Does the Modern Image Formats feature create similar results as Imagify?

I asked an AI chat I have access to and here is the reply.

Imagify and Performance Lab’s Modern Image Formats are both WordPress plugins that aim to optimize images on your website, but they do this in slightly different ways.

Imagify is a plugin that focuses on compressing your images to reduce their file size, with options to choose between lossless and lossy compression. It also offers a bulk optimization feature that allows you to optimize all your images at once. Imagify maintains most of the popular image formats like JPG, PNG, and GIF.

Performance Lab’s Modern Image Formats, on the other hand, focuses on converting your images to modern formats like WebP. WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. By using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster.

In essence, while both plugins aim to make your website faster by reducing the size of your images, they do so in different ways: Imagify does it through compressing your images, and Performance Lab’s Modern Image Formats does it by converting your images to a more efficient format.

Many thanks for sharing your findings when checking AI! The response above it correct in that is the Modern Image format plugin can generate more efficient image formats, achieved during uploading of any images. It’s also a free plugin developer by the WordPress core team, with updates and future developments available for review on GitHub.

Imagify has some different features, such as bulk processing images and an interface from where you can apply various optimizations as you wish.

We use both ‘Modern Image Formats’ and ‘Media Library Folders PRO’ and disabled all other image manupulating plug-ins. This works perfect on our server that has Imagick present. So the service does not use external services. Perfect.

Fact is that creating the .avif versions takes a lot of time, much more then the .webp versions. We can not find out why. And there are more .webp versions created then .avif versions.

WordPress generates now an image of the first page of .pdf files when uploading. The images are not generated when using the ‘regenerate’ tool in MLFP. All other work fine for .webp and .avif versions in combination with ‘Modern Image Formats’ .

The image processing of WpOptimize generates ‘resmushit’ pics. Default the original is deleted after 50 days. That was terrible. You have to manualy delete folders, as with image converter plugin. And do not forget to disable image processing settings!

Great Plugin and functionality !!

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