Any plans to support .PNG format?

  • Resolved David Innes

    (@david-innes)


    4 months, 2 weeks ago

    This is a wonderful plugin. I saw a mention on Reddit and immediately tried it on a test site. Seems to work great. For JPGs. It doesn’t convert PNGs though. Even PNGs with no transparency.

    Do you have plans to add support for PNGs? Are there technical reasons you aren’t supporting .PNG now?

    Over the years I’ve done optimization on hundreds of sites and find so many PNG files with no transparency. Even heavily optimized PNGs can still be 10x larger than a visually identical JPG. And it’s unreasonable to ask non-professional site users to convert.

    In a test I did just now, a client’s 1.8mb PNG is only 233kb when saved to JPG at “high quality.” Saved with a desktop WebP converter both images render to 27k! But… while it’s nice this plugin could get up to 8x savings for JPGs, wouldn’t it be a genuine boon to get up to 66x savings for PNGs!

    So. Feature request. Please support .PNG conversion to WebP and AVIF as well as .JPG conversion.

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