By Ilya Grigorik on December 18, 2012 An average page is now over 1200kB in size and 60% of that is in images. With all the focus on performance and speed across the web performance industry, you would think that innovating on better image formats would be a top agenda item. Not so. Instead, we are living in a self-imposed world of scarcity of formats, effectively limiting ourselves to gif’s, png’
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