Do you know that Google Search doesn’t assist the AVIF picture format? At the very least not but. Google Search would not listing 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 obligatory long run.”
Which means, Google will ultimately assist the AVIF picture format sooner or later – however when is the massive query.
Jon Henshaw reported that whereas WordPress is adding support for AVIS picture codecs, similar to Apple did recently.
However as Jon identified, Google Search doesn’t but assist AVIF pictures. The listing of supported image formats by Google reads:
Google Search helps pictures within the following codecs: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WebP, and SVG.
Right here is the place John Mueller of Google mentioned Google will possible 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 … truthfully … we must always simply be higher at supporting trendy picture codecs in search, so I am positive this may not be obligatory long run.
— John (@JohnMu) March 26, 2024
Discussion board dialogue at X.
