YourWebP as a Simple Starting Point for Image Optimization

After about 4 years working as a frontend software engineer, one thing I have learned is that performance work usually gets ignored until it becomes a problem . Images are almost always the biggest contributor, but optimizing them properly is rarely part of the happy path. I have worked on landing pages, dashboards, blogs, and internal tools. Different stacks, different teams, same issue every time. Images start as PNG or JPG, deadlines come in, and optimization gets postponed. Recently I decided to clean this part of my workflow up a bit. My Usual Experience With WebP I already knew WebP was the right direction. Smaller files, faster load times, better Lighthouse scores. The problem was not the format, it was the workflow. Most options I used before fell into these buckets: CLI tools that require setup and remembering commands Build tools that only work inside a specific project Design tools that feel slow when exporting many assets Online tools that upload files and show ads everywhe