Each of the results from the plugins tests. If you'd like to save this image for yourself you can do so by clicking here or click save as. The image you see below is the control image. JPEGMini Pro which is extremely popular among professional photographers, and ImageOptim which is 100% free to use. We also looked briefly at two offline desktop apps, for fun. Although it's not popular, as it's new, the price makes it worth investigating. From what they're advertising the plugin will remain free. **** We tested this brand new plugin in its beta stage. The version we tested is disallowed on many managed hosting environments, including WP Engine. The standard version was tested, but a cloud version also exists with additional features and reduced server load. *** The plugin is available in two versions. ** Optimus will only compress up to 100kb without paying, so we could not use our control image at full size. * Smush will not compress the full-size image without paying, or offer common features without paying so we could not fully test this plugin Some plugins will overcompress but with an acceptible degradation. ![]() But some plugins have a habit of re-compressing the image files, in turn ruining the visual aesthetic of the photo. ![]() Many photographers already go through an image optimization and compression process when they save their photographs from Photoshop or Lightroom. We also include EXIF stripping as a factor of our comparison because we believe that EXIF should be retained in all images for SEO purposes. To determine precisely what parts of the control image changed from compression we used this tool.
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