Images can significantly slow down your website which is why it is essential tosave all your images optimized for web. Recently one of our users asked us about the pros and cons of using a plugin like WP Smush. In this article, we will discuss the pros, cons, and alternatives of WP Smush for optimizing images in WordPress.
What is WP Smush? WP Smushis a WordPress plugin that allows you to optimize images without losing quality.Pros of WP SmushWP Smush is very easy to use, and you can optimize your images on the fly as you upload them to your WordPress site.For your older images you can go toMedia WP Smushto bulk smush 50 images at a time.
For beginners, it is an easy and simple way to optimize their images and improve their site performance.Cons of WP SmushThe performance difference is not as significant as you can get with other methods.For example, if you are uploading a 3 MB photograph to your WordPress site, then WP Smush reduces it by 10-20% without losing quality. It is still 2.4 to 2.7MB file, which is huge.WP Smush gives you no control on how much you can optimize an image. While it does reduce the image file size, it is not the best solution.
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