[Import] Which image format is the best?

Which image format is the best?
Translated by Jonathan Snook

During website development, you may not consider too many image formats. However, a wise choice will save you (or your company) a lot of bandwidth expenses. There are three mainstream Web image compression formats: GIF, JPEG, and PNG. They use different image information compression technologies, each of which has its own advantages and disadvantages.

GIF
(Note: Graphics Interchange Format, graphic exchange format .)

GIF is lossless compression, that is, the image has no quality loss during the compression process. Unzipped image information is stored linearly. (When downloading) each line of pixels is read from left to right. Staggered GIF images (htmlor Note: You can choose between staggered images when fireworks exports GIF images) Store Image rows in different sequence. (When downloading) read rows 4th, 8, 12, 16, and 20, and then rows 2nd, 6, 10, 14, and 18 ,...... And so on until the complete image is read. When downloading in this way, users with slow network speeds can clearly understand the process. (Htmlor Note: You can view the download results on this page .)

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