It would be great to add more transformation options to large media. Things like this: GitHub - axe312ger/sqip: "SQIP" (pronounced \skwɪb\ like the non-magical folk of magical descent) is a SVG-based LQIP technique. would be really useful!
Add support to QUIC.
Image optimization for Large Media would be great as well
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Please add support for Brotli soon! I’ve had great success running it on DigitalOcean and it makes a real difference.
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Netlify already gzips files transparently.
However, it would be excellent if Netlify supported serving of precompressed files if present. The reason is that you can often gain a 3-8% savings by using the zopfli algorithm for gzipping, which is fairly CPU intensive and should be done in the build step rather than on a per-request basis.
The same goes for supporting brotli. Dropping a /static/my.js.gz or a /static/my.js.br could transparently serve the right format if requested.
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we have a thread, here on supporting brotli:
If we decide to implement, we’ll let you know when we can - we know this is an ask for several people.
As far as serving precompressed files - this is the first time someone has requested this - can you outline your use case a bit more and potentially your experience with this?
thanks!
Zopfli can reduce the size of files beyond what a simple gzip pass can, but it takes much longer to compress. I think it’s unreasonable to expect Netlify to compress responses with zopfli transparently, but we could achieve the same gains by compressing files in the build process. It would then be up to Netlify to look for a <filename.gz> and serve that if present, instead of gzipping “on the fly”.
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Second here for webp format and on transforms.
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I’ve also used Zopfli to compress files to <filename>.gz, and I think this sounds like a good idea to be more flexible. This would also allow to add new compressions, e.g. .br for brotli, much easier, as the compression can be done in userspace.
I would be great if both changing quality and transforming the image format was built-in transformations. Such as automatically choosing the best image format based on the Accepts header (e,g, webp, or future JPEG XL), or requesting a specific format with &type=webp. Allowing a quality transform for 0-1 (e.g. q=0.8) would be great as well.
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We’re super excited to let you all know that we have implemented Brotli support! We know that many of you have been waiting for this for some time, here it is.
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Cloudflare supports it that way. it is great because you don’t need to worry about the browser not supporting webp. I’d love to see it on netlify. Especially because it has the potential to boost your Google speed index for pages with many images.
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Now there’s even .avif, which is supposed to be superior to .webp (Chrome Platform Status).
Would be awesome if this could be used for modern browsers without worrying about breaking older ones.
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I would also love to see webp image support please!
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+1 for webp.
Given that browser support for webp is quite broad now, it would be awesome if it was supported as part of the image transformation service.
A very common scenario on the web today is to have a source image where you need to provide variants in both A) the file format, as a fallbacks for older browsers, and B) the image size, for screen density.
For example, let’s imagine I have a high resolution PNG file as my source image at 1024x1024 pixels. And I want to be able to provide webp images for browsers which support it, but also provide PNG as a fallback as well as a variety of sizes for pixel density. If the image transformation service provided an additional parameter where you could specify the image’s file type (say type), then you could write markup that specifies baseline functionality with enhancements for file format and sizing where supported:
<picture>
<source
srcset="
image.png?nf_resize=fit&w=100&h=100&type=webp,
image.png?nf_resize=fit&w=200&h=200&type=webp 2x
"
type="image/webp"
/>
<source
srcset="
image.png?nf_resize=fit&w=100&h=100&type=png,
image.png?nf_resize=fit&w=200&h=200&type=png 2x
"
type="image/png"
/>
<img src="image.png?nf_resize=fit&w=100&h=100&type=png" />
</picture>
Granted, you could iron out the API contract for this where type is optional and fallsback to the image extension when not specified, but i’ve included it here for illustration purposes.
In the above scenario, a modern device like an iPhone with a retina screen would get the 200x200 webp image, a device that doesn’t support webp but has a high pixel density screen would get the 200x200 PNG, and an old device that doesn’t support webp or even the <picture> element would get the basic 100x100 PNG—with each user agent only making 1 request for the appropriate image.
Being able to do these kinds of image transformations on the fly would be 
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Any more information for format optimizations? That’s all that is really keeping me from switching from 11ty-image plugin over to Netlify LFS. WebP and AVIF seem like good options to start.
Thanks
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Another vote for webp support
Haven’t heard an update on this thread, but now coming back to it to ask for more 
Getting support for AVIF files would be amazing. Support for this format is now in Chrome and Firefox (and speculatively coming to Safari). It’s supposed to be much better than even webp (now 10 years old). Others, like Cloudflare, are beginning to support it
Getting support for AVIF for netlify’s image optimization would be 
Per my previous example, if large media supported asking for different image formats, writing HTML that provides modern user agents with the best image format supported on their device would be negligible:
<picture>
<source
srcset="
image.png?nf_resize=fit&w=100&h=100&type=avif,
image.png?nf_resize=fit&w=200&h=200&type=avif 2x
"
type="image/avif"
/>
<source
srcset="
image.png?nf_resize=fit&w=100&h=100&type=webp,
image.png?nf_resize=fit&w=200&h=200&type=webp 2x
"
type="image/webp"
/>
<source
srcset="
image.png?nf_resize=fit&w=100&h=100&type=png,
image.png?nf_resize=fit&w=200&h=200&type=png 2x
"
type="image/png"
/>
<img src="image.png?nf_resize=fit&w=100&h=100&type=png" />
</picture>