WebP conversion

  • Resolved Will Stocks

    (@willstockstech)


    6 years, 10 months ago

    Hi guys,
    Is there any plan to include webp image conversion as part of Smush?
    Appreciate there’s a fair bit of work, but in terms of bandwidth, storage, speed and general image optimization, WebP seems to be pretty important?

    I’m looking at ways to implement webp conversion at the moment, so would be good to know if Smush is going to cater for this soon(ish)?

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  • Andy

    (@andywpmudev)

    Hi Will,

    Yes, WebP will be available in Smush pretty soon. Can’t give a solid ETA but it won’t be too much of a wait :). Keep an eye out!

    Cheers,
    Andy

    Thread Starter Will Stocks

    (@willstockstech)

    That’s great news, thanks Andy!
    Are you able to share any extra info around the upcoming functionality, such as:
    Will we be able to bulk convert existing images?
    Will Smush handle displaying WebP for sites or are we going to have to use something like “Cache Enabler” as per a lot of other plugins?
    If Smush is handing output of WebP images, I assume it will also handle graceful “fallback” to jpeg/png for non-webp users?
    Thanks ??

    Andy

    (@andywpmudev)

    I’ve just confirmed a few finer details with the team.

    1. Yes, although WebP will be a Pro only feature served from our CDN. I haven’t confirmed yet whether a free version of this will be available.
    2. Yes, it will handle the display of the WebP images.
    3. Yes, it will gracefully fallback to a Jpeg or PNG version.

    Hope this helps! Keen to hear your feedback ??
    Andy

    Thread Starter Will Stocks

    (@willstockstech)

    Thanks Andy – I’ll wait patiently for the functionality then.

    I do have a question around your point 1 – will there be the option to convert to webp, but not use your CDN? So for those of us that use S3/Cloudfront (WP Offload S3), we can still serve our content via our own CDN, as opposed to via your CDN? Or do you mean the conversion itself will be handled by your CDN/servers?

    Plugin Support Dimitris – WPMU DEV Support

    (@wpmudev-support6)

    Hello @willstockstech,

    hope you’re doing good today!

    Currently there’s no WPMUDEV CDN for hosting/serving images that got compressed via Smush, these are the servers that the actual compression happens. ??
    Smush is sending your images there, where it compresses them and then send them back into your server, if their file-size is smaller than initial image.

    Warm regards,
    Dimitris

    Andy

    (@andywpmudev)

    Hey Will,

    Just to add on from Dimitris response… The first version of WebP conversion will be converted and hosted on our WPMU DEV CDNs only, I don’t believe S3 will be supported. With that said however, I am putting it into the pipeline to support S3 and non-CDN hosted webp conversion.

    Understand that’s not ideal for your particular use case to begin with but I hope it won’t be long till we support it ??

    Cheers,
    Andy

    Thread Starter Will Stocks

    (@willstockstech)

    Perfect – thanks both! Looking forward to this one ??

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