Title: [Plugin: ImageMagick Engine] vs smush.it ?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: ImageMagick Engine] vs smush.it ?

 *  [Moogle Stiltzkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moogle-stiltzkin/)
 * (@moogle-stiltzkin)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-imagemagick-engine-vs-smushit/)
 * I just tried imagemagick on my backup server.
 * Looks nice but it doesn’t quite tell you how much filesize savings you got from
   compressing using imagemagick.
 * Whereas Smush.it does.
 * Also what is the difference between imagemagick and yahoo smush compression methods?
 * I like how your plugin has an option to regenerate the images and run them through
   using your image compressor, but i think it would be nicer using the yahoo smush
   api instead for image compression seeing as that works well, and has a before
   and after value so you know how much space you saved.
 * Just a suggestion.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/imagemagick-engine/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/imagemagick-engine/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Orangelab](https://wordpress.org/support/users/orangelab/)
 * (@orangelab)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-imagemagick-engine-vs-smushit/#post-2181305)
 * Thank you for trying it out!
 * Using ImageMagick will generally not result in smaller images compared to the
   default GD image library. It will definitely not be smaller than smush.it.
 * It is a trade off: use this plugin when image quality and colors are more important
   than the file size.
 *  Thread Starter [Moogle Stiltzkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moogle-stiltzkin/)
 * (@moogle-stiltzkin)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-imagemagick-engine-vs-smushit/#post-2181323)
 * fair enough.
 * I guess for an already popular site like deviantart, they want the best quality
   to be shown.
 * But on a regular joe site, SEO is more important, so they’d smush the images 
   to reduce file size = faster loading for pages with lots of images like mine :}

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 * Last reply from: [Moogle Stiltzkin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moogle-stiltzkin/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-imagemagick-engine-vs-smushit/#post-2181323)
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