Everyone's approach to image compression

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The community members are discussing their approaches to image compression, particularly the use of AVIF format recommended by Webflow. Some have encountered issues with AVIF, such as it causing problems with Opengraph images. Others are impressed by AVIF's compression capabilities but are concerned about browser support. There are suggestions to keep Opengraph images in more widely supported formats like PNG and JPEG, and to be selective about which assets are optimized. The community members are experimenting with different compression formats on a per-project basis.

LLukas Stewart

What is everyone’s approach to the image compression. Webflow seems to recommend AVIF and is set to the default, but wondering if anyone has run into issues with browser support.?

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MMike

I noticed all my Opengraph images stopped working with AVIF too, so had update to webp.

LLukas Stewart

man that sucks. Im blown away by the AVIF sompression. its light years ahead of even Webp. but yeah the support has me concerned

MMike

Shame you can't select which assets to optimise through the CMS either, would be ideal if we could be selective

RRajan

Keep OG Images in PNG, JPEG since lot of Socials still not support Newer formats & those images will be not visible. eg: Linkedin

LLukas Stewart

Can you not upload unique opengraph images?

MMike

Yeah, I have fields dedicated to opengraph images now but have to educate clients not to use the optimise button because it changes every image.

MMike

Annoying workflow but uploading to assets folder first, optimise the ones you want to and keep opengraph separate.

LLukas Stewart

Do you use AVIF for everything else?

MMike

I mix it up per project just to test to be honest.

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Everyone's approach to image compression