Next-Gen Images in WordPress [Step by Step Guide]
Join Tyler as he walks through how to serve next-gen images using WordPress. Tyler shows how any website owner or webmaster can seamlessly begin serving their visitors WebP images without spending money, writing code, or hiring a developer. Serve next-gen images on your website in less than 30 minutes using his walk-through.
If you’ve run a Google Pagespeed Insights report on your website recently it’s likely that you’ve seen “serve images in next-gen formats” as a recommendation. Next-gen image formats are file formats that often include compression information embedded in modern browsers that allow website images to be loaded faster. So, how do you serve them on your WordPress website to make it faster?
If your site uses WordPress as a CMS it is likely that you have most of your images saved in your media section as JPEGs, GIFs, and PNGs. This doesn’t have to change to serve images in next-gen formats. In fact, many browsers cannot properly load next-gen formats, like WebP, and require the website to be able to serve a standard image type, like JPEG, if the browser doesn’t support next-gen image formats.
Serving next-gen images in the way I will show you does not require you to replace or change any existing image files on your website. This is typically what confuses webmasters and keeps many sites from properly serving next-gen image formats. Most websites are familiar with popular image formats like JPEG and PNG. Both of these file formats can still be used while also serving visitors next-gen image formats when they visit your WordPress website in browsers that support these emerging file types.
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