Faster and Cheaper Websites - Integrating Next-Gen Images in Your Rails Apps

Explore the latest and most effective options for web images to significantly reduce website size without compromising quality in this RailsConf 2023 talk. Learn how next-gen images can impact website loading times, user conversion, and SEO. Discover challenges faced when integrating next-gen images into a Rails project and their solutions. Gain insights into a new gem that streamlines the process of using WebP images with Ruby on Rails. Understand the importance of optimizing image loading, which accounts for nearly 50% of website load time and affects conversion rates. Follow along as the speaker covers web image basics, motivation for optimization, real-world examples, image tags, problems, solutions, and implementation options, including a Picture Tag Helper.

Introduction
What are web images
Motivation
Cost
Real examples
Image tags
Problems
Solutions
Options
Build
Code
Picture Tag Helper
Conclusion