project_path: /web/_project.yaml book_path: /web/shows/_book.yaml description: YouTube, despite being a video-sharing website, is one of the largest image hosting platforms on the internet with over a hundred billions images served daily. As part of the effort to make YouTube faster we explored a possibility of using WebP as an alternative thumbnail format and now we can share our experience and what we have learned during the ongoing project of a site-wide WebP adoption.

{# wf_updated_on: 2015-03-29 #} {# wf_published_on: 2015-03-29 #} {# wf_youtube_id: 8vJSCmIMIjI #}

WebP at YouTube {: .page-title }

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YouTube, despite being a video-sharing website, is one of the largest image hosting platforms on the internet with over a hundred billions images served daily. As part of the effort to make YouTube faster we explored a possibility of using WebP as an alternative thumbnail format and now we can share our experience and what we have learned during the ongoing project of a site-wide WebP adoption.