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WEBP Images On FirstSite For Faster Loading
Sandra • Mar 01, 2020
FirstSite is now serving Webp images for all site images, which means your site images load more quickly. This change automatically boosts site performance and requires no additional effort at your end. We take care of everything, automatically and behind the scenes.
To check whether the images were served as WebP visit the Network tab and check the image type - see below.
Why WebP Images is great for your website
WebP is an image format developed by Google that provides lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using this format, images are smaller and richer than in other formats, which enables them to load more quickly. For example, WebP lossless images are 26% smaller than PNGs and 25-34% smaller than JPEG images. See this article on Google's developer site for more details.
One more way FirstSite is optimizing your images
In addition to converting JPEG and PNG files to WebP, we’re also adjusting the size of images so that they automatically fit their containers. It’s another effort we’re making, behind the scenes, so your sites load quickly and rank well on Lighthouse.
Available on all FirstSite sites
Winning on SEO
It's no secret that sites done on that FirstSite perform better on SEO and cost a lot less to build and maintain. If you are still wondering why some websites just perfom better than yours. Get in touch with 8 Connect Consulting.
Note:
- The change doesn't affect the image name
- SVGs and Gifs are not converted to WebP
- Safari doesn’t support WebP, so when your sites are delivered on this browser, images will be displayed in their original format.
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