# Use webp images for posts **URL:** \ **Category:** Ideas\ **Tags:** šŸš¢-shipped\ **Created:** [April 8, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710 "2019-04-08T21:09:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![giacomosilli](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/giacomosilli/32/3403_2.png) [@giacomosilli](https://forum.ghost.org/u/giacomosilli)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2019, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/1 "2019-04-08T21:09:43Z")
Are you working on the possibility of using the new .webp format on Ghost? It could be a useful future optimization [More info](https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/) ---
**Author:** ![leszek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@leszek](https://forum.ghost.org/u/leszek)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 8:44pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/2 "2019-08-05T20:44:01Z")
Any update in that subject? šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Fathul](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/fathul/32/2727_2.png) [@Fathul](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Fathul)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2020, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/3 "2020-03-16T09:56:28Z")
Up up up Waiting for updating this thread šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![Simbob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/simbob/32/7940_2.png) [@Simbob](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Simbob)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 8:24am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/4 "2020-05-29T08:24:02Z")
yes, we need this šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![thimiraonline](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/thimiraonline/32/22599_2.png) [@thimiraonline](https://forum.ghost.org/u/thimiraonline)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2020, 5:21am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/5 "2020-05-30T05:21:51Z")
We need webp. ---
**Author:** ![mbedded](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mbedded/32/6547_2.png) [@mbedded](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mbedded)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/6 "2020-07-23T21:06:22Z")
I guess something linke +1 is not able here but it would be very useful. I tested some images and i was able to half or 1/3 their disk space which improves the browsing speed a lot! The issue was posted 2 years ago and nothing happened: [No support for webp images Ā· Issue #9448 Ā· TryGhost/Ghost Ā· GitHub](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/9448) I would appreciate the support of webp or jpeg 2000 a lot! I hope this is added soon. The CMS donā€™t need to do anything. Just upload the file, set a link to the image and thats itā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![mbedded](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mbedded/32/6547_2.png) [@mbedded](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mbedded)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2020, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/7 "2020-07-25T07:52:58Z")
Addition to my last post because there is no ā€œeditā€ button: Youā€™re able to create your webp-image and just rename it. Eg from `img01.webp` to `image01.jpg` and ghost is able to use the image. When you check your browser (developer tools) you can see that a webp-image is returned and the metadata is correct, too. Even if there is a wrong extension the browser is able to display the image. So you can (temporary) bypass the ā€œonly extension gif, jpg, pngā€¦ are supportedā€ error message. ---
**Author:** ![GainfulShrimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc79bd/32.png) [@GainfulShrimp](https://forum.ghost.org/u/GainfulShrimp)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 8:36am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/8 "2020-08-13T08:36:18Z")
The problem with delivering _only_ webp format images, is that theyā€™re not compatible with either Safari or IE. So, as things stand, assuming your site is visited by the usual cross section of browsers, only ~79% of your readers will see your webp imagesā€¦ ā˜¹ > **[Can I use... Support tables for HTML5, CSS3, etc](https://caniuse.com/#search=webp)** > > "Can I use" provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers. Hence, itā€™s not trivial to support webp, because you need to be able to serve **both** the less-efficient-but-more-compatible images (gif, jpg, png) **and** webp, using the most efficient format for the visitorā€™s browser, depending on whether it supports webp. Implementing this can be done - e.g. checking for the presence of the `Accept: image/webp` request header, but obviously this complicates things compared to just serving the same image for everyone. When Safari 14 is released (later this year I think), webp should be accepted by a good chunk more of the different browsers in use, but youā€™re still going to be excluding some of your audience from seeing your images unless you properly integrate webp with a fallback to a traditional image format. My current solution is to use ngx-pagespeed in front of ghost, which is great and offers loads of optimisation capabilities above just webp images, but itā€™s a bit technical to set up. [https://www.modpagespeed.com/doc/build\_ngx\_pagespeed\_from\_source](https://www.modpagespeed.com/doc/build_ngx_pagespeed_from_source) ---
**Author:** ![mbedded](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/mbedded/32/6547_2.png) [@mbedded](https://forum.ghost.org/u/mbedded)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/9 "2020-09-11T14:22:07Z")
I agree that there could be issues with Safari-Users but I donā€™t care of any IE user anymore TBH. For my understand: You (as the author of your blog) want to publish images. To have a good loading time yout want to use webp which is often a lot (up to 1/3 of original size) smaller than jpg for example. I agree that users which are not aware of webp ā€œissuesā€ (some browsers are not able to display webp) and you should inform them. As a ā€œpower userā€ i want to use small files to increase my page loading speed. Today (2020-09-11): Only IE is not support webp and it never will be. MS marked IE offical as obsolete and forces users to use edge (chrome based). ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/0/0a5e1af8dd179ef3a5c7128c0da9c3b4bf20e7e4.png) Support for OS X will be added soon, so there is no issue eitherā€¦ And the server does not care what it has to deliver. When i say: Deliver those static files it doesnā€™t care of it is an jpg, png, pdf of 5 GB zip file. it just serves this to the client. So why would the server bother to serve ā€œbothā€ files? There is only ā€œoneā€ file. The one file i added in my article. The one file that i uploaded. The one file i linkedā€¦ EDIT: As i said above. I change the file extension to jpg (even if the file is webp) and everything works fine and i can use much smaller files. Itā€™s a ā€œdirty hackā€ but it works. Especially when your landing page has 6-7 images of your blog-posts and each of them has only 80 kb instead of 250 kb. ---
**Author:** ![Jack](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/jack/32/11078_2.png) [@Jack](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Jack)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2021, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/10 "2021-01-16T02:31:59Z")
Iā€™ll second this, would be great to be able to use the webp variants I use elsewhere around the non-Ghost portions of my site. ---
**Author:** ![Seb](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/seb/32/7983_2.png) [@Seb](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Seb)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 7:03pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/11 "2021-02-18T19:03:03Z")
Hi, I think .webp support is long overdue. The format is currently supported on ALL of the major browsers and [92%](https://caniuse.com/webp) of internet users browsers. It could also be combined with the [picture](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/picture) tag (Supported by all of the major browsers and compatible with [95%](https://caniuse.com/?search=Picture) of internet users browsers) to enable support for future image formats like AVIF in the future and at the same time serve older formats like jpg and png. ---
**Author:** ![2Max](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/2max/32/12763_2.png) [@2Max](https://forum.ghost.org/u/2Max)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/13 "2021-04-17T11:41:43Z")
> [@mbedded](#): > > EDIT: As i said above. I change the file extension to jpg (even if the file is webp) and everything works fine and i can use much smaller files. Itā€™s a ā€œdirty hackā€ but it works I also changed extension to jpg and it works. Anybody has information about this ? Why is it a dirty hack ? What is impact on image or loading or quality ? ---
**Author:** ![denvergeeks](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/denvergeeks/32/7401_2.png) [@denvergeeks](https://forum.ghost.org/u/denvergeeks)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2021, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/14 "2021-04-17T16:23:12Z")
Wow this is a cool workaround. Thanks @mbedded! ---
**Author:** ![curiousdungbeetle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/curiousdungbeetle/32/8897_2.png) [@curiousdungbeetle](https://forum.ghost.org/u/curiousdungbeetle)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/15 "2021-07-07T09:00:49Z")
This looks implemented in [4.9.0](https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/releases/tag/v4.9.0) ---
**Author:** ![jeremielondon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/jeremielondon/32/31714_2.png) [@jeremielondon](https://forum.ghost.org/u/jeremielondon)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/16 "2021-07-07T18:01:23Z")
yes it seems like it, now the question is how to convert all the images and make ghost read them ā€¦ ? I think i have part of the answer with this commands that convert all the pictures : > for F in \*.jpg; do cwebp $F -o `basename ${F%.jpg}`.webp; done but then how to make ghost read all the webp instead of jpg or png ? ---
**Author:** ![Peleke](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/peleke/32/2641_2.png) [@Peleke](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Peleke)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2021, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/17 "2021-07-29T18:20:53Z")
I also would be interested in converting all existing images to webp with working links without too much manual work. ---
**Author:** ![buarle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/buarle/32/12209_2.png) [@buarle](https://forum.ghost.org/u/buarle)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2021, 7:52am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/18 "2021-08-03T07:52:54Z")
work around might be converting the images but keeping the file extension to the current. The browser usually recognizes that itā€™s webp and is able to show it. Another thing would be manual work within the database with something like search and replace of the fileextension. but iā€™m not into mySQL to muchā€¦ Best, Markus ---
**Author:** ![Yaroslav\_Bulatov](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/yaroslav_bulatov/32/14033_2.png) [@Yaroslav\_Bulatov](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Yaroslav_Bulatov)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/19 "2021-09-14T12:14:38Z")
It seems when I upload animated webp files, Ghost automatically converts it into a still image. Is this by design, or is this a bug? ---
**Author:** ![naz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/naz/32/30666_2.png) [@naz](https://forum.ghost.org/u/naz)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/20 "2021-09-14T14:55:09Z")
This wold need some investigation. Might be that the image optimization lib picks it up and removes animation (found [this issue](https://github.com/lovell/sharp/issues/2648) describing similar behavior). If you find thatā€™s the case would be cool to open an issue on GH ;) ---
**Author:** ![Caucasus-and-Mercury](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/caucasus-and-mercury/32/2467_2.png) [@Caucasus-and-Mercury](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Caucasus-and-Mercury)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710/21 "2021-09-14T15:12:14Z")
I do know this is the case when using cloudflareā€™s image optimization. Animated webp are frozen in the first frame. [Next page](https://forum.ghost.org/t/use-webp-images-for-posts/6710.md?page=2)