The webp image format has been around for quite a few years, but I only recently found out about it. The Webp image format greatly reduces the file size without losing any quality over formats such as .gif, .png, and jpeg.
Gimp on Linux already has this function to export as webp, but you can also install the cwebp package in Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based distributions to convert images to the webp format using the terminal.
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