Description

A freemium, easy to use, comprehensive, stable and frequently updated image compression plugin supported by the friendly team that created it. 🙂
Increase your website’s SEO ranking, number of visitors and ultimately your sales by optimising any image or PDF document on your website.
ShortPixel is an easy to use, lightweight, install-and-forget-about-it image optimization plugin that can compress all your past images and PDF documents with a single click. New images are automatically resized/rescaled and optimized on the fly, in the background. It’s also compatible with any gallery, slider or ecommerce plugin.
Ready for a quick DEMO? Test our plugin here and here.
Or you can create a staging copy of your site using WP Staging and test it there.
Short Pixel uses minimal resources and works well with any shared, cloud, VPS or dedicated web hosting. It can optimize any image you have on your website even the images that aren’t listed in Media Library like those in galleries like NextGEN, Modula or added directly via FTP!
Both lossy and lossless image compression are available for the most common image types (JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP and AVIF) plus PDF files.
We also offer glossy JPEG compression which is a very high quality lossy optimization algorithm. Specially designed for photographers!
Optimized images mean better user experience, better PageSpeed Insights or GTmetrix results, better Google PageRank and more visitors.
Make an instant image compression test of your site or compress some images to test our optimization algorithms.
Why is ShortPixel the best choice when it comes to image optimization or PDF compression?

  • popular plugin with over 300,000 active installations – according to WordPress
  • compress JPG (and its variations JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XR), PNG, GIF (still or animated) images and also PDF documents
  • option to convert any JPEG, PNG or GIF (even animated ones!) to WebP and AVIF for more Google love. How to enable WebP?. What is AVIF and why is it good?.
  • New!: full WP-CLI support for background processing, useful especially for websites with a very large Media Library
  • New!: Easily add recurrent cron jobs for background optimization. Useful if you have users uploading images via the front end of your website
  • option to automatically convert PNG to JPG if that will result in smaller images. Ideal for large images in PNG format
  • option to include the next generation images (WebP and AVIF) into the front-end pages by using the <picture> tag instead of <img>, independent from generating them through the plugin
  • compatible with WP Retina 2x – all retina images are automatically compressed. How to benefit from Retina displays?
  • optimize thumbnails as well as featured images. You can also select individual thumbnails to exclude from optimization
  • advanced exclusion options that allow excluding images based on filename, path, size or complex regex exclusions
  • ability to optimize any image on your site including images in NextGEN Gallery and any other image galleries or sliders
  • option to scale images down, with 2 different options, which is very useful to automatically resize large images. This applies to the featured images and there is no need for additional plugins like Imsanity
  • CMYK to RGB conversion
  • skip already optimized images
  • 24h stellar support (24/7) directly from developers.
  • easily test lossy/glossy/lossless versions of the images with a single click in your Media Library
  • great for photographers: keep or remove EXIF data from your images, compress photos with lossless option
  • works well with both HTTPS and HTTP websites
  • fully compatible with any WordPress multisite install (either with sub-folders or sub-domains)
  • uses progressive JPEG for larger images in order to speed up the image display
  • you can run ShortPixel plugin on multiple websites or on a multisite with a single API Key
  • it is safe to test and use the plugin: all the original images are by default saved in a local backup that can be restored with a click, either one by one or in bulk
  • ‘Bulk’ optimize all the existing images in Media Library or in any gallery with one click
  • works great for eCommerce websites using WooCommerce or other plugins
  • works great with NextGEN gallery, Foo Gallery and any other galleries and sliders
  • fully compatible with the WP Offload Media plugin
  • compatible with WP Engine hosted websites and all the major hosting providers
  • compatible with WPML and WPML Media plugins
  • no file size limit
  • integrates with Gravity Forms post_image field type optimizing the images upon upload
  • compatible with watermarking plugins
  • option to deactivate auto-optimizing images on upload
  • no credits are used for the images that are optimised less that 5%
  • direct integration with Cloudflare by using a Cloudflare Token
  • 30 days optimization report with all image details and overall statistics
  • We are GDPR compliant! Read more.
  • free optimization credits for non-profits, contact us for details

How much does it cost?
ShortPixel comes with 100 free credits/month and additional credits can be bought for as little as $4.99 for 5,000 image credits.
Check out our prices.

Testimonials:
★★★★★ A Super Plugin works very well 62% reduction overall. robertvarns
★★★★★ The secret sauce for a WordPress website. mark1mark
★★★★★ A must have plugin, great support! ElColo13
★★★★★ Excellent Plugin! Even Better Customer Service! scaliendo
★★★★★ Great image compression, solid plugin, equally great support. matters1959
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