Benchmark Lab · format-ladder-v1

The numbers, with receipts.

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Last verified
2026-08-30
Runtime
Sharp 0.35.3
Print-shop crew compressing a stack of photographs

Format ladder

JPEG · quality 82, progressive, mozjpeg49.7 KB
WebP · quality 80, effort 637.2 KB
AVIF · quality 5824.0 KB

Raw results

Exact bytes and encoders

FormatBytesSettingsEncoder
JPEG50916quality 82, progressive, mozjpegmozjpeg 0826579
WebP38096quality 80, effort 6libwebp 1.6.0
AVIF24538quality 58libaom 3.14.1 via libheif 1.23.1

Method

One source is resized to 1000 px wide, then encoded once at practical web settings. Outputs were visually spot-checked at 100%; they are useful operating points, not a claim of mathematically identical perceptual quality.

Corpus provenance

SHA-256
50b5a5a9bbceec6f0e284361612a250bc756ebb37aed719b85273118680523c2
Source dimensions
1200 × 630

Reproduce

Run the same benchmark

Clone the repository, install its locked dependencies, then run:

npm ci
npm run benchmark