As a concrete comparison, I downloaded the first webp figure on the page, "soft-drop-animation. The webp is 63,250 bytes. I used imagemagick to convert this fi

As a concrete comparison, I downloaded the first webp figure on the page, "soft-drop-animation. The webp is 63,250 bytes. I used imagemagick to convert this file into a gif, resulting in a 119,265 byte file. I then ran the result through gifsicle[0] with maximum compression (-O3) to losslessly optimize it, producing a gif that is 29,711 bytes; less than half of the size of the original webp. As I noted higher on the comment chain, this usage scenario is particularly favorable to the gif format, while webp might come out ahead for photographic sources. [0] https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/man.html https://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/man.html