Smush

By WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform

Optimize and speed up your site with lossless image compression, lazy loading, WebP conversion, and smart resizing for lightning-fast performance.

4.8

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Overview

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Main benefits

Optimize images effortlessly

Convert images to WebP

Built-in lazy loading

Lossless and lossy compression

Bulk image optimization

About this plugin

Author: WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform

Categories: Media Management

Version: 3.16.5

Last updated: 20-06-2024

WordPress version: 5.3

Tested up to: 6.5.5

PHP version required: 7.4

Languages: Arabic, Catalan [+72]

Tags:

Image optimization Compress images Optimize images Webp Convert webp

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Overview

The Smush plugin is a powerful and user-friendly image optimization tool designed to enhance the performance and speed of WordPress websites. Developed by the WPMU DEV team, Smush allows users to optimize, compress, resize, and convert images to the WebP format, ensuring faster loading web pages without compromising image quality. Key features of Smush include lossless and lossy compression, ultra-image compression, lazy loading, bulk optimization, and background image optimization. Additionally, Smush offers a 123-point global CDN for fast image delivery, incorrect image size detection, and multisite compatibility. Ideal for both beginners and professionals, Smush helps improve website performance and user experience, leading to better Google PageSpeed Insights scores and higher search engine rankings. With Smush, users can manage all their image optimization needs effortlessly, making it an indispensable tool for maintaining high-performance WordPress sites.

Image Optimization

Optimize images without visible quality loss.
Supports both lossless and lossy compression.
Ultra Smush for 5x image compression power (Pro Only).

Lazy Loading

Built-in lazy loading to defer offscreen images.
Improves page load speed by loading only visible images.
Enhances user experience and performance.

WebP Conversion

Convert images to next-gen WebP format.
WebP images are significantly smaller in size.
Automatic replacement of PNG and JPEG images with WebP.

Bulk and Background Optimization

Bulk optimize and compress images with one click.
Background optimization continues even when the plugin is closed (Pro Only).
Receive email notifications with a full report upon completion.

Features list

Feature

Premium version

Unlimited sites license

Allows the user to use the product on an unlimited number of websites.

Unlimited image optimization

Provides unlimited optimization of images to improve website performance.

50GB CDN

Offers 50GB of Content Delivery Network to speed up the delivery of your website's content.

50GB backup storage

Provides 50GB of storage space for backing up your website data.

24/7 WP support (ranked #1 online)

Offers round-the-clock WordPress support, ranked as the best online.

Pricing

Pro Basic

$15 / yearly

Plan includes

1 site license

Unlimited image optimization

5GB CDN

5GB backup storage

24/7 WP support (ranked #1 online)

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Agency Unlimited Sites

$100 / yearly

Plan includes

Unlimited sites license

Unlimited image optimization

50GB CDN

50GB backup storage

24/7 WP support (ranked #1 online)

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Rating and reviews

4.8

Rating summary

1484

Reviews

Active installations

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Users appreciate that the Smush plugin is easy to install and use, providing significant benefits to site performance by efficiently optimizing images. It simplifies image compression, resizing, and bulk optimization, which conserves time and site resources, and improves page load times. Features like automatic compression and comprehensive reports are particularly favored. However, some criticisms include difficulties with customer support for free users, issues with image restoration, and problems on certain hosting environments. Advertisement intrusions in the WordPress dashboard have also been noted. Despite these drawbacks, many users find it a reliable and effective tool for image optimization on WordPress sites.

okon1234

18 Aug, 2024

I have never seen something like this in all my yrs of using WP. A friend referred it to me I was hesitant but then just decided to give it some trial. I would definitely use it again for my second website

danielsebastian6

16 Aug, 2024

Super intuitiva y su funcionamiento está muy bien!!

luzlove

23 Jul, 2024

Easy to use and helpful.

gordsellar

11 Jul, 2024

I appreciate that this works in the background and doesn’t need any attention from me. Nice work!

vaanlionheart

05 Jul, 2024

Helps a lot and it’s free

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Smush

Overview

Compatibility

Customer support & learning resources

Changelog

Main benefits

About this plugin

Overview

Image Optimization

Lazy Loading

WebP Conversion

Bulk and Background Optimization

Features list

Pricing

Plan includes

Plan includes

Rating and reviews

User sentiment analysis

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FAQ

I just finished running Smush, but Google PageSpeed still says my images need compressing and resizing. How do I fix it?

PageSpeed Insights is telling me to defer offscreen images. Can Smush fix that?

Does Smush delete or replace my original full-size images?

What type of file should I use for my images (GIF, PNG, JPG)?

I’m a photographer. Can I keep all my EXIF data?

I just ran Bulk Smush and some of my images didn’t get compressed. Why would this happen?

I activated Smush, but I don’t see any difference in image quality. How am I supposed to know if Smush is working?

Can’t I just use Photoshop or another image editing application to optimize my images?

My Google PageSpeed test is telling me to serve images in Next-Gen formats. Can Smush do that?

Is it optimize or optimise?

How can I report security issues or bugs?