Usage of image file formats broken down by client-side programming languages

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using various image file formats broken down by client-side programming languages. Cross-technology reports only include technologies with more than 1% usage to ensure statistical significance of the results. See technologies overview for explanations on the methodologies used in the surveys.

How to read the diagram:
JPEG is used by 71.7% of all the websites.
JPEG is used by 76.6% of all the websites that use JavaScript as client-side programming language.

JPEG

71.7%

76.6%

85.1%

PNG

62.1%

66.8%

69.1%

GIF

58.6%

62.3%

74.4%

W3Techs.com, 19 May 2013

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JavaScript

Flash

Percentages of websites using various image file formats broken down by client-side programming languages
Note: a website may use more than one image file format

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Image file format are different ways to store images on a computer, for instance on a web server.

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