is supported since Safari 5 and iOS 5 with some exceptions. Unfortunately, Apple Safari does not support WebP. Accelerating Apple Safari Usersīut what about Apple iPhones or iPads or any laptop running Safari browser? For many companies or organizations, Apple devices can make up more than 50% of their traffic. This can save up to 80% in your image payload. When you are delivering to desktops or android devices running Chrome browser, a quick solution is to convert your images to WebP. Audit tools like Google’s Lighthouse can quickly tell you how many seconds you can save by optimizing your images. Images slow down the page-loading performance of many websites.
