Are images converted to webp or not?

  • Resolved Deon

    (@deon-b)


    4 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,
    I went to your website nitropack.io and spoke on live chat to Stan, who is replying once every 48 hours and with incomplete information.

    He first wrote:
    “The Images remain in their default extension (JPG) and we do not change or alter files names in webp.”

    Then I said to him that in your plugin description you mention that you convert images to webp.
    “Converted to WebP images will remain with their default JPG/JPEG extension.”

    So you convert images from jpeg/png to webp but you leave the jpeg extension?
    Also do you leave the same file name?
    And if you deactivate the plugin, the file goes back to jpeg/png?

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  • Plugin Author NitroPack

    (@nitropack)

    Hi @deon-b,

    Yes, in essence this is correct, but the details are slightly more complex. What is important is that we do convert every image to WebP, even though the extension of the file name remains the original one. Here is an example from our website.

    We also serve WebP only to browsers that support it, the rest of the browsers get the optimized version of the original file type.

    Also do you leave the same file name?

    Yes

    And if you deactivate the plugin, the file goes back to jpeg/png?

    Correct, we do not modify any of the original site files. Once you deactivate the plugin, the cache files from NitroPack are no-longer being used and the site goes back to its original state.

    Regards,

    Thread Starter Deon

    (@deon-b)

    Hi,
    thank you, this clarifies a lot. But I have one more question. When you transform the image in webp where is that image saved? it’s saved on my server or yours?

    Could you please explain me how this works?

    Plugin Author NitroPack

    (@nitropack)

    Hi @deon-b,

    All optimized (and converted) images are saved on our servers. Your server hosts only the HTML cache files.

    Regards,

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