Magento 2 Convert Images to WebP Extension

Problem

Many store owners are concerned about the impact of JPG, PNG or JPEG images on the website speed and performance. As these types of images have large sizes that reduce the site loading speed & performance and take more storage space.

Solutions

Magento 2 Convert Images to WebP extension is the perfect solution for this concern of merchants. It helps optimize image sizes, enhancing store speed and saving lots of storage space for other data.

All in all, it gives customers an excellent surfing and browsing experience with your online stores. Also, it boosts your store’s SEO and it can rank higher on the search engine result pages.

MAGENTO 2 CONVERT IMAGES TO WEBP - DETAILED FEATURES

Automatically convert images to WebP format in a blink

Simply enable automatic converting images to WebP in the backend. There is no need to manually visit each place to upload WebP format anymore.

When uploading an image to your site with jpg, png, jpeg, etc., the Magento 2 extension Convert Images to WebP will automatically create Magento WebP images and save them to the server. At the same time, in the front end, the image URL is also converted to WebP format and replaces the original one.

On the other hand, when disabling the module, the displayed image will return to its original format.

choose page to convert images to WebP format

Freely choose a specific page to convert images to WebP format

Wondering whether to put every image on-site to WebP? Don't worry. Magento 2 WebP Images extension helps you pick the pages you want. There are 4 main page types you can configure:

Product Page
Category Page
Home Page
CMS Page

Not only that, but admin users can ignore specific images on each page type.

For example, you want to convert jpg to WebP on product pages, except for the images on T-shirt A's product page. All you need to do is fill in the product ID in the module backend. This feature enhances the flexibility of image optimization on your Magento 2 site.

Define image quality when converting

You can optimize the display of your WebP images by defining the WebP quality.

Image size reduction is used to result in image quality distortion inevitably. But everything is different now. This module makes it hard to distinguish between images taken before and after the conversion.

You can select from various quality settings when converting photos to WebP with the Magento 2 Convert Images to WebP extension. The default setting is 75.

It could be your decision, in turn, to optimize your WebP SEO and website load time. Additionally, unlock the advanced SEO Suite for Magento 2 and see the difference in site performance today!

Compatible with all browsers

It is straightforward to optimize images on your website into the WebP image format because most browsers support it.

However, specific browsers still don’t, leading to customers seeing broken graphics. Thus, if customers visit your website using outdated browsers, WebP image extension Magento 2 will automatically convert back to the original.jpg or.png images.

Also, this Magento 2 WebP extension is compatible with all browsers, including Safari 14.1 and above.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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What happens with the PNG or JPG images after being indexed? Do I lose our indexation of these images and will there be 404 errors?

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Release Note

Hyva compatible v1.0.2 (Jul, 22, 2024): Fix bug skip converting images at the Category page and converting wysiwyg images. (Hyva theme ver 1.3.9 with module version 1.0.7)
v1.0.7 (May 10, 2024): Compatible with version 2.4.7(Auto Generate on First Page Loading)
Hyva compatible v1.0.1 (Dec 1, 2023): Dicompile error when installing composer Hyva Theme
v1.0.6 (Nov 03, 2023): Fix bug compatibility with M2.3.x.
v1.0.5 (Sep 08, 2023): Update compatible with CDN.
Hyva compatible v1.0.0 (Jun 12, 2023): Update compatible with Hyva theme.
v1.0.4 (Jun 07, 2023):
- Update: Not converting images to <picture> tag when the image is ignored and not a product image
- Fix: Fix bugs when running cmd on Magento 2.4.6
v1.0.3 (Feb 21, 2023): Update converting child products' images of configurable products. Update converting images inserted via Page Builder. Fix bug showing duplicated images on related products/upsell products on the product page.
v1.0.2 (Nov 11, 2022): Update configuration names for more clear meaning. Update generating WebP images with image cache
v1.0.1 (Sep 6, 2022): Add config Auto Generate Webp Images to generate webp on first page loading; add a button to clear all existing webp images. Fix bug not converting first image with HTML to webp. Compatible with Magento 2 Lazy Load, Magento 2 Ajax Add to Cart, M2.3.x and Safari 14.1 and below.
v1.0.0 (May 6, 2022): First Release

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