Why Webp?

I used WebP as the image file on my site! This file type has a kind of bad rap (because it's annoying to download), but I like using it on my website. There's actually a very simple answer...

The files are smaller than anything else!!!

When you're making your own website, size of images can matter a lot. It also effects loading time for your readers.

For example, the webp image for my 'January' illustration is 445.5 kB. The same file on my computer stored as a png is 6.2 MB. 6.2MB is 6,200 kB, for reference. I didn't resize the image, all I did was convert it to WebP and I saved about 5,700 kB.

Isn't it annoying to convert all your stuff?

It used to be! But I wrote a bash program to convert files a little more quickly.

So if I open my terminal in a folder with my drawings and that file, I can run `bash convertfile.sh`, type in the file I want to convert and it's converted! Honestly, if I didn't have this then I would be too lazy to use WebP 100%.

If you read past all my code, here's a gift for you: Mozilla plugin that will save WebP as PNG JPEG or for you