Formats¶

Apercite supports three image formats: JPEG, PNG and WEBP.

If you’re using Apercite without an API Key, you can only use JPEG, which will be the only format served to your users.

The reason behind this is that JPEG has the highest compression rate, while being supported by all browsers. It costs less on our size to only have one format generated.

But there are good news! Authenticated users, and even non-paying authenticated users have access to the three formats. It is completely transparent, as we’ll select the right format to serve based on the visitor’s browser support and the picture availabilities on our side.

For example, a visitor using chrome may have the WEBP version, while another visitor using Firefox will have a PNG fallback.

Of course, if the JPEG version already exists but the PNG and WEBP versions does not, we’ll serve the JPEG version to Chrome users also until the WEBP version is ready.