How to Use WebP Images in WordPress Website?

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How to Use WebP Images in WordPress Website?
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Finding ways to boost your WordPress
website speed? You might check for website speed
tools. And found your images are taken quite a
space in your WordPress website. Our WordPress
website development experience says the same.
Well, if you have tried enough by playing with
JPEG (JPG) to PNG or reverse, we have a solution
for you called WordPress WebP Images.
In this article, well dig further into
WebP images and also know how to use it for your
WordPress websites. Lets start with the
explanation of WebP images.
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What is WordPress WebP Images? Know in detail.
WebP images are an advanced image format,
designed by Google in 2010. The purpose behind it
is to reduce image size without losing its looks
and quality. The web performance team of Google
developed it as a replacement while supporting
good transparency, compression, and
animations.
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• WebP supports both lossy and lossless compression
  methods. It depends on whether you are using
  lossy or lossless compression.
• WebP Lossy compression uses predictive coding to
  encode an image.
• WebP Lossless compression uses already seen
  image fragments to reconstruct new pixels.
• With this extremely light-weighted format, youll
  get rich image quality with less bandwidth.

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WordPress WebP images transform JPEG
images, which is 25-34 smaller in size and 26
for PNG. However, the images' looks quality
remain the same. When you load theme images on
your website, it boosts time speed without
breaking visibility.
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The Web Browser Supports WordPress WebP Images
WebP images need visitor web browser support to
work. But all search browsers don't support WebP
images. According to Can I use, 79.2 of browsers
support the WordPress WebP images.
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• However, popular web browsers which support it,
  including
• Chrome
• Firefox
• Opera
• UC Browser
• Microsoft Edge
• Samsung Browser
• Baidu Browser
• QQ Browser

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• The browser which does not support WebP-
• Safari
• EI
• kaiOs
• However, Safari (17 global browsing
  shareholder), will support WebP in version 14,
  which is expected to be released in September
  2020.

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How to Use WebP Images in WordPress Website-
Just because some browsers don't support WebP
images, it doesnt mean you cant use it
successfully. For efficient image conversion,
dont upload WebP images files directly to your
media library, but use plugins. Here are some
WordPress plugins to tackle this problem.
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WordPress Plugins You Can Use for WebP Format-
These WordPress plugins will convert your
original images into WebP format and also keep a
backup if the visitors browser doesn't support
WebP images. The best WordPress WebP Plugin is
WebP Express- It is a free plugin that uses
the WebP Convert library to convert all images
into WebP format. It also drops the original
image format to the site, so the visitors without
a supporting browser can also access it.
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• The Work Process-
• Install the plugin
• Click on start conversion
• After complete conversion choose from Varied
  Response method or switch to CDN
  friendly mode to set up picture tag
• If you are not using CDN, you can stick to
  Standard mode for autogenerated WebP images.

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Optimole- The other free image optimization
version also automatically converts images to
WebP format. And serve them via Amazon CloudFront
CDN. If any browser does not support WebP
images, the plugin serves them in the original
format. With Optimole, you do not have to do
anything as the plugin does everything that works
for you. ShortPixel- It is a popular WordPress
image optimization plugin to resize and compress
images.
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• Features
• It helps to automatically convert images to WebP
  and serve those images to browsers that support
  WebP.
• It counts each WordPress image size that you
  optimize. So if you want to optimize multiple
  image thumbnails, one image could conceivably use
  multiple credits.
• It spreads your ShortPixel credits over
  unlimited websites with no per-site limits.

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Wrapping Up
The WebP file format is still growing in
popularity and support. To put it in a nutshell
large-sized images can stock up a big part of
your WordPress site storage, and strike out the
speed. Though WordPress has a solution in the
shape of WebP images. However, it is not
supported by all browsers, and you can use
WordPress image optimization plugins for
it.
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There is no other image format or image
optimization tool for the web that can manage
smaller file sizes with no discernible loss in
quality like WebP can. In this case, technicality
can be a big obstacle. It would be helpful, and a
speed booster to have an experienced WordPress
development company on your side, for a
full-fledged proposal, request a quote.