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Facilitate serving properly sized images in next-gen formats #5788

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westonruter opened this issue Jan 19, 2021 · 3 comments
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Facilitate serving properly sized images in next-gen formats #5788

westonruter opened this issue Jan 19, 2021 · 3 comments
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westonruter commented Jan 19, 2021

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One of the most significant performance problems with webpages is heavy images which are sized too large for display (e.g. full size in an image which is better suited for medium) and which are using inefficient formats (e.g. JPEG instead of WebP):

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This gets raised in the support forum, as well as via the AMP Page Experience guide. As part of incorporating the PX guide into the plugin (#5679), we should do its same checks for whether modern properly-sized images are being served, and if not, provide guidance on how to do so. One easy remedy is to enable the Site Accelerator image CDN (aka Photon) in Jetpack, or to recommend one of the other reputable image optimization plugins (e.g. Cloudinary).

There could be a Site Health test that links over to a documentation page on amp-wp.org.


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@westonruter westonruter added Performance WS:Core Work stream for Plugin core labels Jan 19, 2021
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This is a natural next step after tests for object caching (#5780) and page caching (#4386).

@westonruter westonruter added this to the v2.3 milestone Oct 26, 2021
@westonruter westonruter added the P0 High priority label Oct 26, 2021
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Images are some of the absolute worst offenders for frontend performance, so this makes sense to prioritize.

@westonruter westonruter modified the milestones: v2.3, v2.4 Dec 23, 2021
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This makes more sense to be tackled in https://github.com/WordPress/performance

@westonruter westonruter modified the milestone: v2.4 Apr 14, 2022
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