Chrome Shows Jpeg Images As webP

Hey everyone,

I'm seeing my images' type as webP in Chrome Devtools even though the extension of the images is JPG. How is this possible? Am I missing something?

Here's the URL of one of the pages: odamax.com/en/city/turkey/istanbul-795



Thanks in advance for your replies.

It creates much smaller file size than JPG and still supports transparency feature of PNG without much loss in quality
If you are running Chrome, you get webp images exclusively on those websites, while Firefox or Internet Explorer users get the standard image formats instead. But you can change your image from WebP to JPG.

Content-type is set to webp. As far as I can see it processes images through a CDN that converts them to webp and keep the filename intact.

Just a heads up if you are trying to upload webp to some sites like wordpress sometimes it does not work. If you want to get the image you should go to the webpage and use inspect element.

Thanks everyone for your replies.

What I don't get is that, in the HTTP header I see that the Content-Type is image/webp but the extension of the image is jpg. What is the format of the image in this case, JPG or WebP?

Shouldn't the image extension be webp as well, if the server serves the image as webp?

For instance this website serves images as webp and the extension of the images are webp as well.
Example: http://onedio.com/haber/bir-stilistin-kaleminden-harika-gorunmenizi-saglayacak-10-tavsiye-892113
https://ibb.co/bWLJqNj

Charon3 said:

I see that the Content-Type is image/webp but the extension of the image is jpg. What is the format of the image in this case, JPG or WebP?

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webp. Extension used in the image doesn't matter. It can be anything, as it's just a name (you need to modify .htaccess for this).

@TomTheCat thank you for your reply.