Performance Team Proposes Enabling WebP by Default in WordPress 6.0
WordPress’ Performance Team has published a feature proposal that would enable WebP images by default, expanding core support for the modern image format. In July, 2021, WordPress 5.8 introduced WebP support, allowing users to upload and use WebP images in their content. If the proposal is approved, version 6.0 will generate WebP images by default for new JPEG uploads and will use WebP images by default for website content. “WebP was developed as a modern image format that provides superior compression on the web,” WordPress core contributor Adam Silverstein said in the feature proposal. “Images are often some of the largest resources used by websites, and using WebP creates websites that are lighter and faster. Compared to JPEG images, WebP images generated by WordPress are almost always smaller, with a ~30% file size reduction on average (with the same visual quality).”  With WebP enabled by default, WordPress users would not experience any changes to their usual image upload workflow. WordPress would automatically convert JPEG uploads to WebP in the background and use them on the website. According to Can I Use, the WebP image format is supported by 94.25% of web browsers. A very small number of browsers, such as Internet Explorer…
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