WebP Images Uploading Very Slowly on WordPress: Need Help!

  • Resolved aashna11

    (@aashna11)


    1 month ago

    Hi everyone,

    I’m facing an issue with uploading .webp images to my WordPress site. Even though the file sizes are small (around 50KB), the upload process takes a very long time. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

    1. Increased PHP settings (upload_max_filesize, post_max_size, memory_limit, and max_execution_time) to make sure there are no server-side restrictions.
    2. Verified that my internet connection is stable (I was able to upload .glb files of about 2MB each, and they uploaded quickly, so it doesn’t seem to be a connection issue).
    3. Checked the file permissions and server configurations, but everything seems normal.

    Despite these adjustments, .webp images still take a lot longer to upload compared to other file types. Has anyone encountered a similar issue, or does anyone have suggestions on how to troubleshoot and fix this?

    I’m not from a coding background, so simple and clear instructions would be really helpful. Thanks in advance!

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  • Arkaprabha Chowdhury

    (@arkaprabhachowdhury)

    Hey @aashna11 , I just have a suggestion to use any sort of image optimizer plugin like Imagify or Smush. That could help reduce the uploading time for .webp images.

    Hope it helps!

    Eshaan Dabasiya

    (@im3dabasia1)

    Hey @aashna11 , Too summarise this issue can occur due to a variety of reasons but 2 which I can think of is you might be having some plugin which is either optimising the images uploaded in the site. This optimisation might be causing the time to be on the higher side. Optimisation can be compressing the image or resizing the image. Or perhaps you might be having some plugin which is doing some extensive search operation in the plugin making the overall media library slow. Which in turn gives you an impression of sluggishness of the image upload.

    Have you tried uploading some other image format? Like png or jpeg. Is this slow aswell?

    Some references which might be helpful
    Link1, Link2

    Thread Starter aashna11

    (@aashna11)

    @im3dabasia1 @arkaprabhachowdhury Hey guys! My issue has been resolved. I disabled the Imagify plugin on Hostinger, and everything is working fine now. Imagify was optimizing the WebP images, which caused a delay. Another option to speed up the process is to resize the images locally using magick mogrify commands. Thanks a lot for your help; I really appreciate it!

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