Webp in media library ?

Hello @malik15,

This is Joseph from Imagify, and I’ll gladly assist you here. Thank you for your patience awaiting my response as we were off recently for the holidays!

Unfortunately, this is not quite how Imagify works at the moment. Here is how things work:

1) Images are optimized using our servers and WebP versions are created. Both the optimized JPG/PNG versions and WebP versions are stored on your site’s server. So if you have the following image that gets optimized:

https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/images01.jpg

Then the WebP version would be:

https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/images01.jpg.webp

Both versions are kept because there are still some people using browsers that don’t support WebP images yet, and our WebP display options both provide fallbacks so the optimized JPG/PNG would be served in those cases.

2) In the Media Library, only the JPG/PNG versions will be displayed.

3) If you use our WebP images display options, (“Use <picture> tags” and “Use rewrite rules” options), they should work to display images for you in WebP format. If you find one isn’t working well for you, you can try switching to the other.

Please let me know if you have any further questions on this and I’ll be very happy to assist however I can!

Best regards,
Joseph

Hi Joseph,
Thanks for the answer.
I asked this question because I still don’t understand something. It is so complicated.
Maybe I’m wrong, maybe I don’t know enough.
But a few years ago, ok, but now all browsers natively support webp. Storing jpeg on hdd is useless. ~95% users have actual browsers.
And I’d love to pay for the service, and convert to webp on an external server.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 11 months ago by Martin.

Hi @malik15,

Yes, I can definitely understand your point of view on this! I can say that we’re definitely looking at our options as far as how to proceed in this aread in the near future, but I’m still not sure exactly what changes we might decide to make.

For now, it still may be a little too early to do away with fallback support for those who still use browsers that don’t support WebP. 4 or 5 percent is small as a percentage, but depending on how much traffic a site gets, it can still be a significant number of people that might end up seeing blank spaces instead of images.

As I mentioned, we are looking at what changes can be made sometime in the near future, but I’m not sure exactly what they might be just yet. Very sorry if this is an inconvenience for you!

Best regards,
Joseph

Hi Jaseph,
Thank you very much for your comprehensive answer.
Best wishes.