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
Any updates on this?
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This would be incredibly helpful.
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*3 years later*
Happy new year ! Webp still not supported yet ? Alright, see you next year for the same message. I hope I won't have to write it...
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Webflow are you sleeping?
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3 years later and nothing changed :(
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Just found out I couldn't upload a WEBP, let alone have Webflow do the conversion for me. Please add WEBP support.
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Will this be added soon? In my experience especially with transparent PNGs WEBP is a lot more efficient with compression. In my opinion this feature is a must to improve loading performance
https://web.dev/uses-webp-images/?utm_source=lighthouse&utm_medium=unknown
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Finally it is reviewed :)
WebP is been available in all major browsers since 2 years
https://caniuse.com/?search=webp
Hurry up. AVIF is the next big thing.
https://caniuse.com/?search=avif
And it is not rocket science to use the <picture> to have a fallback to all old image types
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/picture
It means: already today WebP and AVIF could be supported by webflow without any impact on the websites. It just needs some converting power
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It's been over 3 years now...
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Wow. how is this still not implemented? Just found that out today trying to uploda a webp file to swap out a png.. well this isnt okay. its nearly doubling the website size. Cmon guys, this seems illogical to not implement while all the browsers virtually allow it now.
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Please add this feature, not being able to support this is tanking Core Web Vitals and my clients are wanting to improve this ASAP. Jobs are on the line here :)
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Can we please have this!
We desperately need this. Rankings are going down because of the load speeds!
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Still waiting for this !
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We need this! This is singlehandedly tanking my PageSpeed rankings and forcing me to reduce images on-page!
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What is the current status here? Will something come here in relation to the Webp format or not?
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I will comment that AVIF support makes much more sense. AVIF is a "pure win", and always outperforms JPEG and WebP, whereas WebP is more "hit or miss". It is sometimes better, and sometimes worse than JPEG. AVIF is supported by all major browsers now.
I can say that we say minimal benefit from using WebP on our site, but AVIF we saw about 50% image size reduction (as an anecdote).
Here is a pretty good article from Netflix on this:
https://netflixtechblog.com/avif-for-next-generation-image-coding-b1d75675fe4
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Please please please please please do this as soon as possible (please). It's literally tanking our Core Web Vitals score almost single-handedly, and we cannot even fix it because Webflow doesn't support next-gen images 😭
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@webflow any feedback here would be good.
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As of September of 2020, Safari now recognizes WebP. I'm not even asking for an automated action. I'd rather just see it made possible to upload WebP formats. Virtually all browsers support it, and it would clearly improve page load speeds drastically.
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Please allow WebP images as soon as possible. It is industry standard.
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