ShortPixel
by ShortPixel
Remote image compression with AVIF delivery and safe originals.
This link may earn us a commission. It does not affect the score. Last tested 2 September 2026.
Measured result
ShortPixel on bench-01
Performance score
Measured on a 2 vCPU reference host
- LCP
- 1.38 s
- CLS
- 0.01
- TTFB
- 190 ms
- Page
- 398 KB
- Requests
- 29
- Impact
- Light
Median of 3 cold-cache runs, 2 September 2026.
How we tested
Pros & cons
- Compression happens off your server
- AVIF and WebP delivery without theme edits
- Keeps a restorable copy of every original
- Monthly credit model needs watching on large libraries
- Bulk runs on big media libraries take hours
The full review
Images are still the largest single payload on most WordPress sites. On our reference gallery page, ShortPixel's lossy setting reduced total page weight from 2.1 MB to 398 KB with no visible degradation at 100% zoom.
Because compression runs on ShortPixel's servers, the plugin adds effectively nothing to your own response time - the main reason it scores above self-hosted alternatives on shared hosting.
Compared with close alternatives
| Plugin | Score | LCP | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| ShortPixel | 92 | 1.38 s | Freemium |
| Imagify | 89 | 1.44 s | Freemium |
| EWWW Image Optimizer | 81 | 1.66 s | Freemium |
Frequently asked
Lossy or glossy?
Use lossy for photography and glossy where fine detail matters, such as product shots with text. Both keep the original file so you can re-run the other mode later.