Turn JPG Photos Into Smaller WebP Files
This tool re-encodes JPG and JPEG photos as WebP, the format most websites now serve to browsers. The main reason to do it is file size: at comparable visual quality, a WebP version of a photo typically comes out 25 to 35 percent smaller than the JPG it came from. On a page with one image that barely matters. Across a product catalog or a photo-heavy blog, it adds up to real bandwidth.
One Thing to Know Before You Convert
JPG and lossy WebP both throw away image data to save space, so this conversion re-compresses a photo that has already been compressed once. At the default quality of 85 the second pass is hard to spot on ordinary photos, but it is not reversible. Keep your original JPGs somewhere. If you ever need to edit or reprint the photo, go back to the source file rather than the WebP.
Picking a Quality Value
The slider defaults to 85, which is a sensible compromise for photographs. Going above 90 grows the file quickly for detail most people cannot see. Dropping below 70 starts to smudge fine texture such as hair, grass and fabric, and faces are usually where viewers notice first. If you are converting images for a site, run one representative photo at two or three settings, compare them at full size, then process the rest of the batch at the value you settled on.
Metadata Is Removed
The converter writes a clean WebP without copying EXIF data, so camera settings, capture date and GPS coordinates from the original JPG do not travel into the output. For photos headed to a public website that is usually a feature, not a loss. If you rely on embedded copyright fields or color profiles, note that those are stripped as well, which can slightly shift colors in wide-gamut images.
Converting in Bulk
You can queue as many as 30 JPGs in a single job, as long as the whole upload stays under 50MB. Every file in the batch uses the same quality setting. A single converted image downloads directly; two or more arrive as one ZIP archive. Uploads and results are deleted from the server automatically, roughly ten minutes after the job finishes.
Who Still Cannot Open WebP
Every current browser handles WebP, so for web use you rarely need a fallback anymore. The holdouts are elsewhere: older versions of Microsoft Office, some desktop email clients and a number of print services still reject WebP uploads. If the image is going into a document or off to a print shop, JPG remains the safer format.