By Renee Levant on Sunday, 03 January 2021
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I am debating image formats to use and ways to compress images on easyblog and the rest of my website
I have always understood png's to be best especially for photos as they are lossless

I have generally used png for all photos and graphics and https://tinypng.com/ for compression
I also have JCHJCH Pro ([/b]installed and use it to compress images.

1. I am now reading that Jpeg's load faster and still look good and that new formats are even better such as jp2000 and WebP etc
should I be starting to use these formats? Will regular programs view convert to this format ?

2. Thinking about whether my site would benefit using Cloudflare and./or the image compression subscription for easyblog
a. with what I already do (above) would this actually reduce image sixes improve load times?
b. is there an advantage of one over the other?
The site I am working on is primarily local to my state and the US so a cdn worth it? the compression service via easyblog?

Thanks much I look forward to the "official" and non-official answers from more experienced developers
Renee
EasyBlog does not support webp yet at this point of time because Safari previously does not support webp. In their latest update, webp is now supported and moving forward we will look at supporting webp for EasyBlog.
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Monday, 04 January 2021 15:35
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Hello Renee,

To be honest, we always prefer jpeg because jpeg compressions are faster and its size is often smaller as compared to png. However, there are several school of thoughts and there isn't any one that is always right. An example would be transparent images. There is no way for you to create a transparent jpeg file as you can only do it with png.

If you are already using tinypng to compress images, then the compression service for EasyBlog would be redundant since the original image itself is already compressed / optimized.

Hope this helps!
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Sunday, 03 January 2021 15:32
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o you don't recommend webp format or jpeg2000?
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Monday, 04 January 2021 14:15
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