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Alex Dunae

<p><strong>Compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load automatically with the powerful Smush image optimizer to keep your WordPress site fast, without losing quality.</strong></p>
<p>Smush makes it easy to optimize images, compress images, and deliver images faster across your entire WordPress site. This all-in-one image optimizer automatically reduces image file sizes, enables image lazy load, and serves modern formats like WebP and AVIF, all without breaking image quality or adding extra work.</p>
<p>Whether you’re running a blog, store, or portfolio, Smush helps you optimize images at scale and keep your site fast with a trusted WordPress image optimizer.</p>
<p><strong>Trusted by 1+ Million Sites | 4.8/5 Star Rating</strong></p>
<p>Get everything you need to optimize images and speed up your site. Smush works out of the box with no complicated setup – just install and let it handle the rest.</p>
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<h3>Compress images without losing quality</h3>
<p>Reduce image file size automatically while keeping your images sharp and clear. Smush is an easy-to-use image optimizer which let’s you compress images using both lossless and lossy compression, giving you the best balance of quality and performance without extra work.</p>
<p>You can also compress images outside the media library using Directory Smush, making it easy to optimize images stored in theme folders, plugins, or other directories on your server.</p>
<h3>Lazy load images for faster pages</h3>
<p>Enable image lazy load across your site so images load only when needed. This image optimizer improves initial page speed and creates a smoother experience for visitors without extra configuration.</p>
<h3>Serve WebP and AVIF images automatically (<a href="https://wpmudev.com/project/wp-smush-pro/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=smush-readme-next-gen" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO</a>)</h3>
<p>Convert images to WebP and AVIF and serve them automatically to supported browsers. Smush helps you optimize images using next-gen formats to reduce file size and improve load times across your WordPress site.</p>
<h3>Deliver images faster with an Image CDN (<a href="https://wpmudev.com/project/wp-smush-pro/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=smush-readme-cdn" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO</a>)</h3>
<p>Serve images through a global image CDN to reduce latency and improve load times for visitors around the world.</p>
<ul>
<li>119 global CDN servers</li>
<li>Up to 500 GB of bandwidth</li>
<li>Faster image delivery based on visitor location</li>
<li>Improved performance for image-heavy and high-traffic sites</li>
</ul>
<h3>Automatically resize and fix image dimensions (<a href="https://wpmudev.com/project/wp-smush-pro/?utm_source=wordpress.org&utm_medium=readme&utm_campaign=smush-readme-auto-resize" rel="nofollow ugc">PRO</a>)</h3>
<p>Eliminate common PageSpeed warnings and improve layout stability with automatic image sizing. Smush dynamically resizes images to perfectly fit their containers, regardless of original size, helping fix the “Properly size images” warning in Google PageSpeed Insights.</p>
<p>It also automatically adds missing width and height attributes to your images, improving rendering speed and reducing layout shifts. This helps you meet the “Ensure images have explicit width and height” recommendation without any manual work.</p>
<h3>Optimize your entire site, automatically</h3>
<p>Smush works across your whole site as a powerful image optimizer to optimize images as you upload them and maintain performance over time without manual work.</p>
<ul>
<li>Optimize images automatically on upload</li>
<li>Compress images in bulk or individually</li>
<li>Works with your existing media library</li>
<li>No need to re-upload images</li>
<li>Enable image lazy load across your site</li>
<li>Convert images to WebP and AVIF</li>
<li>Deliver images with an integrated image CDN</li>
<li>Automatically resize and serve correctly sized images</li>
<li>Optimize images outside the media library with Directory Smush</li>
</ul>
<h3>Built for performance</h3>
<p>Smush improves page speed and overall performance by reducing image weight and improving how images are delivered.</p>
<ul>
<li>Reduce page load times</li>
<li>Improve user experience</li>
<li>Better performance for image-heavy pages</li>
<li>Supports image lazy load and preload images (PRO) for faster perceived performance</li>
</ul>
<h3>Works with your existing setup</h3>
<p>Smush is built to work with your current WordPress setup, including popular themes, page builders, and plugins.</p>
<ul>
<li>Compatible with Gutenberg, Elementor, WPBakery, and more</li>
<li>Works with WooCommerce stores</li>
<li>No need to change your workflow</li>
<li>Easy to enable and configure</li>
</ul>
<h3>Designed to be simple</h3>
<p>You don’t need to be a performance expert to optimize images with Smush image optimizer.</p>
<ul>
<li>Works out of the box</li>
<li>Simple settings when you need them</li>
<li>No technical knowledge required</li>
<li>Safe to use on any site</li>
</ul>
<h3>Why choose Smush?</h3>
<p>There are plenty of image optimization plugins, but Smush focuses on making it easy to optimize images, compress images, and improve performance without complexity. As a leading WordPress image optimizer, Smush gives you powerful optimization tools without the technical hassle.</p>
<ul>
<li>Trusted by over 1 million WordPress users</li>
<li>Built specifically for WordPress</li>
<li>Regular updates and improvements</li>
<li>Backed by the WPMU DEV team</li>
</ul>
<h3>Get started in minutes</h3>
<p>Install Smush, activate it, and start to compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load right away. This easy-to-use image optimizer helps most sites see improvements immediately without changing how they upload or manage images.</p>
<h3>About Us</h3>
<p>WPMU DEV is a premium supplier of quality WordPress plugins, services and support. Learn more here:<br />
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<p>Hey, one more thing… we hope you <a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/wpmudev/#content-plugins" rel="nofollow ugc">enjoy our free offerings</a> as much as we’ve loved making them for you!</p>
<h3>Contact and Credits</h3>
<p>Originally written by Alex Dunae at Dialect (<a href="http://dialect.ca/?wp_smush_it" rel="nofollow ugc">dialect.ca</a>, e-mail ‘alex’ at ‘dialect dot ca’), 2008-11.</p>


Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN

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Compress and optimize images, enable lazy load, serve WebP & AVIF, and speed up your site with a global image CDN.

Qode

<p>Drive more conversions and <strong>enhance loading times</strong> on your site more quickly & easier than ever. Compress, convert, resize and <strong>fully optimize the images</strong> on your website in a completely simple and intuitive manner.</p>
<p><a href="https://qodeinteractive.com/qode-optimizer/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">Check out the QODE Optimizer documentation</a></p>
<h4>Basic Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Pick JPG, PNG, and GIF compression methods</li>
<li>Configure JPG, PNG, and GIF compression quality (Lossy)</li>
<li>Adjust image max width and height in pixels</li>
<li>Remove image metadata</li>
<li>Enable WebP image creation</li>
<li>Choose a WebP conversion method</li>
<li>Adjust WebP image compression quality</li>
<li>Insert rewriting rules</li>
<li>Picture WebP rewriting</li>
<li>Choose a backup method</li>
<li>Optimize additional folders</li>
<li>Enable System Log</li>
</ul>
<h4>Premium Features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Enable automatic image optimization</li>
<li>Disable optimization for specific images</li>
<li>JPG to PNG conversion</li>
<li>PNG to JPG conversion</li>
<li>GIF to PNG conversion</li>
<li>Apply additional JPG & PNG compression methods after conversion</li>
<li>Configure additional JPG & PNG compression quality</li>
<li>Set a JPG background color fill</li>
<li>Delete original image files after conversion</li>
<li>Lossless PNG to WebP conversion</li>
<li>Show “Regenerate” links</li>
<li>Disable creation of specific image sizes</li>
<li>Watermark creation for images</li>
<li>Choose a position for image watermarks</li>
</ul>
<h3>Optimize the Images on Your Website, Drive More Conversions and Increase Your Speed Score</h3>
<p>The QODE Optimizer plugin is developed to let you <strong>convert, compress and adjust file sizes for all the images</strong> on your website in a completely streamlined and quick manner.<br />
The plugin allows you to easily perform <strong>bulk or individual image optimization</strong>.<br />
You can convert JPG, PNG and GIF files, adjust default image width & height, as well as choose a <strong>compression method</strong> to be applied to images during the optimization.<br />
For <strong>Lossy</strong> compression methods, you can fine-tune the amount of compression applied, which in turn results in different image qualities.</p>
<h3>The Easy Way to Remove Image Metadata</h3>
<p>The QODE Optimizer provides you with a number of additional options related to images on your site.<br />
You can easily <strong>remove metadata</strong> for all the images on your website, thus reducing their respective file sizes even further.</p>
<h3>Refine the Images Even Further by Converting them to the WebP Format</h3>
<p>If you wish to convert your images to the supremely practical WebP format, the <a href="https://qodeinteractive.com/products/plugins/qode-optimizer-premium/" rel="nofollow ugc">QODE Optimizer</a> plugin has you covered.<br />
You also have the option to <strong>control the WebP image compression quality</strong>, insert rewriting rules for delivering WebP images on Apache/LiteSpeed servers, and more.</p>
<h3>Follow and Analyze the Process of Optimization in the System Log</h3>
<p>By enabling the system log, you’ll be able to see all the steps that the system takes during the process of image optimization.<br />
This helps you <strong>further refine the optimization</strong> as you’ll be able to see precisely how the optimization affected each individual image in the process.</p>
<h3>Get Even More With Premium!</h3>
<p>The premium version of <a href="https://qodeinteractive.com/products/plugins/qode-optimizer-premium/" rel="nofollow ugc">QODE Optimizer</a> lets you improve things even further.<br />
You have the option to <strong>enable automatic optimization</strong> for all images uploaded on your website. On top of that, you can also choose specific predetermined image sizes you do not wish to apply the optimization to.<br />
Another useful feature that you get with the premium version lets you <strong>place watermarks</strong> over the regular images on your site and choose where you wish to position them.<br />
One more practical functionality allows you to set a <strong>background fill color</strong> for JPGs – this is particularly useful when converting images with transparent backgrounds to the JPG format.<br />
In addition to this, you can also have the <strong>original images deleted</strong> automatically after conversion, saving up even more in terms of memory.</p>
<h4>Documentation & Support</h4>
<ul>
<li>Check out our step-by-step <a href="https://qodeinteractive.com/qode-optimizer/documentation/" rel="nofollow ugc">user guide</a> on how to install and use Qode Optimizer.</li>
<li>You can also submit a topic to the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/qode-optimizer/" rel="ugc">support forum</a> at and our support team will be glad to help you out.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>We use our services</p>
<p>Qode’s CDN – The domain https://export.qodethemes.com is a service from which we retrieve the list of all Qode plugins displayed in the admin dashboard.<br />
Qode’s API – The domain https://api.qodeinteractive.com is an API that’s called when a user deactivates the plugin, to retrieve the reason for deactivation. Upon deactivating the plugin, the users are prompted for a reason for doing so. They also have the option to deactivate without providing a reply. The data obtained from the users who respond to the question is collected to improve the plugin. After the analysis of said data, the plugin is upgraded and enhanced in such a way as to fulfill the users’ expectations.<br />
Qode’s Terms of Use – https://qodeinteractive.com/terms-of-use/<br />
Qode’s Privacy Policy – https://qodeinteractive.com/privacy-policy/</p>
<h4>Looking for more?</h4>
<p>Feel free to try out some of our other products:</p>
<p><a href="https://wordpress.org/themes/qi/" rel="ugc">Qi Theme</a><br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/qi-addons-for-elementor/" rel="ugc">Qi Addons for Elementor</a><br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/qi-blocks/" rel="ugc">Qi Blocks for Gutenberg</a><br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/qode-wishlist-for-woocommerce/" rel="ugc">QODE Wishlist for WooCommerce</a><br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/qode-quick-view-for-woocommerce/" rel="ugc">QODE Quick View for WooCommerce</a><br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/qode-variation-swatches-for-woocommerce/" rel="ugc">QODE Variation Swatches for WooCommerce</a><br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/qode-compare-for-woocommerce/" rel="ugc">QODE Compare for WooCommerce</a><br />
<a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/qode-product-extra-options-for-woocommerce/" rel="ugc">QODE Product Extra Options for WooCommerce</a></p>


QODE Optimizer

The QODE Optimizer plugin is developed to allow you to convert, compress and adjust file sizes for all the images found on your website.

Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN vs QODE Optimizer