.WEBP is a wolf in sheep's clothing?

[vbasic06]

First of all, greetings to all of you. Although I have been a longtime blackhatworld follower, I just created my account and I joined you blackhatworld. I hope to share with you in the white hat category by testing the information I have acquired as much as I can. I'm trying to improve my English, don't worry

Today I would like to share with you some information about WEBP that I have learned and tested.

In a sudden change of heart, WordPress has abandoned the built-in .webp feature! As for the reason...
They found that the disk size was bloated. This meant both slowness and skyrocketing hosting costs (because disk space is not cheap like bandwidth).
So the .webp feature was withdrawn from core versions. And all these chaotic developments were leaked in Search Engine Journal.

This may not be critical for many people, but!

There is a possibility that .webp is again among the problems that sneakily slow down your site.
Because in some optimizations I've done, I've seen that .webp slows down the site when there is an Apache-side incompatibility!
On the other hand, one of the most common errors I encounter is manually uploading .webp images.

Let's create a sample table for Wordpress users.​

Minify WEBP

File Name	File Size
Photo.webp	14.03 KB
Photo-180x180.webp	128.74 KB
Photo-450x250.webp	191.01 KB
Photo-1024x768.webp	202.31 KB
Total File Size	536.09 KB

Minify PNG

Photo.png	14.91 KB
PhotoPhoto.png.png	18.66 KB
Photo-450x250.png	19.94 KB
Photo-1024x768.png	22.38 KB
Total File Size	75.89 KB

In short, .webp can be the cause of slowness that you may not be aware of.

Analyze the "real" speed results of your site itself, without looking at the score indicators.
Maybe .webp is a wolf in sheep's clothing for you. Test it and see the results.

If you ask me, WEBP seems to have many years ahead of it. What are your thoughts on this extension?

 

[xReminisce]

Grabbed
https://writingexercises.co.uk/images2/generator/sunset-silhouette.jpg as an example

Original size 1920x Photo.webp	93.6 KB
Photo-180x180.webp	4.5 KB
Photo-450x250.webp	10.8 KB
Photo-1024x768.webp	43.1 KB
Total File Size	152 KB

Original size 1920x Photo.png	1480 KB
Photo-180x180.png	33.6 KB
Photo-450x250.png	119.0 KB
Photo-1024x768.png	736.3 KB
Total File Size	2,368.9 KB

WP is just bloating that shit.

 

[SirLouen]

Something is wrong with that webp encoding. WEBP for me is 100% of the times way smaller that PNG hands down.The only problem with WEBP usage is that I cannot fetch images striaght from the internet to use it on cheap editors without converting, so I end doing a lot of screenshots for the purpose. Other than that webp is the step forward, not a wolf and sheep or whatever

Personally I like the plugin WebP Express give it a go.

 

[vbasic06]

Something is wrong with that webp encoding. WEBP for me is 100% of the times way smaller that PNG hands down.The only problem with WEBP usage is that I cannot fetch images striaght from the internet to use it on cheap editors without converting, so I end doing a lot of screenshots for the purpose. Other than that webp is the step forward, not a wolf and sheep or whatever

Personally I like the plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/webp-express/ give it a go.

I use a plugin for this and it speeds up my work considerably. I recommend it to you too.
Firefox:
https://addons.mozilla.org/tr/firefox/addon/save-webp-as-png-or-jpeg/
Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-image-as-png/nkokmeaibnajheohncaamjggkanfbphi

 

[SirLouen]

I use a plugin for this and it speeds up my work considerably. I recommend it to you too.

One extra Chrome Extension on my browser and my computer literally explodes

 

[Toz]

WebP is fine for me. Plus, I use a CDN, so whatevs. This is good to keep an eye out for, though.

 

[Stitches and Burns]

I'm using Ezoic which automatically generates Webp images while still keeping my jpeg images.

 

[leechesBleechin]

For one thing, Very few should be uploading webP's manually. Let the CDN do the work and conversion, and keep uploading in png or jpg like always. Secondly, WordPress itself bulks everything up for no reason. if you're doing it right, a webp file should never realistically touch your server anyway. This is because you have your regular jpgs and pngs as fallbacks, so an additional webp is just taking up needless space that a CDN could be hosting instead. Thats my take on it.

 

[samutm]

r10's üstad of site speed is here. welcome.

 

[777FLICK]

I am using .WEBP with Smush Pro, I think it's faster but maybe minimised JPG/PNG is better?

 

[supremeboxtee]

Or just add a checkbox like:

Prevent using webps larger than original

Which webp express has

webp is faster and more efficient 99.9% of the time

webp when done correctly is faster and more efficient 100% of the time using srcset and sizes for responsive

it's fucking hilarious to me that they scrapped webp due to 'multiple files being created' meanwhile their built-in thumbnail and media management scripts are absolutely flawed and literally take manual work to fix and remove the duplicates and unused sizes, on top of plugins to try to keep it from generating them whenever it wants

lol

 

[Dopious]

it's fucking hilarious to me that they scrapped webp

Who scrapped webp?

 

[tommy.k]

how about hosting it using cdn like cloudfare ?

 

[TheMarquis]

I like WebP, and I use it for each and every site I develop (I prefer to manually optimize each image from the beginning and not use a plugin) - The performance difference is uncontestable between WebP and any other extension (excluding AVIF ). In the thread's context, I think it is WordPress's fault, not WebP.

 

[vbasic06]

Who scrapped webp?

Wordpress no longer supports it.

 

[Dopious]

Wordpress no longer supports it.

WordPress has NEVER supported webp default, but the integration process of supporting it is under development and very much alive and kicking. webp will be implemented in WordPress as default soon, you can read about the latest from the performance team about webp here.

 

[blackbeans]

Thank you for this awesome share.

If a publisher is in a fairly competitive niche, every little bit counts.

And with everything else being equal, if that publisher uses WebP instead of other image formats, they might be putting themselves at a serious competitive disadvantage.

Thanks for the heads up.

I focus primarily on JPEG or, if I absolutely need it, PNG.

This is definitely a post that many online publishers need to see.

 

[Kinu Actaz]

I manually compress JPEG then use it.

 

[V]

I manually compress JPEG then use it.

I use plugins for that, no more manually compressing images.

 

[4440]

WordPress has NEVER supported webp default, but the integration process of supporting it is under development and very much alive and kicking. webp will be implemented in WordPress as default soon, you can read about the latest from the performance team about webp here.

yes I use the lab performance plugin to convert to webp on some of my sites, it works well.