Do you know that Google Search doesn’t assist the AVIF picture format? A minimum of not but. Google Search would not record it on its supported picture codecs and Google Picture Search merely will not index them. However John Mueller of Google mentioned on X, “I am positive this may not be essential long run.”
That means, Google will ultimately assist the AVIF picture format sooner or later – however when is the large query.
Jon Henshaw reported that whereas WordPress is including assist for AVIS picture codecs, similar to Apple did lately.
However as Jon identified, Google Search doesn’t but assist AVIF photos. The record of supported picture codecs by Google reads:
Google Search helps photos within the following codecs: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, and SVG.
Right here is the place John Mueller of Google mentioned Google will doubtless assist it sooner or later and a piece round till then:
(Would love for @JohnMu, @dannysullivan, or anybody else to talk into/confirm this)
— Alex MacArthur (@amacarthur) March 26, 2024
However … actually … we must always simply be higher at supporting trendy picture codecs in search, so I am positive this may not be essential long run.
— John (@JohnMu) March 26, 2024
Hmmm. Perhaps Google is testing supporting AVIF photos?
I additionally did not consider Google was supporting avif but, however simply examined some searches with filetype operator in Google Photos and that did return avif recordsdata. Fascinating. See screenshots beneath. Perhaps Google is beginning to assist them?? @johnmu https://t.co/JTHvv4G2Na pic.twitter.com/Q53NONs7fE
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) March 26, 2024
Discussion board dialogue at X.
