The image format png has the popularity of “competitor” gif now overtaken, according to research. Especially in Europe, including the Netherlands, is the size popular. The most popular format for images remains jpeg.
A long time was the gif image format is more popular than png, but this month has png ‘competitor’ to be overtaken. That’s according to research by W3Techs, sites automated analyses on the technologies used. Png is now used by 62,4 percent of the websites, while 62,3% of the websites gif. Moreover, the market share of png to increase, while that of poison drops.
The popularity of png varies by region: mainly in Europe, would the format popular. It is the ‘market share’ of the format in the Netherlands, France, Italy and Spain to over 70 percent. In Asia, that share is much lower: so only a tight 30 percent of Chinese websites are in the format. It is also noteworthy that png is more popular on web servers with Unix than on Windows.
Png, or portable network graphics, was originally developed as an alternative to gif, as that last format had patent claims. In addition, how to solve gif, introduced in 1987 by the American isp is CompuServe, with a limit of 256 colors. Png has support for lossless-compression in which all the colors in addition remain preserved, though there can be also be chosen for a more limited color scheme.
Like gif, png supports transparency, which is the format attractive to convert for interface elements on websites. Incidentally supported in Internet Explorer until version 7 is no transparency in png images, except if developers javascript tricks used. That has the breakthrough of png extended period of time stopped. Png is not on all surfaces to compare with gif: that last format supports animated images, while png is not the case. There is a version of png that is animation support, but that is by the majority of browsers are not supported.
The most common format for images remains the photo size jpeg, by 72,7% of the websites are used. That number is already a year long more or less stable. The bitmap format is hardly even present on websites: only 0.6 percent of the sites used bmp. Svg, and tiff are used by less than 0.1 percent of the websites.
