WebP provides excellent compression, reducing massive BMP files by 90-95% with minimal quality loss. It's perfect for modern web use, offering better compression than JPG or PNG while maintaining quality. WebP is the ideal target format for web-optimizing BMP images.
WebP files are typically 90-95% smaller than BMP. A 20MB BMP might become a 1MB WebP. WebP's advanced compression is perfect for making enormous uncompressed BMP files practical for web use and storage.
For photographs, use lossy WebP for best file size with excellent quality. For graphics with text or sharp edges, use lossless WebP which is still much smaller than BMP. Lossless WebP provides perfect quality like BMP but with 50-75% smaller files.
All modern browsers support WebP (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari 2020+). Very old browsers don't support it. For maximum compatibility, serve WebP to modern browsers with a JPG/PNG fallback for older ones.
For web use, yes. WebP offers better compression than PNG, meaning smaller files. For archiving where you need guaranteed universal compatibility, PNG is safer. For modern web use, WebP is the better choice.