What is AVIF?
AV1 Image File Format
A next-generation image format based on the AV1 video codec, delivering smaller files than JPG or WEBP at similar quality.
Advantages
- Smaller than JPG/WEBP at similar quality
- Supports transparency and HDR
- Royalty-free
Limitations
- Not supported by older browsers and many apps
- Slower to encode
Best used for
Cutting-edge web images; convert to JPG/PNG for compatibility.
- Extensions
- .avif
- MIME type
- image/avif
- Compression
- Lossy