Listen "Stop using JPGs: use WebP!"
Episode Synopsis
When you're working with websites, you can't ignore the WebP image format. But what makes this format better than other image formats? And is it really practical and will stay? In this episode, Steffen and Dominik dive deep into image formats and discuss how to use WebP. Highlights00:00 Intro00:48 How do you optimize image loading?01:22 The old image formats of the web02:55 The newer image format: WebP05:35 How to optimize png and jpg for web07:13 What’s so cool about WebP?09:33 Why didn't we use WebP for a long time?12:13 Who should convert images to WebP?13:47 Why is it so great to use just one image format?17:06 Upload WebP directly17:30 Dominik has an idea...20:33 Workflow of integrating WebP29:09 The image resizing bug (Can somebody fix it, please!)30:15 There's no ideal image size to upload32:29 Use WebP!LinksSquoosh: https://squoosh.app/Flynt: https://flyntwp.com/WebP Express: https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-express/Blurry images bug report (2015): https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=562162More from BleechBlog Posts (WordPress Development)Flynt (WordPress Starter Theme)VRTs (Visual Tests for WordPress)Siegfried, deploy! (YouTube Channel)
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