Question on Lazy Load and WebP

Hi @steveraven – thank you for your question! ??

First of all, it is been a while since only Chrome supported WebP image format.
Currently most of the modern browsers support this image format and they cover about 80% of the market as you can see here.

Also please note that the .htaccess option won’t work with CDNs.

So basically, if you want to display WebP images and you don’t use a CDN and also you don’t want to use lazy-loading then ShortPixel Image Optimizer is likely the best option for you.

If you want to display WebP to all the browsers that support this image format and also you want to have lazy-load by default and use a CDN then I recommend you our new plugin called ShortPixel Adaptive Images.

Best regards,
Alex

Great thread – read all the documentation from @shortpixel and this is a great compare between SPIO and SPAI: https://shortpixel.helpscoutdocs.com/article/179-shortpixel-adaptive-images-vs-shortpixel-image-optimizer

I’m already a user of SPIO and I wonder if it has lazy loading capabilities, or if for that only reason I’d need to install SPAI.

IF I need to install SPAI:
– would it conflict with SPIO?
– would I consume new credits to re-optimize the images already optimized by SPIO?

thanks