🆚 Cloudflare Images vs. Smush
- 📈 Smush is much more popular than Cloudflare Images.
- 🌍 Smush is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.8M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Type
Image optimization tool
Image optimization tool
About
Cloudflare Images is a robust, cloud-native image pipeline that ingests, stores, optimizes, and delivers images across a global network.
Smush is a WordPress image optimization plugin that provides global CDN delivery, WebP and AVIF conversion, and critical LCP image preloading on Pro plans.
It compresses images on upload and in bulk, applies lazy loading and automatic resizing, detects incorrectly sized images, and supports directory and background optimization.
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Melbourne, Australia
Pricing
Free version ✔️ Up to 5,000 transformations per month
Paid $0.50 / 1,000 unique transformations/month
Free version ✔️ No CDN and WebP/AVIF support
Pro
(CDN, 50+ GB traffic) $36+/year
(CDN, 50+ GB traffic) $36+/year
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Smush image optimization tool is 17 times more popular than Cloudflare Images.
Total websites
Market share
Image Optimization
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Smush is more popular than Cloudflare Images in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
Spain
Germany
Australia
Canada
Brazil
France
Italy
Netherlands
Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Indonesia in the Image Optimization category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Canada in the Image Optimization category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in the United States in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Image Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Smush is more popular than Cloudflare Images in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Online Shopping
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
See also
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.



