September 2022

Magento - WebP image format conversion

An introduction to image optimisation in Magento Northern Ireland

Image Optimisation is an increasingly important step improve page speed and search engine performance of your Magento store. Having a lot of unoptimised image can slow your website and increasingly Google has used website performance, and more specifically image formats as a marker.

WebP part of a new generation of image format that compresses the image size without sacrificing quality. There are a number of Magento plugins that can be easily set-up to help your website transition tot the new formats without having to manually edit images yourself.

Plugins

FME Magento Extensions → fmeextensions.com

The Magento 2 WebP Images plugin reduces the size, without compromising quality, of conventional image formats by converting them to an advanced and lightweight WebP format.

MageComp → magecomp.com

Magento 2 WebP Image Converter will convert all the website images into lower-size WebP images with no compromise in image quality, improving user experience and SEO performance with faster loading.

MageFan → magefan.com

Magento 2 WebP is the that allows you to reduce the size of images by converting them to next-generation image format improving your website performance.