# Stacks useless for .webp photos

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**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [December 25, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/stacks-useless-for-webp-photos/45731 "2024-12-25T19:16:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![PLM](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/plm/32/31094_2.png) [@PLM](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/PLM)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2024, 7:16pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/stacks-useless-for-webp-photos/45731/1 "2024-12-25T19:16:24Z")

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Using the latest RWC 9.3.4 & Stacks 5.3.0.  
Google SEO complains that some of my photos are too large in .jpg and suggests .webp compression instead.  
Fine no problem, but Stacks converts .webp files to huge .png files instead. Useless. Stacks 5.3.0 is not good enough for a modern website with many photos.  
Is there a .webp stack for Stacks 5.3.0 that doesn’t convert to .png?  
I hope RW Elements will solve this problem.

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**Author:** ![PLM](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/plm/32/31094_2.png) [@PLM](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/PLM)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 4:31pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/stacks-useless-for-webp-photos/45731/2 "2024-12-26T16:31:36Z")

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I found this stack - [Srcerer | Shaking the Habitual](https://shakingthehabitual.com/stacks/srcerer/)  
Has anyone tried it?

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**Author:** ![pogmoor](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/pogmoor/32/22799_2.png) [@pogmoor](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/pogmoor)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 6:28pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/stacks-useless-for-webp-photos/45731/3 "2024-12-31T18:28:05Z")

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Why not just reduce the size of your .jpg files? You can reduce the sizes of a batch of images with Preview: [How to quickly resize multiple images at once on Mac](https://www.idownloadblog.com/2013/10/19/how-to-resize-multiple-images-mac/).  
That’s what I have been doing and it works fine - the files remain as .jpg on my site.

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**Author:** ![PLM](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/plm/32/31094_2.png) [@PLM](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/PLM)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2024, 6:55pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/stacks-useless-for-webp-photos/45731/4 "2024-12-31T18:55:19Z")

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I use realmac squash and I reduce the photos often jpg 30% but then they don’t look so good. When using webp I get smaller files and much better quality. Using jpg is old style according to Google SEO.