AVIF spoils the look of the website

Hello @izomar,

I could reproduce the issue you have described on your website and it is quite weird. From what I could see, the AVIF versions of the files are not cropped to 300×300, but they keep the ratio of the original images.

In order to debug this further, we need some additional information:

• can you please add some screenshots with the ShortPixel settings? I’m interested in the General and Advanced tabs.
• can you please send us the list of active plugins and what is the active theme you’re using? You can either take a screenshot with the plugins or send us the debug information from Tools -> Site Health -> Info. If you don’t want to share the entire debug information, it’s ok for now to just receive the list of plugins and themes.

Thanks, I look forward to getting your reply!

Thanks a lot for providing these details @izomar! Please allow us some time to investigate this and we’ll get back to you as soon as we have a relevant update.

Happy New Year!

Dear @izomar,

We have identified the cause of this and applied a fix in the development version that you can download below:

https://shortpixel.com/downloads/shortpixel-image-optimiser-5.1.6-DEV01.zip

In order to check if the issue is corrected, you’ll need to do the following (if backups were enabled, everything was significantly easier):

• Install the version above by going to Plugins -> Add New -> Upload and upload the new version on top of the previous one
• For the images where you see a wrong crop in the AVIF format, remove the corresponding AVIF file that is wrongly cropped using a file manager or via SFTP
• Add this piece of code in your site’s functions.php, or by using the Code Snippets plugin (it will enable a file check on disk, so the plugin can “see” the missing AVIF files that you just deleted):

add_filter('shortpixel/image/filecheck', function () { return true; });

• Then the plugin should identify that the AVIF files you deleted earlier are missing and will allow you to re-generate them, with the correct sizes this time.

Thanks for reporting this and please tell me if everything works fine with this version.

Dear @izomar,

This was actually a part of the issue: the AVIF files were wrongly cropped in your case, and at the same time, the file size check wasn’t working properly, resulting in bigger images.
With version 5.1.6 of our plugin (released yesterday), the AVIF files should be smaller than the JPG counterparts.

Please let us know how it goes!

Hello @izomar,

We will obviously add to your account the corresponding credits and please get in touch with us to sort this out.

Thank you!