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October 26, 2022

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# Automatic GIF conversion to animated WebP

We've implemented an automatic GIF to animated WebP conversion process in our image processing pipeline, which improves performance by reducing delivered bytes by up to 50%.

For more information, please visit [Shopify Help Center](https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/images/theme-images#automatic-image-compression-and-format-selection).