Mastering Image Optimization in Astro
Image optimization can often be the trickiest part of building a genuinely fast static site, as large assets easily bottleneck your performance scores.
- Astro makes handling these assets incredibly seamless out of the box, especially when you commit to using modern, highly compressed formats.
- By switching my blog’s cover images to WebP, I drastically reduced my overall page weight without sacrificing any visual fidelity.
- Storing the
.webpfiles right alongside the markdown files keeps the repository beautifully organized and ready for Netlify to deploy.