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by lmz 755 days ago
Why would you prefer to have duplicates in different formats when other formats supported by all are available.
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This is a common storage vs bandwidth trade-off.
The bandwidth saving is miniscule by any metric though.
and using one image format (or fewer number of them) increases the CDN's cache hit rate, so it decreases latencies and makes your site load faster.