{"id":780,"date":"2024-05-07T11:43:12","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T11:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/docs\/spai-webp-support\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:43:22","password":"","slug":"spai-webp-support","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/spai-webp-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Settings &#8211; Next-gen Images Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t WebP and AVIF images are the next generations of image formats, specially designed for the web.&nbsp;WebP images are&nbsp;26%&nbsp;smaller in size compared to PNGs and&nbsp;25-34%&nbsp;smaller than comparable JPEG images, while&nbsp;AVIF promises images&nbsp;50% smaller than JPG, and still keeping the same image quality.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t Being a newer format, AVIF is less supported by browsers, so you should take it into account when enabling these options.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AVIF support: <a href=\"https:\/\/caniuse.com\/avif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AVIF image format | Can I use&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li>WebP support: <a href=\"https:\/\/caniuse.com\/webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WebP image format | Can I use&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\t <strong>We recommend you activate at least WebP<\/strong> (which is supported by almost all browsers) to benefit from less page weight and better SEO results unless you know you will have some compatibility issues.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t To learn more about WebP and AVIF, check out the following articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.shortpixel.com\/what-is-avif-and-why-is-it-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">What is AVIF and why is it good? &#8211; ShortPixel Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.shortpixel.com\/what-is-avif-and-why-is-it-good\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.shortpixel.com\/how-webp-images-can-speed-up-your-site\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How WebP images can speed up your (WordPress) site &#8211; ShortPixel Blog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WebP and AVIF images are the next generations of image formats, specially designed for the web.&nbsp;WebP images are&nbsp;26%&nbsp;smaller in size compared to PNGs and&nbsp;25-34%&nbsp;smaller than comparable JPEG images, while&nbsp;AVIF promises images&nbsp;50% smaller than JPG, and still keeping the same image quality. Being a newer format, AVIF is less supported by browsers, so you should take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[35],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-780","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-shortpixel-adaptive-images"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":158,"total_views":"855","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"admin","author_nicename":"admin_mdli53m5","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/admin_mdli53m5\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"ShortPixel Adaptive Images","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/shortpixel-adaptive-images\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2490,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/780\/revisions\/2490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}