EWWW Image Optimizer

Are you frustrated by a slow website? Do over-sized images make you say “ewww”… Image optimization with EWWW Image Optimizer helps you make your site faster, improve your bounce rate, and boost your SEO. But most importantly, make your visitors happier so they keep coming back for more.

Why use EWWW Image Optimizer?

Get all this for free:

• Unlimited image optimization to compress images of any size
• Local image optimization mode compatible with most web hosts
• Lossless JPG, PNG, GIF, and SVG image optimization (8% average savings)
• WebP conversion compatible with all web hosts (60% average savings)
• Optimize images from any plugin
• Image Detective to help you identify improperly scaled images and better optimize LCP images
• Resize images at upload or in bulk
• Lazy Load with auto-scaling for responsive images–uses properly-sized placeholders to prevent layout shift (CLS)
• Sharpen thumbnail images for better quality
• Adjust JPG and WebP quality (AVIF quality configurable in premium)
• Control creation and optimization of individual WordPress thumbnails
• Convert images to the best format (GIF to PNG, PNG to JPG or vice versa)
• Local image backups
• Preserve GIF animations in thumbnails
• Free email support

EWWW Image Optimizer is the only plugin that lets you optimize images using tools on your own web server (jpegtran, optipng, pngout, pngquant, gifsicle, cwebp). This requires the PHP exec() function and a compatible Linux, Windows, MacOS, or FreeBSD web server. If your web server is not compatible, we offer unlimited lossless JPG image optimization and WebP conversion via our Compress API for free.

Upgrade to Premium for:

• 5x premium image optimization
• PDF optimization
• Automatic scaling for all images, even those in external CSS
• One-click WebP & AVIF conversion and delivery
• Enhanced responsive images that use correct dimensions for all devices
• WebP image optimization
• Deliver High-DPI images to devices with 2x and 3x screens (retina)
• Watermark images
• CDN delivery for images, CSS, JS, and fonts with custom domain name option
• 30-day cloud-based backups
• Premium support

Premium plans include SWIS Performance plugin with:

• Page caching
• Enable browser caching with long cache lifetimes
• Defer JS/CSS to eliminate render blocking requests
• Minify JS/CSS
• Critical CSS generation to prevent layout shifting (CLS)
• Optimize font display/self-host Google fonts
• Preload assets like fonts and LCP images
• Reduce unused JS/CSS
• Manage speculative loading

Automatic Everything

Optimize images on your entire site with a single click. With Easy IO CDN, images are automatically compressed, scaled to fit the page and device size, lazy loaded, and converted to next-gen WebP and AVIF formats.

Support

We provide free one-on-one email support to everyone.
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Bulk Optimize

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