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Plugin Description
Optimole is the all-in-one solution to all of your image optimization needs. With full automation and a range of evolutionary features, Optimole makes it easy to clean up your heavy images and bloaty pages.
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Optimole optimizes your images in real-time with a cloud-based system to speed up your website and deliver high-quality images perfectly sized for every device. With a one-click setup and minimal footprint, you can start improving your site in minutes.
What makes Optimole so special?
- Smaller images. Same quality
- Fully automated; set and forget
- Supports all image types
- Supports both Retina and WebP images
- Machine Learning(ML) powered automatic compression
- AVIF format support for lower image size
- Streamline your media with Optimole’s custom DAM (Digital asset Management) solution
- Cloud image library support
- Edit images in the cloud library before inserting them into your website
- Serves images from a global CDN for free
- Optimizes based on the visitor’s actual device (no more guesswork and width estimations)
- Full support for page builders like Elementor
- Lazy load without jQuery (better)
- Add a splash of color to your lazy-loading placeholder
- Hero image optimization for speedier loads
- Boost wooCommerce gallery performance with Optimole’s lazy-loading
- More file types in the dashboard (video, audio, documents and more)
- Fully functional free version (we have paid plans as well)
You’ll be free to concentrate on other aspects of your site with Optimole’s set and forget image optimization.
So, if you have been looking for one plugin that provides lazy loading with a CDN and perfectly sized images, then Optimole is perfect for you.
Checkout a quick overview of Optimole plugin
How does it do all these great things?
Optimole’s format-based optimization is handled in the cloud on a case-by-case basis. Once you have the plugin installed, Optimole will replace all of your image URLs with cloud-based URLs. We don’t replace any images on your website, we compress images on the fly.
When the image is requested, Optimole will apply the specific transformations required by the device and deliver it to your visitors. This means every image is perfectly sized for every device. The final result will be cached for a month to ensure ongoing fast delivery and more site speed.
How many images can be optimized?
With the basic plan, you will be able to optimize an unmetered number of images for up to 5k monthly visits. All are delivered from more than 450+ locations around the globe.
Better yet. The free version is fully functional and includes all of the following great features:
Format-Based Optimization
Our cloud-based transformation process means we can optimize images based on the format as well as serve images in next-gen formats. If your visitor is using a WebP-capable browser, then Optimole will convert to WebP the image and send it to their device. AVIF support included.
Cloud Library support
Offload your website images directly to Optimole Cloud and save storage space on your server. Cross-share images between all your websites connected to Optimole.
Image Optimization
Our algorithms crunch the numbers to provide the best lossy or lossless optimization for the best-looking image at the smallest size using Machine Learning(ML) powered compression.
Digital Assets Management (DAM)
Elevate your media management with our custom DAM and utilize images from your Optimole account. The best part? You can now directly incorporate images from your Optimole account into the Elementor Builder. Additionally, we’ve seamlessly integrated DAM with the WordPress core editor, making image management a breeze. Access your Optimole images effortlessly, wherever you need them.
Exact Used Size
Optimole will use just one image and resize it delivering a responsive image to fit perfectly on your visitors’ devices. No more awkward guesses at potential screen widths. Serve scaled images instantly.
Retina Support
Optimole can detect Retina screens and deliver an image with the perfect Digital Pixel Ratio (DPR).
Smart Cropping
If you’d like to keep the most interesting part of an image; then you can enable smart cropping to help keep the image well-sized without losing focus.
Use Case: Introducing Lisa, a lifestyle blogger who loves sharing her adventures through captivating visuals. With Optimole’s Smart Cropping, Lisa’s images are automatically resized to fit perfectly within her post layouts. Whether it’s a breathtaking mountain landscape or a cosy café scene, Smart Cropping ensures every image tells its story without any hassle. Lisa’s blog now shines with effortlessly framed images that capture every moment beautifully.
No Content Shifting
The lazy load option defers offscreen images and is perfectly sized for the container to provide a seamless viewing experience without any content shifting.
Watermarks
Who has time for adding watermarks? Optimole will do the hard work for you. Just set it up and pick your preferred location and Optimole will add the watermark to all of your future images.
Use Case: Meet John, a passionate photographer with a growing online gallery. Adding watermarks used to be a hassle—until Optimole stepped in. Now, John can easily add watermarks to any or all of his images with just a few clicks. He can adjust the size, position, and much more.
Downgrade Quality For Slower Connections
Optimole provides an option to downgrade the image quality when it detects a slower network. Efficiently encode images by making up to 40% smaller with this neat feature to help visitors in a bottleneck.
Compatibility
Optimole loves page builders and has unique tweaks to solve image replacements. It also has full compatibility with the new block editor since WordPress 5.0
CDN
Optimole provides free access to an AWS CloudFront CDN with edge locations in more than 450+ cities around the globe.
Use Case: Meet Alex, an online store owner reaching customers globally. With Optimole’s CDN, his product images are effortlessly spread across AWS CloudFront’s 450+ global edge locations. This means shoppers from Tokyo to New York enjoy super-fast page loads, ensuring a seamless shopping experience and boosting Alex’s business success.
Custom Lazy Load Placeholder Color
Optimole enhances your lazy-loading experience by allowing for customizable placeholder colors. Now your placeholders can be as unique as your website.
More File Types
No longer confined to just images — Optimole Dashboard now supports uploads for a variety of file types like documents, videos, text, and audio, widening your media capabilities.
What About Security?
The stripped EXIF data is not stored on our service. Optimole likes to work behind the scenes, and won’t interact with your site’s visitors. No data is collected but you can check the Terms of Service
Smooth And Clean
Optimole can be installed in a few clicks and then left in the back end to do its job. Not happy with it? Optimole has a clean uninstall and your site will be just as before Optimole was installed.
Go Pro 🚀
Premium users will be able to optimize images starting with more than 50k monthly active users. Images in the Premium plan are served from AWS Cloudfront with over 450+ locations all over the world. Explore more features of Optimole Pro.
Support 🤝
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Documentation 📚
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