Who's using .webp over .jpg ?

[JB2302]

I have to visit this forum more often I just picked up another good pointer

[BHT]

Have any of you tried webm for multimedia files

[xxxman]

webp and webm are both good I have been using them for months to speed up my sites

[TheButcher]

webp and webm are both good I have been using them for months to speed up my sites

I have to out a little bit of time do my sites too, been procrastinating

[Dorman]

Any new image used needs to be webp or else you are working in yesterday land.

[tacnet]

Have any of you tried webm for multimedia files

Not tried webm yet but that's next on the list

Im guessing webm is probably not as critical as webp since the browser doesnt download the whole video file (like it does with webp images) and instead downloads a small portion and streams it

[fetishnews]

My sites are now 100% webp and not gif or jpg, it took me time but I got there.

[xxxman]

Before going ll in and changing my images, any downside to converting to webp.

[BrasSmonkey]

Before going ll in and changing my images, any downside to converting to webp.

there lots of arguments... im not switching... i think i said this in here already.
Browser support

One of the downsides of WebP is that the format is not supported by every browser. The image below shows which browsers support and which do not support WebP. As can be seen in the image, there are also browsers who partially support the new format. With that said, throughout the years more and more browsers are supporting WebP, this is also why the format has gained more popularity. Now, 94.08% of the total users on the internet can see WebP images. When using WebP images, it’s important to know which browsers your users mainly use.

[porntraveller]

Reduce size of images, load [ages faster = obvious choice


I am in on this.

[tacnet]

Before going ll in and changing my images, any downside to converting to webp.

there lots of arguments... im not switching... i think i said this in here already.
Browser support

One of the downsides of WebP is that the format is not supported by every browser. The image below shows which browsers support and which do not support WebP. As can be seen in the image, there are also browsers who partially support the new format. With that said, throughout the years more and more browsers are supporting WebP, this is also why the format has gained more popularity. Now, 94.08% of the total users on the internet can see WebP images. When using WebP images, it’s important to know which browsers your users mainly use.

Dont know where you got those numbers from. WebP has 97.03% browser coverage at the moment. See https://caniuse.com/webp

The only browsers that dont support it are things like IE which went end of life nearly 10 years ago. Nobody uses that anymore

The way I see it, youve basically got 2 choices.

• 1. Switch to WebP and see your website fly off the page for over over 97.03% of your users. AND at the same time get a BIG SEO boost (page load speed is now a high ranking factor with google)

OR

• 2. Stay as you are using slow .jpg, .gifs or .pngs just to accomdate the the 2.7% of users who still havent upgraded from IE11. And you will loose google traffic because your competitors all have much faster sites than you

If you want any more proof, just test your website speed at https://pagespeed.web.dev/ and see the recomendations that google comes back with. One will almost certainly be "serve your images in next gen format" ie webp.

[BrasSmonkey]

not doing it...

[gspotman]

not doing it...

You're missing on faster load times which gets Google happy

[tacnet]

not doing it...

Your loss. Since we've done it our page speed scores are up over 95% and its given us a real boost in google traffic

[BrasSmonkey]

not doing it...

Your loss. Since we've done it our page speed scores are up over 95% and its given us a real boost in google traffic