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Improving the Core Web Vitals for your WordPress site is one of the best ways to boost its rank in Google. Serving “next-gen images” is one of the more frequent recommendations for getting those scores up, as fast loading images means users spend less time waiting for pages to load. In this article, we’ll discuss how to use AVIF and other next-gen image formats with WordPress, even if they aren’t natively supported.
There are four steps to using next-gen image formats with WordPress:
Register the image’s MIME type with WordPress