Technical MIME Specification & Web Server Guide
image/webp
Technical overview, official IANA specification, header magic bytes, and server configuration snippets for .WEBP files (WebP Image).
File Extension
.webp
Content-Type Header
image/webp
Format Category
Images
Standard Specification
RFC 7903
Description & Usage
Modern Google image format offering lossy and lossless web compression.
HTTP Server Content-Type Configuration Code
# Nginx mime.types configuration for .webp
types {
image/webp webp;
}OS Compatibility Matrix
Windows
macOS
Linux
Android
iOS
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The official MIME content type for .webp files is "image/webp". Web servers use this header to instruct browsers how to render or process .webp data.