For the past few weeks I’ve been trying out webp images.

99% of the times when I convert PNG images to WEBP , the WEBP is smaller.

However, JPG —> WEBP , the WEBP is NOT smaller.

I used GIMP whatever is the latest version.

It’s bad enough that when I upload an image, there are different sizes in the uploads directory. Now when I upload a JPG or PNG…it will make a copy in WEBP? So two of every image at least?

I do not like that, will it do different image sizes as well for the WEBP?

I use JPG = photos, PNG = graphics (non-photos).

I converted all PNGs to WEBPs.

One of my sites has 300-ish flags of every country and sort of not really recognized regions. It’s for a weather section.

So each page has the flag of the country beside the flag of the city plus the map (with a pin pointing to the location of the map in the country).

I don’t want WordPress to do multiple image sizes or/and multiple image formats.

Let ME upload a jpg, webp, png or even gif.

Do people still use gif?

I also have a photography site, I think I have over 3.5 million photos. This is what happens when you have a photography site since 2005.

If this goes through, am I going to have 7 million images now?