Usage of image file formats broken down by web servers

This diagram shows the percentages of websites using various image file formats broken down by web servers. 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 71.0% of all the websites.
JPEG is used by 72.5% of all the websites that use Apache as web server.

JPEG

71.0%

72.5%

75.9%

74.3%

71.3%

86.7%

PNG

60.8%

63.2%

54.8%

65.0%

69.8%

95.7%

GIF

57.9%

57.4%

68.3%

57.0%

56.9%

79.3%

W3Techs.com, 21 May 2013

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Percentages of websites using various image file formats broken down by web servers
Note: a website may use more than one image file format

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

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