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
Building on the recent addition of WebP image support, we’ve just launched a built-in conversion tool within the asset manager that lets you both convert and replace existing images to the WebP format.
To convert images to the WebP format and replace existing images on your site with their converted WebP counterparts, select the image(s) in the asset manager, then click the compress button at the top of the panel.
Once your images are done converting, you’ll see a notification at the top right corner of the canvas letting you know you can republish your site to push the updated images live.
And that’s it! For more details and troubleshooting in case of failed conversions, check out our article on Webflow University.
Brilliant to see WebP conversion tool!
I'd say WebP is now a viable option and recommended ammo for your web sustainability arsenal. It will help you;
reduce data storage and transfer
reduce energy resource at the data centre (AWS for Webflow)
reduce CO2e
make your site faster (and improve conversion rate)
improve your SEO (Google considers next-gen image formats a “Core Web Vital”)
As of the 14th of July it looks like WebP is supported.
You just have to upload a WebP image and it works. If you want to convert your images to WebP I recommend the squoosh app. https://squoosh.app/
Important note: Image fallbacks should really be in place for the 4% of browsers that do not support the WebP image format. If you have visitors from using browsers like IE 11 then they will not see the images.
https://webflow.com/feature/webp-image-support
It's a shame
Yes, finally: https://stacket.app/
Can @webflow please combine the votes with this wishlist item, they are the same:
https://wishlist.webflow.com/ideas/WEBFLOW-I-2038
We need this ASAP !!!!!! At least being able to upload our own next gen image format... Come on team! You're doign such a great job on other areas of the product. This one is a must have for anyone caring about speed and SEO performance
I have same problem please any one do this. Thanks.
Finally, you can use the WebP and even AVIF Image Format in Stacket today: https://stacket.app/
You can benefit from the WebP or the AVIF (even smaller images) Automatic Compression without any Webflow Image Modifications!
Any updates on this?
Any updates on this?
This would be incredibly helpful.
*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...
Webflow are you sleeping?
3 years later and nothing changed :(
Just found out I couldn't upload a WEBP, let alone have Webflow do the conversion for me. Please add WEBP support.
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
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
It's been over 3 years now...
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.
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 :)