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Drop one JPG or two hundred. Batch conversion is not a paid feature here.
An image library of JPEGs is the largest thing on the page and the team wants the smallest format that browsers actually support.
The JPEG is decoded and re-encoded as AV1 intra. For photographic content AVIF commonly reaches the same perceived quality at 40 to 50 percent of the JPEG's size.
Lossy input, lossy output. AVIF is efficient enough that it will happily spend bytes preserving the JPEG's own blocking artefacts. Encode from the original capture where one still exists, not from the web-sized JPEG.
At a sensible quality setting, yes on screen. AVIF handles smooth gradients better than JPEG, so skies often look cleaner than the source.
For browsers, no. For email clients, scrapers, and older desktop software, yes.
Drop one JPG or two hundred. Batch conversion is not a paid feature here.
AV1 Image File is lossless, so nothing is thrown away in the conversion.
Converted and deleted the moment it finishes. Never written to permanent storage.