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What is the best image optimisation strategy for WordPress? What size and format do you use?
I am thinking of using images in webp format. Is that a good thing to do? What formats do you use for you blog without making the page heavy?
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Depends on the server: does it properly serve the WebP images (ie, identified as an image type, and no as some random binary data)? Otherwise, yes, WebP makes smaller images (Reddit/Imgur routinely serves images as Webp)
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It is a standard hosting package. I have tried webp on it and it works fine.
I have a few webp doubts
1. Do we need to set Alpha Quality to 100 always? Reducing will affect the quality?
2. Do we need to save the colour profile?
3. Does declaring the " Source Type " as "Photo " help?
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Last day, I built an animated .webp using GIMP, it was very heavy. But an online service had it optimised and gave it around 1 MB. I think GIMP's output was around 3+ MB in that case.
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Depends what you compress. I have an animation, fresh out of Gimp.
- Export to GIF: 684K
- Export to WebP (lossless) from Gimp: 118K
- Convert the GIF above to WebP using your site: 134K
So, Gimp is better, in that case.