This article is for all the bloggers who are using wordpress, So wordpress has released wordpress 5.8 version and the biggest thing that you should know is wordpress 5.8 brings webp support.
So you might be using jpeg or png image format. Now you can use webp format natively in wordpress and it is a big deal.
Especially google has made site speed as a ranking factor this is a very big deal and according to google owned test webp images are almost 30-35 percent smaller than the jpeg or other image format.
If you are on wordpress you should definitely start using webp images.
How do you start using web images?
So the very first thing you need to do is convert your png or jpeg image to webp image format and if you are using a mac, you're in luck because you can use this tool called webp converter.
Which is completely free and this is how it looks like
So you can simply add a file and it automatically converts jpeg jpg or png to webp.
Now that's not all, once you have converted your image into webp you can actually use any online tool like this one Webp Converter.
And convert this compress this webp images and when you tried this, it actually compressed another 50 which is significant and especially if you're using an image heavy blog or website this is going to change uh the overall speed of your website make it faster.
Which is going to have a significant impact on your user experience and also on your seo.
Webp Converter, convert our existing images into webp images by the way images are supported by all major browsers including safari now.
So there's no problem while using web images and yeah pretty much that's it for this post.