Using the AVIF Next-Generation Image Format on your Sites for Faster Loading Images

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Netflix has an amazing track record of pushing for technology changes that help the web and open-source projects. One of the more recent development pushes has been by Netflix is the AVIF next-generation image format. The AVIF image format is meant as a replacement for the JPEG image format but with better compression results. The…

Hey Sebastian, thanks for the informative article!
I just wanted to let you know that I created a batch converter for avif files: https://avif.io/
It’s completely free to use. The conversion is client-sided, so there is no uploading at all, for privacy reasons.
Feel free to add it to your article if you feel like it’s a great addition. :slight_smile:
Sincerely,
Justin

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Thanks for the info Justin.

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If using Polish in Cloudflare it now includes AVIF image format as well.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/generate-avif-images-with-image-resizing/

If using the ShortPixel CDN in the Autoptimize plugin image tab settings the AVIF image format is also supported.

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