Billy_Lindon Posted May 5, 2022 Share Posted May 5, 2022 Been following this thread for over 2 years now. STILL NO WEBP! - It's absolutely shocking to me. Wix's presence at BrightonSEO and their focus on SEO improvements is making it harder and harder to recommend Squarespace to clients. No .webP support is seriously hurting right now. I'm not sure I can justify recommending SS anymore. Sad and annoying. CooksBay, ryannell, IamLovely and 2 others 5 Link to comment
DV2 Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 I've become quite concerned reading through this thread. The fact that sqsp has spent so much effort developing Fluid Engine (which seems to scramble the DOM) and has neglected WebP format makes me worry about their priorities. CooksBay, ryannell, Billy_Lindon and 5 others 8 Link to comment
Guest Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 (edited) Squarespace still hasn't implemented WebP support while places like Wix automatically convert to WebP when using certain galleries because there are only advantages to WebP (See study here). Where are Squarespaces priorities, it's been two years from when someone first brought it up in this forum. Edited July 12, 2022 by Brandon05 Spelling Link to comment
seanhoyt Posted July 22, 2022 Share Posted July 22, 2022 (edited) On 7/12/2022 at 12:19 PM, Brandon05 said: Squarespace still hasn't implemented WebP support while places like Wix automatically convert to WebP I develop on Webflow which supports webp. But, I have a large commerce site in sqsp 7.0. I sell photography. Webp is a pretty big deal if I can cut out 2/3 of the site's meat. I'm looking at a few files I did for comparison. The jpeg fed into jpegmini is 1.3MB. The webp at 65 compression is 500KB. I do a compare and there's not a noticeable difference in quality. RE: Fluid Engine and 7.1 in general, It's clear that Squarespace's mission is: "Design anything without knowing how to design". Feels like it makes designers' lives harder but I need to probe further into FE. Edited July 22, 2022 by seanhoyt Brainbuster 1 Link to comment
AltitudeDesign Posted September 28, 2022 Share Posted September 28, 2022 Squarespace are you able to give us an update on when we will be able to upload WEBP images? CooksBay 1 Link to comment
SakariCreatives Posted October 20, 2022 Share Posted October 20, 2022 We need WebP soon! It is crucial to keep the site loads quick with better image compression. IamLovely, CooksBay, Brainbuster and 1 other 4 Link to comment
IamLovely Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Has anyone actually heard from SQSP on this? CooksBay 1 Link to comment
AltitudeDesign Posted November 18, 2022 Share Posted November 18, 2022 Squarespace could we have an update to when we should expact WEBP images to be enabled? CooksBay and emm.farines 2 Link to comment
monsieurcoton Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 (edited) It's Xmas ! Please, Squarespace could we have an update ? Edited December 21, 2022 by monsieurcoton CooksBay 1 Link to comment
A_Simplyawesometrips Posted March 2 Share Posted March 2 I want to second this. We have seen a real drop in our search rankings and Google consistently knocks us for not using next gen formatting. If you need to post lots of pictures on your site like us (travel site) you can reduce size and optimize jpegs only so far and they are still a lot of data. Brainbuster, CooksBay, emm.farines and 1 other 4 Link to comment
Padley Posted April 5 Share Posted April 5 It does seem that this thread has been going on for a bit too long now without an update for this... especially as the platform themselves use WebP as the format for their primary image on their website. This does seem like it's time for some sort of support, so that we can all benefit from the advances that they themselves seem to see the value in. Brainbuster, CooksBay, emm.farines and 2 others 5 Link to comment
sorca_marian Posted April 7 Share Posted April 7 Any update about Webp? emm.farines, CooksBay and TMFL 3 Contact me for development work - I’m a Freelancer Software engineer and architect Squarespace Tutorials for free - YouTube📹 Manage Tasks & Notes Easily Squarespace Custom Web Development & Design 😀 Message me if you need custom features or a new website created Link to comment
Billy_Lindon Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Over 3 years now and STILL no .webP support from squarespace. All browsers now support the format. Our competitors are killing us on page-loading performance and ranking higher in search results. So, thanks SQSP for perpetuating the FACT that your platform is bad for SEO. It's infuriating that you utilised .webP on your own home page but deny it for your own customers!https://media-www.sqspcdn.com/images/pages/homepage/jun-2022/hero/nina/background/background-3-375.webp Shameful and demonstrates the contempt you have for us. CooksBay, TMFL, Brainbuster and 2 others 5 Link to comment
AlexaSkin Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 Is there any intention on the roadmap to make Webp images accepted via Squarespace? I have a fairly image dense site and could really do with reducing page load - I've seen the availability on a lot of competitor sites using Wordpress - surely it's not too hard to implement. CooksBay 1 Link to comment
SEOSpace_Henry Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 WebP would really help the SEO on Squarespace; some of my blogs have a lot of images and need speeding up! emm.farines, ryannell, CooksBay and 2 others 5 Henry Purchase Founder of SEOSpace - the leading Squarespace SEO experts. Creator of the SEO plugin for Squarespace. Link to comment
manos Posted May 5 Share Posted May 5 I have a photography page and everyone moving to webp. What about us? CooksBay 1 Link to comment
whitewitchzita Posted May 22 Share Posted May 22 Hi I have also come to this page in search of a solution to the fact that I am unable to upload Webp image types. The thing is that the speed of my page loading is causing my website to have completely lost its sales. I am a small business owner, who is also a single parent family trying to put food on the table and a roof over our heads. The fact that my page performance is showing 29% for speed performance and over 90% for all other scores such as accessibility, SEO and Best practises. I worked so many hours and so hard to achieve this but I am at a loss now. Loosing money and losing customers. Surely not having this function at this stage makes square space not fit for function and we should get some kind of compensation for our losses and the work we have put in. Especially as all these requests have not even been acknowledged. ryannell and emm.farines 2 Link to comment
inkfly Posted June 20 Share Posted June 20 This is my first time being on these forums in over a year, I just wanted to see if there was any update on WebP support....seriously Squarespace? Nothing? Why. Are. You. Not. Supporting. WebP? This is so comically stupid at this point. As a visual communications teacher I'm actively telling my students to NOT to use Squarespace for their online portfolios. iPhoneIntact, TMFL, creedon and 3 others 6 Link to comment
ryannell Posted June 30 Share Posted June 30 Our web speed test results always make for brutal reading. Please please please Squarespace, give us a sign, and support WebP! iPhoneIntact 1 Link to comment
websites Posted July 7 Share Posted July 7 Please please please, it's JULY 2023 emm.farines and CooksBay 2 Link to comment
CooksBay Posted July 8 Share Posted July 8 I'm stunned that we've been asking for this for YEARS and there has still not been an update/announcement on SS's plan for new gen images. I have created around 20 websites on Squarespace for clients and I think I'm going to have to migrate to something else soon. Speed test on my latest website attached - it's ridiculous. TMFL, sorca_marian and emm.farines 3 Link to comment
emm.farines Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 (edited) Hi everyone, Tired of coming back to this thread periodically and waiting for Squarespace to implement .webp, I have raised a feature request in the support section, underlining that it was adding salt to injury to see that the current Squarespace website's home page is using a .webp image. I've received the following response: Quote We don't currently support the upload of .webp images, but I've sent your suggestion to our development team on your behalf. While we can't guarantee implementation of every suggestion, customer feedback is an important part of how we continue to improve our platform, so we appreciate your input. Perhaps if all of us request this then the message will get across? Edited August 25 by emm.farines theheadshotlab_com 1 Link to comment
inkfly Posted August 25 Share Posted August 25 ...Every single browser (except IE) can use .WebP. Why does Squarespace not implement this? This thread was created over 3 years ago. I mean you HAVE to eventually, so can we at least get an update? Link to comment
creedon Posted August 26 Share Posted August 26 (edited) On 8/25/2023 at 4:42 PM, inkfly said: ...Every single browser (except IE) can use .WebP. This isn't a browser issue but a server side issue and I suspect a low adoption rate (at present) issue. On the server side SS would have to add another image format parser and compressors to handle the multiple images SS creates everytime you upload an image file. As I understand WebP usage rates as of this date less than 10% of sites use the webp format. SS may feel that such a low adoption rate doesn't justify the effort to update their image processing stack. Don't get me wrong! I want WebP too! Here is an interesting note. If you (royal) were using a traditional web service, where you uploaded files to a server, this wouldn't even be an issue. Those old school systems are fairly neutral as their main job is to serve files out to the clients. So when a "new" file format comes along, the servers don't care they just pump it out. It's up to the client to interpret the file and render it if it can. Of course SS is not old school and insultates you from a lot of the madness of old school web serving. SS being a high level web service has some downsides and this webp issue is one of them. The only thing I can suggest is contact customer support and get your feature request in the queue. Edited 44 minutes ago by creedon Find my contributions useful? Please like, upvote, mark my answer as the best ( solution ), and see my profile. Thanks for your support! I am a Squarespace ( and other technological things ) consultant open for new projects. Link to comment
glossboss Posted October 25 Share Posted October 25 Has there been any update on this thread or the development of webp option for Squarespace? Im getting destroyed on Google due to lack of webp image files. Hoping SS is deploying an auto-convert option for all our images?! Link to comment
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