Should I start using webp format?
Should I start using webp format?
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- yuekit1
It really depends how much you care about optimizing your download time. As annoying as WebP is, you can get to a small file size more easily than with other formats.
This could be useful for sites that are trying to optimize every last detail of their site for SEO reasons. However if you are a photographer you probably want to showcase high-quality images of your work, so you might not care so much about that.
If using WebP, I think the best practice these days would be to use the picture tag and provide both a WebP file and also a JPG or PNG as a fallback, since not all browsers support it. If you are using WordPress or another CMS a plugin might take care of this for you as utopian said.