🆚 Imgix vs. Smush
- 📈 Smush is three times more popular than Imgix.
- 🌎 Smush is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
- 🌍 Imgix is more popular in Belgium, Sweden, and Norway.
Imgix
SmushType
About
Imgix is a real-time image and video processing and delivery platform that combines a URL-based transformation API, AI-powered editing tools, and a global CDN.
It provides more than 100 image transformation parameters for resizing, cropping, and format conversion, supports video clipping, thumbnail generation, and adaptive streaming, connects to 
Amazon S3 and 
Google Cloud Storage, offers a Generations API with text-to-image and image-to-video endpoints, and delivers assets through a 
Fastly-backed CDN.
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
wpmudev.comPricing
(CDN, 50+ GB traffic) $36+/year
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Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥇 Most popular in Belgium in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Norway in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Sweden in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Denmark in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in New Zealand 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.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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🗃️ 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.