If you have a WordPress website related to news, media, photography, portfolio, or related, your site mostly comprises text and images. Comparing to text content, images are larger in size and takes time to load. This can directly impact your page speed leading to serious WordPress SEO issues. So to avoid this, you can manually compress images using software or an online tool. This is a tedious and time-consuming process, especially when you have a lot of images to process. Here comes the WordPress image compression plugin like a savior. These plugins automate this process and effectively reduces the size of the images of any format and at the same time retains the quality of the image. Here are some of the best WordPress image compression plugins which you should add to your WordPress website to improve your site loading time and performance.
List of WordPress Image Compression Plugins
Here is our curated list of some of the best WordPress Image compression plugins.
- Optimole
- WP Rocket
- Jetpack
- Imagify
- Smush Image
- Optimus
- EWWW Image Optimizer
- ShortPixel Image Optimizer
- reSmush.it
- Compress JPEG & PNG images
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Optimole
Optimole is a popular WordPress image compression plugin that allows optimizing all your WordPress images. It has an interactive UI to set up all the compression settings, quality, image resizing, lazy loading, and many more from a single dashboard. Most importantly, it has features for automatically embedding a watermark on all your images which is an amazing feature.
WP Rocket
WP Rocket is one of the best WordPress image compression plugins that is simple to use and also really helps in many ways to improve your website speed. It has features like page caching, GZIP Compression, cache preloading, browser caching, and many more. Apart from these, they can be used to improve your SEO ranking and site conversion in a great way.
Jetpack
Jetpack is another popular and powerful WordPress plugin for image compression. It is not a dedicated image compression plugin but has several features that mainly focuses on the security, performance, and conversion of your WordPress site. For example, in Image optimization, Jetpack optimizes the image with the CDN, improving your site speed, visitors, and conversion.
Imagify
Imagify is another image compression plugin for WordPress developed by WP Rocket. It allows you to improve your site speed by lowering the image size without affecting the image’s quality, which is done by converting the image to the WEBP format. Not only images, but this plugin can also compress the size of GIFs and PNG in three various optimization levels, namely Normal, Aggressive, and Ultra.
Smush Image
Smush Image is a popular WordPress image compression plugin that helps you optimize images, turn on lazy load, resize, compress, and improve your page speed with some simple clicks. Apart from these, it has features like lossless compression, automated optimization, Gutenberg block integration, convert to WEBP, and also process/compress any image file seamlessly.
Optimus
Optimus is a popular optimization plugin available on WordPress. It helps you save several bytes of data and the loading time of your website. The plugin has three versions: Optimus (Free), Optimus HQ, and Optimus HQ Pro. All the versions have various algorithms on image compression, so the higher the plan, the higher the compression. Also, it works only on WordPress version 4.6 and above.
EWWW Image Optimizer
EWWW Image Optimizer is another image optimization plugin available on WordPress. This plugin allows you to compress images, GIFs, PNG, and even PDF files to smaller sizes without affecting the quality of the image. Also, this includes features like image scaling to fit any device or page, lazy loading, caching engine, CSS/JS optimization, Google font optimization, and many more.
ShortPixel Image Optimizer
ShortPixel Image Optimizer is the best choice for image compression or optimization in WordPress. Once the plugin is activated, it starts to compress all the images and stores the original (uncompressed) image in a separate folder. The plugin is fully compatible with WooCommerce, NextGEN Gallery, and the WPML translation plugins. Apart from these, you can change file formats like JPEG to PNG and vice versa.
reSmush.it
reSmush.it is a popular WordPress image compression plugin that can be used to improve your site speed with the help of reSmush.it API. All the image quality and compression processes can be controlled easily using slider windows of your choice. Just WordPress and this plugin work fine on several WordPress CMS like Drupal, Joomla, Magento, Prestashop, etc.
Compress JPEG & PNG Images
Compress JPEG & PNG images is a popular plugin for JPEG and PNG image compression. It does not work with any image format apart from the above-mentioned ones. One of the best options available in the plugin is to set the maximum image upload size. So it automatically compresses the image to the pre-determines size when the image is large.
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Conclusion
These are some of the best WordPress image compression plugins which you can use on your WordPress site. You can use any of the above-mentioned plugins and all do an amazing job of optimizing and speeding your website. If we missed any of your favorite image compression WordPress plugins let us know in the comments section below.
