Shopify automatically displays (allegedly) all images in webP format…but every page I do crawls main images like sliders etc as jpg, PNG, etc. WHY??? And how do I fix this? How is it that on a Shopify made theme (Dawn), these images are being crawled as heavier images, and then we get punished in rankings for having a lower insights score? Seems a little suspect to me. Can anyone please help with this? My guess is poorly written code, but again, on a heavily promoted Shopify in house theme? Hmmm…
if the browser can support webp than the cdn will deliver that content. For systems and browsers than don’t support it the original format will be used. This is the ideal situation to me so what’s suspect about that method?
More info on the CDN here:
https://cdn.shopify.com/
What report do you have showing a problem? Seeing a specific image example and what the crawler has said could be useful info.
I understand the browser sensitive approach and yes that is ideal. What’s
suspect is the fact that Google Page Insights, for example, reads the
images as their native format. Then, the images are actually cited as not
“using next gen image formats.” Then according to Google, ranking can be
affected by this flaw; the validity of which I’m honestly not sure.
Hopefully I’ve explained upon what criteria I’m using the word suspect.
Maybe it’s just an issue these scoring systems need to catch up to, and
affects nothing. I do not know, and I’m seeking an explanation. Thank you.