Nobody asked me to do this.
I maintain a WooCommerce store bolted to LearnDash courses on a Divi theme — eight years of content, a few thousand images. Page weight had been nagging at me for a while, so I put "convert the images to WebP" on my own list. No ticket, no client request, just a maintenance item I thought would take an afternoon.
I almost installed ShortPixel and called it a day.
Instead I spent twenty minutes auditing first, and found that WebP was maybe the fourth most important thing wrong with how that site served images. This is what the audit turned up, and why "just install an optimizer plugin" would have made things worse.
Always inventory before you optimize
