At the time of writing Firefox and Safari do not yet support the relatively new image format WebP. However, the 75% Chrome users worldwide are already a pretty big crowd that could make use of them. According to Google the images are between 25 and 34% smaller, which would really benefit Webflow’s Pagespeed scores. The WebP images should be generated on upload and automatically served to all browsers that support it.
Thilko Limbeck
Yes, i'm reading more about this as well. The numbers are too good to not be looking into this.
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Yes!! It was actually announced at the google web dev conference that Firefox has adopted the use of WebP. This extension is crucial for good web speed scores.
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Agreed, Webflow should support WEBP...
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I think most people don't vote for this cause they don't know about it. If you said you could improve someone's page speed substantially and get better SEO because of it I bet it'd get thousands of votes! Please make this a priority!
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The attached image is a recommendation from Google's Page Speed Insights for one of my pages. It says "
Serve images in next-gen formats
Image formats like JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, and WebP often provide better compression than PNG or JPEG, which means faster downloads and less data consumption."
We choose Webflow because they will be ahead of the curve, or follow best practices (which they do a good job of minifying CSS and other stuff) but I am surprised there isn't enough noise about Images which are one of the important factors that affect page speed which in turn affects the SEO.
Please prioritise this.
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Come on guys, let´s do this!
It´s long overdue!
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This is super important, please make it happen!
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Would be nice!
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Anything that makes our Webflow site SEO more competitive is a big plus.
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Would really help with google page speed index.
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+1 for this!
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Please allow this to happen.
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Other platforms support webp formats. Wix automatically converts everything you upload (non-supported browsers get the OG version,) Shopify is soon to follow.
Webflow is falling behind, must be their marketing efforts to push the e-commerce taking away from the core elements of staying ahead of the curve.
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Would love this. So sad to see this still not be assigned a tag. :(
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We NEED THIS!!! Plz support WebP, JPEG 2000 or other contemporary Web image formats Webflow!
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+1
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Stumbled on this hoping for a solution for adding WebP images via WebFlow. I'm very surprised to find that it's not possible. It's a MUST with today's modern browsers.
In order to do this (including fallback) I implemented the following...
<picture>
<source srcset="/images/man_seated.webp" type="image/webp">
<source srcset="/images/man_seated.jpg" type="image/jpeg">
<img src="/images/man_seated.jpg" alt="Man seated" data-ix="scroll-left" width="378" class="seated">
</picture>
Seems to work.
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