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Serving lightweight WebP images can help boost your site speed, critical as both a ranking factor and as part of the user experience. Not too long ago, you needed a plugin to get WordPress to recognize WebP images at all. The release of WordPress 5.8 and its support for the WebP image format brought those days to an end.
Plugins still have a place when it comes to converting your existing images into the WebP format. EWWW Image Optimizer has support for generating WebP files and it’s one of our favorite image optimization plugins. EWWW also works very well with our WP Offload Media plugin.
In this article, we’ll look at a few different ways to convert existing images to WebP, including Google’s cwebp utility, the Squoosh app, and EWWW. We’ll also show you how to use EWWW and WP Offload Media together to offload your WebP image files to a cloud storage provider and free up server resources. Finally, we’ll set it up so everything is served through a CDN so we can pick up some serious speed. In other words…