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A new approach to using WebP images for your website without complicated setups
4 points by bennythink 2298 days ago
WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web, producing smaller files of comparable image quality to PNG/JPEG.

How to migrate to WebP smoothly is somewhat a problem. It's not a wise choice to convert all our pictures to WebP and change all the related urls.

Finally, we've created a tool for this purpose - it's single binary, blazing fast, and of course, convert JPEG/PNG to WebP ON THE FLY.

You open a website contains any JPEG/PNG photos, we'll convert you big file to tiny WebP file on the fly so you don't have to change the url - everything stays the same except for file size, content-type and performance of your website.

This is just so simple as it ever should be. If you‘re interested, check and give a star at the following url:

https://github.com/webp-sh/webp_server_go