ImageBinary

`image/webp`

WebP

Reference for image/webp, Google's modern image format offering superior compression for both lossy and lossless images.

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Expected extensions: .webp

HTTP Content-Type Header

HTTP Header

Content-Type: image/webp

Associated File Extensions

.webp

Quick Facts

MIME Type	image/webp
Category	Image
Type	Binary
Extensions	.webp

Common Usage

WebP provides smaller file sizes than JPEG and PNG while maintaining equivalent quality. It supports lossy and lossless compression, transparency, and animation.

Adopted by all major browsers, WebP is increasingly the default choice for web images to improve page load performance.

Code Examples

HTML

<!-- Link or embed with explicit type -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="file.webp" type="image/webp">

<!-- Or for script/media elements -->
<script type="image/webp" src="file.webp"></script>

Node.js

// Express.js
app.get('/file', (req, res) => {
  res.type('image/webp');
  res.send(data);
});

// Node.js http
res.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'image/webp' });

nginx

# nginx.conf — add to types block or use default
types {
    image/webp  webp;
}

# Or set for a specific location
location /api/ {
    default_type image/webp;
}