Best WordPress Optimization and Compression Plugin

  • jeremymh

    (@jeremymh)


    6 years, 11 months ago

    Hello!

    I would like to reach out to the great people here and get some feedback on making a decision on an image optimization plugin. I have been researching for several weeks and having a hard time deciding on the best direction to take. My companies website is a News/Media site and we have been working in the industry now for over 4 years. In that time we never did any optimization of images just due to not knowing that was a very key thing that everyone should do. Fast forward 4+ years our Media Library is now 35gb.

    I am trying to find a plugin that will compress the images well from the server-side then I am going to then have all the images pushed off the hosting company to Amazon S3 or that is my plan anyway to help boost and optimize the website. I have tried plugins such as Smush Pro but I hear the compression ratio is not that great, EWWW but it seems like to me it is kind of pricey, ShortPixel which I am not sure what it would cost due to having 35gb and I believe its all CDN delivery, and a variety of other tools. At this point, I am at a crossroads and want something that is solid that will do good compress to take my overall size down at the server-side then at the same time going forward to optimize that image any time a new one is added to the library before it goes over to Amazon S3.

    I hope this makes sense and I would greatly appreciate feedback, comments, and steer me in the right direction!

    Thanks!

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  • Davood Denavi

    (@binarywc)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    For images look at using https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/wp-smushit/ or https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/ewww-image-optimizer/ will give you the best results.

    In general other than images the question you are asking is highly dependent on the type of server environment shared, vps, dedicated… cpanel or not… and what host provider. There is no “best” service for cdn but personally I like CloudFlare because of how easy it is to set up with their branded plugin https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/cloudflare/ it says it has not been updated since 4.9.10 and while that may be true I have had no issues using it as recently as yesterday on a 5.2.2 site. 🙂

    Thread Starter jeremymh

    (@jeremymh)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    Thank you for responding. Above I mentioned we tried Smush It Pro and from some sites that have reviewed the plugin its compression ratio is not that great. EWWW seems solid but the free one dont do much at all from my experience and I would hate to invest a lot of money there if I am also doing Amazon S3 for offloading all my images.

    My server type is a VPS and using Inmotion Hosting. We do utilize Cloudflare and enjoyed it structure for sure. No complaints with Cloudflare I am just trying to tackle my images at the server end of things and hopefully compress and optimize them before they are sent to S3. Hope that makes sense.

    Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

    Davood Denavi

    (@binarywc)

    6 years, 11 months ago

    Yes, I saw that in your original post about the image optization… It sounds to me like the theme is causing the ratio issues. I could be wrong but in my experience when I’ve had ratio issues even after using one of those plugins for image compression it was the theme causing the issues.

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