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Fast-Loading Images for Pages and Social Sharing
Brian Sooy • Mar 03, 2020
Websites Made Simple optimizes every image for every device for fast loading and
It’s always a best practice to down sample your images for quality and pixel dimensions before uploading, but what if you’re using the library of free images included with every Aespire Websites Made Simple website?
The problem is many images you can download from sites like Unsplash or Pexels are high-resolution images that are intended for print and web. When you search for free images from inside the editor, you’re often installing an image that’s wider than the 1920x1280 maximum recommended pixel dimension, but not optimized to be smaller than 400 kilobyte.
If that sounds geeky, don’t worry — AWMS offers several site-building features that make images load fast because they are automatically sized for the device (desktop, tablet, or phone) and optimized for even faster loading with WebP, which means your site images load more quickly
WebP images on all AWMS sites for faster loading
Aespire Websites Made Simple is now serving Webp images for all site images, which means your site images load more quickly. This change automatically boosts site performance and requires no additional effort at your end. We take care of everything, automatically and behind the scenes.
To check whether the images were served as WebP visit the Network tab and check the image type — see below.
To check whether the images were served as WebP visit the Network tab and check the image type — see below.
Why WebP is great for your website images
- WebP is an image format developed by Google that provides lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using this format, images are smaller and richer than in other formats, which enables them to load more quickly. For example, WebP lossless images are 26% smaller than PNGs and 25-34% smaller than JPEG images. See this article on Google's developer site for more details.
- In addition to converting JPEG and PNG files to WebP, we’re also adjusting the size of images so that they automatically fit their containers. It’s another effort we’re making, behind the scenes, so your sites load quickly and rank well on Lighthouse.
- In every new site you build, images will now be in WebP format. For all existing sites, simply republish the site and the images will be automatically converted.
- The change doesn't affect the image name
- SVGs and Gifs are not converted to WebP
- Safari doesn’t support WebP, so when your sites are delivered on this browser, images will be displayed in their original format.
Enhanced Social Sharing and Image Editing
The editor is accessible via any image on your site and contains dozens of easy-to-use image editing capabilities. Among other things, you can:
- Resize
- Rotate images
- Add filters
- Adjust shadows
- Zoom in and out
- And much more!
Add a Custom Social Graph Image for Any Page
Add unique images to be shared on social networks for every page in your site (OpenGraph)!
- When a specific site page is shared on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, the page will appear with the relevant image you set for it.
- Not only does this make the page share more attractive, it also boosts SEO.
- The Share Image per page supports Dynamic Pages, which means that you can select any image from your Collection and connect it to the social image in your Dynamic Page.
- To preview how your pages appear in social sharing, we recommend pasting the published URL to metatags.io
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