nosilver4u

<p>Are you frustrated by a slow website? Do over-sized images make you say “ewww”… Let EWWW Image Optimizer help you make your site faster, improve your bounce rate, and boost your SEO. But most importantly, make your visitors happier so they keep coming back for more.</p>
<p>With EWWW IO you can optimize all your existing images, <a href="https://docs.ewww.io/article/84-plugin-compatibility" rel="nofollow ugc">from any plugin</a>, and then let EWWW IO take care of new image uploads automatically.</p>
<p><strong>Why use EWWW Image Optimizer?</strong></p>
<ol>
<li><strong>No Speed Limits</strong> and <a href="https://ewww.io/unlimited-file-size/" rel="nofollow ugc">unlimited file size</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Smooth Handling</strong> with pixel-perfect optimization using industry-leading tools and progressive rendering.</li>
<li><strong>High Torque</strong> as we bring you the best compression/quality ratio available with our Premium compression for JPG, PNG, SVG, WebP, and PDF files.</li>
<li><strong>Adaptive Steering</strong> with intelligent conversion options to get the right image format for the job (JPG, PNG, GIF, AVIF, or WebP).</li>
<li><strong>Free Parking</strong> The core plugin is free and always will be. However, our paid services offer up to 80% compression, and a <a href="https://ewww.io/plans/" rel="nofollow ugc">host of other features</a>!</li>
<li><strong>Comprehensive Coverage:</strong> no image gets left behind, optimize everything on your site, not just the WordPress Media Library.</li>
<li><strong>Safety First:</strong> all communications are secured with top SSL encryption.</li>
<li><strong>Roadside Assistance:</strong> top-notch support is in our DNA. While API customers get top priority, we answer <a href="https://ewww.io/contact-us/" rel="nofollow ugc">every single support question with care</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Pack a Spare:</strong> free image backups store your original images for 30 days.</li>
</ol>
<p>EWWW IO is the only plugin that lets you optimize images using tools on your own server (jpegtran, optipng, pngout, pngquant, gifsicle, cwebp). If you feel the need for more speed, get more compression and offload the CPU-intensive process of optimization to <a href="https://ewww.io/plans/" rel="nofollow ugc">our specialized servers</a>.</p>
<h4>Automatic Everything</h4>
<p>With Easy IO, images are automatically compressed, scaled to fit the page and device size, lazy loaded, and converted to next-gen WebP and AVIF formats.</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>Stuck? Feeling like maybe you DO need that rocket science degree? <a href="https://ewww.io/contact-us/" rel="nofollow ugc">We provide free one-on-one email support to everyone</a>.<br />
Do you have an idea to make EWWW IO even better? <a href="https://feedback.ewww.io/b/features" rel="nofollow ugc">Share it and vote on future features</a>!</p>
<p>Found a bug? Report the issue on <a href="https://github.com/nosilver4u/ewww-image-optimizer" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a>, and we’ll get it fixed!</p>
<p>You may report security issues through our Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team helps validate, triage and handle any security vulnerabilities. <a href="https://patchstack.com/database/vdp/ewww-image-optimizer" rel="nofollow ugc">Report a security vulnerability.</a></p>
<h4>Bulk Optimize</h4>
<p>Optimize all your images from a single page. This includes the Media Library, your theme, and a handful of pre-configured folders (see Optimize Everything Else below). GRAND FlaGallery, NextCellent and NextGEN have their own Bulk Optimize pages.</p>
<h4>Optimize Everything Else</h4>
<p>Configure any folder within your WordPress install to be optimized. The Bulk Optimizer will compress theme images, BuddyPress avatars, BuddyPress Activity Plus images, Meta Slider slides, WP Symposium Pro avatars, GD bbPress attachments, Grand Media Galleries, and any user-specified folders. You can also use Scheduled optimization or run the optimizer from WP-CLI if that’s more your thing.</p>
<h4>Plugin Compatibility</h4>
<p>EWWW IO has been tested with hundreds (if not thousands) of <a href="https://docs.ewww.io/article/84-plugin-compatibility" rel="nofollow ugc">plugins and themes</a>, here are just a few of the most common ones: BuddyPress (Activity Plus add-on too), Cloudinary, Easy Watermark, FileBird, FooGallery, GD bbPress Attachments, GRAND FlAGallery, Gmedia Photo Gallery, MediaPress, Meta Slider, Microsoft Azure Storage, MyArcadePlugin, NextGEN Gallery, Regenerate Thumbnails, <a href="https://weglot.com/integrations/wordpress-translation-plugin/demo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Weglot</a>, WP Offload Media, <a href="https://wpml.org/plugin/ewww-image-optimizer/" rel="nofollow ugc">WPML</a>, WP Retina 2x, WP RSS Aggregator, WP Symposium. <a href="https://docs.ewww.io/article/84-plugin-compatibility" rel="nofollow ugc">Read more…</a></p>
<h4>WebP Images</h4>
<p>If you want simple, get automatic WebP conversion with Easy IO, and be done with it! Otherwise, you can generate WebP versions of your images with the Bulk Optimizer, and deliver them to supported browsers. Take your pick between Apache-style rewrite rules, JS WebP Rewriting, and  WebP Rewriting. EWWW IO even works with the WebP option in the Cache Enabler plugin from KeyCDN.</p>
<h4>AVIF Images</h4>
<p>AVIF conversion is built into the Easy IO CDN. Once your site is setup with Easy IO, edit the site settings to enable AVIF, and you’re done!</p>
<h4>WP-CLI</h4>
<p>Allows you to run all Bulk Optimization processes from your command line, instead of the web interface. It is much faster, and allows you to do things like run it in ‘screen’ or via regular cron (instead of wp-cron, which can be unpredictable on low-traffic sites). Install WP-CLI from wp-cli.org, and run ‘wp-cli.phar help ewwwio optimize’ for more information or see the <a href="https://docs.ewww.io/article/25-optimizing-with-wp-cli" rel="nofollow ugc">Docs</a>.</p>
<h4>CDN Support</h4>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-s3-and-cloudfront/" rel="ugc">WP Offload Media</a> is the officially supported (and recommended) plugin for uploads to Amazon S3, Digital Ocean Spaces, and Google Cloud Storage. <a href="https://docs.ewww.io/article/84-plugin-compatibility" rel="nofollow ugc">Check our compatibility list for details on other plugins</a>. All pull mode CDNs like Cloudflare, KeyCDN, MaxCDN, and Sucuri CloudProxy work automatically, but will require you to purge the cache after a bulk optimization.</p>
<h4>Translations</h4>
<p>Huge thanks to all our translators, <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/contributors" rel="nofollow ugc">see the full list</a>!</p>
<p>If you would like to help translate this plugin, <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/ewww-image-optimizer" rel="nofollow ugc">join the team</a>.<br />
<a href="https://ewww.io/register/" rel="nofollow ugc">Signup to receive updates when new strings are available for translation</a>.</p>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>Written by <a href="https://ewww.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Shane Bishop</a> with special thanks to my <a href="https://www.iamsecond.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Lord and Savior</a>. Based upon CW Image Optimizer, which was written by <a href="http://www.jacoballred.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jacob Allred</a> at <a href="http://www.corbanworks.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Corban Works, LLC</a>. CW Image Optimizer was based on WP Smush.it. Jpegtran is the work of the Independent JPEG Group. PEL is the work of Martin Geisler, Lars Olesen, and Erik Oskam. Easy IO and HTML parsing classes based upon the Photon module from Jetpack.</p>


EWWW Image Optimizer

Serve webp images with fallback for browser which don't support

Excellent plugin!

I installed Imsanity which is another plugin I love and it recommended the EWWW Image Optimizer and I installed it and it drastically cut down the file size of the images as well as converting them to different file formats! I was so impressed it was so easy to use and the optimized images looked super fantastic! I couldn't tell the difference and it optimized all sizes of the different sizes that WordPress creates and it handled it all! Super thrilled to have found this gem!

I love this plugin!


Very nice plugin that does the job. We have used this plugin in number of our websites.


Nice plugins that works for free

Fantastic

Works perfect - I loved it


Useless plug-in! They force you to register on their site and you have to pay! But that's not all, you can't delete your account and you can't contact them. They use your personal data to spam you with useless emails. Misleading methods that have nothing to do with Wordpress.org


useless plugin

Class A tool to minify images


Does a good job at optimizing images. 



Full disclosure: I'm leaving this review because I'm sick of seeing the nag in my admin, which I prefer to keep unmolested by the promotional efforts of plugin authors.


Easy to use


I have been using EWWW for 3 years now and never had any issues. So, kudos to that and for this great tool.


My go-to image optimization plugin


WP Core 6.5 has added AVIF support, yet EWWW IO still doesn't support it.  Seems like just an excuse to push people to use their paid CDN service Easy IO.  I've been a long time user of EWWW IO but now it seems like the it doesn't do much of anything useful anymore.  


Failed to keep up with standards, no AVIF support


Very useful for tuning up WordPress site. Thanks for a great plugin!


Very useful and highly functional plugin!


Totally solved page speed issues on premium, it is the oldest plugin for image optimization on WP as far as I know


Great and Simple

Smaller Images, Faster Sites, Happier Visitors. Comprehensive image optimization that doesn't require a degree in rocket science.

hemenderki

charliederki

Mikael Svens

<p>Tired of resizing, compressing, converting, optimizing and exporting images over and over again? Better Images is a plugin that automagically does this hard work for you. Just upload your image into the media library and the plugin will produce an image that is both better looking and smaller in size. And it will also resize the original full resolution image to save space.</p>
<p>If you benefit from this plugin please consider <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/better-images/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">writing a review</a>! That would mean a lot to us.</p>
<p><strong>Disclaimer:</strong> With this plugin activated you can’t regenerate images via other plugins or WP-CLI. Regeneration will be available in a upcoming Pro-version.</p>
<h3>Here’s everything that Better Images will do for you every time you upload an image:</h3>
<ul>
<li>Resizes and compresses the original full resolution image</li>
<li>Sharpens the image to make it more appealing and crisp</li>
<li>Removes EXIF data but keeps color space profile</li>
<li>Converts from PNG to JPG</li>
<li>Converts from CMYK to RGB</li>
<li>Checks if the image already exist to avoid duplicates</li>
<li>Replaces special characters and non english letters in the filename</li>
<li>Adds a max height of 768 pixels to medium_large size variant</li>
</ul>
<p>And one bonus feature: It displays all image sizes in the editing screen.</p>
<h3>And here’s the nitty-gritty of what is actually happening in the background:</h3>
<h3>Resizes and compresses the original full resolution image</h3>
<p>In version 5.3 WordPress introduced handling of big images. The solution that was implemented is to create a new size variant of 2560 pixels with the addition of the word “scaled” in the filename. This variant serves as the new full size image on the website. The real original full size image though is not deleted but kept on the server in case one would want to resize to a different size or regenerate thumbnails. This image is never used on the website however and resizing images to pixel perfect sizes is a thing of the past due to the advent of responsive image handling.</p>
<p>What Better Images does is resizing the original full size image to the maximum size of 2560 pixels replacing the default scaled variant. In the process we also get rid of the word “scaled” in the filename.</p>
<h3>Sharpens the image to make it more appealing and crisp</h3>
<p>Every time we resize an image it becomes blurry. Apps like Photoshop, Pixelmator, Affinity Photo and the like will compensate this by applying som degree of sharpening to make images look better. WordPress does not do that and that’s why we end up with blurry images.</p>
<p>However Better Images does that for you. We have tweaked the sharpening level to avoid over sharpening artifacts. The plugin applies the perfect amount of sharpening to make your images pop and look at their best.</p>
<h3>Removes EXIF data but keeps color space profile</h3>
<p>Almost all images taken with a camera or downloaded from a stock photo library has EXIF data embedded in them. EXIF data is information about shutter speed, exposure compensation, aperture speed, what metering system, if a flash was used, ISO number, date and time the image was taken, white balance, GPS coordinates and so on. This data is in the majority of time not used or needed on a website. Therefore we remove the EXIF data and shave off up to 30 kb from the file size.</p>
<p>Removing the EXIF data however also removes the color space profile which will result in an image that looks different form the original. Since we wouldn’t want that we leave the color space profile untouched.</p>
<h3>Converts from PNG to JPG</h3>
<p>The file format PNG (Portable Network Graphics) is a popular image format because of its non destructive nature. However it is not at all suitable for photographs that will be used on a website due to its heavy size. In contrast a JPG image can be up to 20 times lighter in file size.</p>
<p>Better Images can convert uploaded PNG image to JPG for you. This will not only save you a lot of disk space, but also make your website load much faster.</p>
<h3>Converts from CMYK to RGB</h3>
<p>Sometimes you will get an image that’s exported to be used in print and therefore it uses the CMYK color mode. WordPress is not that great at handling this so it will create multiple variants of the image in different sizes, each of them weighing in at the same size in mega byte as the original full size image. That’s crazy!</p>
<p>Better Images solves this by converting the image to RGB mode before any resizing or compression occurs.</p>
<h3>Checks if the image already exist to avoid duplicates</h3>
<p>One of the things that will take unnecessary space from your server is uploading the same image multiple times. Often times we forget that we already uploaded the image once before, so we upload it again. WordPress by default won’t warn you that you are about to upload a duplicate image. Instead it puts a number in the filename and lets the image pass.</p>
<p>With Better Images every time you upload a file it will search the database to see if the image already exist and give you a message to make you aware of that and help you avoid uploading duplicates of the same image.</p>
<h3>Replaces special characters and non english letters in the filename</h3>
<p>WordPress will allow you to upload images with special characters and non english letters in the filename. Everything will work properly. Until that is you decide to move your website or restore it from a backup. Suddenly all image links with special characters and non english letters will break and you will have to reassign these images in all pages and posts manually.</p>
<p>To protect you from that Better Images will clean up and replace all special characters and non english letters in the filename for you.</p>
<h3>Adds a max height of 768 pixels to medium_large size variant.</h3>
<p>The 768 pixel size variant, also called medium_large, was added into WordPress back in the days when responsive image handling where just introduced. The idea was to have an image size that covers mobile phones. The size is not visible in the Media settings panel and it’s the only size variant that does not have any hight limit. That means in practice this size can be larger than the 1024 pixel size if the image is very tall. Since those days a lot has happened and we think that medium_large also should have a height limit just as all other size variants, so we added this feature.</p>
<h3>Displays all image sizes in the editing screen</h3>
<p>By default WordPress will only display and let you choose from four sizes in the editing screen.<br />
– Thumbnail (max 150px square)<br />
– Medium (max 300px width and height)<br />
– Large (max 1024px width and height)<br />
– Full (full/original image)</p>
<p>WordPress however creates four more sizes but does not display them.<br />
– Max 768px width<br />
– Max 1536px width and height<br />
– Max 2048px width and height<br />
– Max 2560px width and height</p>
<p>Better Images will display and let you choose from all these sizes. This is also compatible with many page builders such as Oxygen, Beaver Builder, Divi, Elementor, Brizy and many more.</p>
<h3>You are in control</h3>
<p>All features are enabled by default and most of them can be disabled when needed. Let say for example you are doing a downloads page with press images and want to have full sized images in CMYK mode. No problem, just turn off the setting for CMYK conversion and full resolution image resizing.</p>


Better Images – Sharpen, compress, optimize and resize image after upload

This is a great plugin, as we are a web agency it saves so much time everyday. And the result comes in an instant. Love that it tells the user if your about to upload a duplicate, especially for our customers!

Love it!

The only image plugin you will need, like magic!

Excellent and simple application of a difficult topic.  No need to resize your huge images - this plugin does it for you.

Does what it promises!

Tired of resizing, compressing, converting, optimizing and exporting images? This plugin will automagically do this hard work for you.

EWWW Image Optimizer vs Better Images – Sharpen, compress, optimize and resize image after upload