I uploaded some animated webp files I created of some videos. I compressed them down to around 400KB and they look great. When uploading to Shopify it makes or serves ugly, pixelated animated gif versions instead that around 2.5MB! I understand it tries to serve images based on browser compatibility but my web browser Safari does support animated webp files and I can view these animations perfectly fine when I host the files on a different server.
Is there a way to prevent Shopify from deciding for us which files to serve? I want to completely disable it.
I could upload the images to another server but then I would not be taking advantage of Shopify’s CDN.
I can’t publish the link for now as the site is being developed behind a password protected page.
I can explain further here.
I have a file called snacking-anim.webp which is 353kb
When I upload this file to Shopify, either in the assets folder or Content/Files it creates a gif version called snacking-anim.webp.gif file which is 2.7MB and look significantly worse!
Here are links to both images so you can see the difference.
I want to use the original file I upload. I don’t want Shopify to touch it or create a different version I did not ask for. I realise I can upload the files to a location other than Shopify but then I won’t be able to take advantage of Shopify’s CDN.
