Logo
  • Home
  • About Us
    • About UCT
    • UCT Social Feed
    • Vision & Mission
    • CEO Message
    • Team Members
  • Services
    • Technology / Solutions
      • Ecommerce Solutions
      • Website Design
      • Mobile Applications
      • ERP Solutions
      • CRM Solutions
      • Live Chat Solutions
      • Content Management Systems CMS
      • Web Development
      • Web Applications Development
      • Project Management Solutions
      • Social Marketing Solutions
      • Flash Applications Development
      • Servers & Web Hosting
      • Domain Name Registeration
      • Cloud Solutions
      • AI Solutions
      • IoT Development & integration
      • Software Integration
      • Content Delivery Network (CDN)
    • Marketing
      • Search engine Optimization SEO
      • Social Media Management Services
      • Online Reputation Management ORM
      • Social Media Marketing SMM
      • Content Copywriting
      • Search Engine Marketing SEM
      • Web Analytics & Statistics
      • SMS Marketing
      • Email Marketing
      • Postal Marketing
      • PPC Campaigns
    • Branding / Design Services
      • Corporate Profile
      • Branding & Logo Design
      • Company Presentation Development
      • Augmented Reality
      • 360 View Panoramic
      • Documentary Video
      • Online Branding
      • Graphic Design Services
      • Pre-Printing / Printing Services
      • Digital Catalogue
      • Virtual Reality (VR)
      • User Experience Consultancy (UX)
      • User Interface Design (UI)
    • Security & Fintech
      • IT Services Packages
      • IT Services & Consultancy
      • SSL Certificates & DNS Protection
      • Cybersecurity Solutions
      • Security Audits and Assessments
      • Firewall Implementation and Management
      • Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Protection
      • Web Application Firewall (WAF)
      • Data Mining Solutions
      • Local/International Payment Gateway Integration
      • E-commerce Payment Solutions
      • Mobile Payment Integration
      • Payment Security and Fraud Prevention
    • Solutions
      • Virtual Learning Platform
      • Law Firm CRM Platform
      • CRM Platform Solution “By UCT”
      • Project Management Solution “By UCT”
      • Business Directory Platform
      • SMS Marketing Platform
      • Email Marketing Platform
      • E-Commerce Platform Solution
      • 3D Virtual online Shop
      • Live Chat Solution
  • Creativity Blog
  • Contact Us
Logo

  • Phone

    +971 55 5150 283
  • Address

    Office 1603, Al Ameri Tower, Tecom (Barsha Heights), Dubai
  • Email

    info@uctme.com

Google’s New SEO Friendly Image Format: 6 Things You Should Know

  • Home
  • Google’s New SEO Friendly Image Format: 6 Things You Should Know
  • By
  • In Marketing & More

ecommerce-image-file-formatsOne of the most difficult roadblocks to overcome in ecommerce is the page-load speed. Studies show most visitors will leave a website that takes more than three seconds to load. That’s not a lot of time, especially if your site is heavy with rich media like images and videos. Search engines are also increasingly factoring page-load speed in determining what websites get ranked on organic search engine results pages. Now, however, Google has given us the new WebP image format. While you may sacrifice a little quality, you will get faster load times on images, which in turn boosts the loading times for your website. What else do you need to know about the new WebP format? Here are a few tips to help: 1) You Need the Right Tools for Editing If your goal is to post your own images in the WebP format, you should be just fine. Where you might run into trouble, however, is when you need to edit or manipulate an image that already bears the .webp extension. Many graphics software programs support WebP, like Picasa, PhotoLine, and ImageMagick. A plug-in is needed for Photoshop users before images can be edited. 2) Resolution Suffers While the images load faster, they do so at the expense of quality. Web developers love the new format, but only when the images used remain the same size as displayed on the site. If enlarged, users will see a distinct drop in quality as compared to JPEG images at the same size. 3) PNG to WebP Saves Even More If you can convert any of the PNG files on your website, you can move things along even more. When Google applied the changes to Google Play, they reduced the standard file size by 35%. How quickly would your website move if you trimmed 35% of the fat? 4) Firefox Doesn’t Support It You’ll still experience the same load times if you use Firefox as your browser. Because Mozilla is working on their own image format, they have no intention of welcoming WebP any time soon. 5) Google Puts Their Money Where Their Mouth Is Perhaps the most compelling piece of evidence is Google’s consistent use of their own product. As mentioned earlier, they’ve replaced files on Google Play, and they’ve also changed up the thumbnails on YouTube. By converting the JPEG thumbnails to WebP files, the site load time is 10% faster. 6) The Old Objections No Longer Apply If you’ve been following the saga, you probably read that the images took about eight times longer to encode than JPEG. That’s enough to scare anyone away from a new file format, right? Recent optimizations have reduced encoding times by 25%, so there’s less excuse to worry. The format is ready to use right now, as long as you’re planning use only for web use. Speed up those ecommerce sites in no time by making one simple change. You’ll see a big reduction in bounce rates when you get those load times under three seconds. Are you planning to give the .webp extension a shot? Let us know how you like it!     By:  Ted Ammon

Google Announces New “Starfish” Algorithm Update for Ecommerce SEO
Successful Subject Lines Deconstructed

All Categories

  • Company Profile Development
  • Website Development
  • Branding & Identity
  • Mobile App Development
  • Ecommerce (online shop)
  • Logo & Graphic Design
  • Digital Marketing Consultancy
  • High End Creativity
  • Professional Design
  • UCT Blog
    • Design & More
    • Marketing & More
    • AI Tech
    • Technology & More
    • Out-Of-Box

Tags

Adobe After Effects (AE) AI Aluminium artificial intelligence (AI) Augmented Reality Augmented Reality (AR) Brand Identity Branding Identity Brochure business businesses Case Study Company Profile Contracting Corporate Profile creative technology CRM Design digital marketing Dubai E-commerce E-Marketing Financial Flyer Glass Graphic Designer Ideas Live Chat Logo Design Marketing New Features Prequalification Document Presentation Process Riyadh Saudi Arabia Security Seo Social Media Software technology Thinking UAE Web Design Website Development

About

Welcome to UCT (Unlimited Creative Technology LLC), your technology partner providing comprehensive solutions and services to businesses of all sizes, from corporations to small and medium enterprises.

Services

  • Technology
  • Marketing
  • Design
  • Solutions

Company

  • About
  • Meet our Team
  • Our Clients
  • Creativity Blog
  • Contact

Contact

  • Address

    Office 1603, Al Ameri Tower, Tecom (Barsha Heights), Dubai
  • Email

    info@uctme.com
  • Phone

    +971 55 5150 283 / +971 50 774 8105

© Copyrights 2023 Unlimited Creative Technology

Logo