Faster and cheaper websites: integrating next-gen images in your Rails apps

Did you know loading images accounts for nearly 50% of your website’s total load time? This talk explores the latest and most effective options for web images that significantly reduce website size without compromising quality. It discusses how using next-gen images can significantly impact website loading times, user conversion, and SEO. The presentation also covers challenges faced while integrating next-gen images into a Rails project and how they were solved, including the presentation of a new gem that streamlines the process of using WebP images with Ruby on Rails.