🆚 ShortPixel vs. Smush
- 📈 Smush is three times more popular than ShortPixel.
- 🌎 Smush is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
- 🌍 ShortPixel is more popular in Japan, Kyrgyzstan, and Senegal.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
SmushType
Image optimization tool
Image optimization tool
About
ShortPixel is an image optimization service with WebP and AVIF support and CDN delivery.
Smush is an image optimization plugin for 
WordPress that allows you to optimize and resize images, enable lazy loading, and compress media files in background mode.
Headquarters
Bucharest, Romania
Melbourne, Australia
Pricing
Free version ✔️Open source
Unlimited Monthly$9.99/month
Unlimited Yearly$99.90/year
Free version ✔️
Basic$36/year
Standard$60/year
Freelancer$120/year
Agency$240/year
Categories
Image Optimization › Rank #6
Image Optimization › Rank #1
CDN › Rank #16
WordPress Plugins › Rank #29
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Smush image optimization tool is 3 times more popular than ShortPixel.
Total websites
Market share
Image Optimization
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Smush is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain, while ShortPixel is more popular in Japan, Kyrgyzstan, and Senegal.
United States
United Kingdom
Spain
Germany
Australia
France
Brazil
Canada
Italy
Netherlands
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Poland in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Ukraine in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Portugal in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Hungary 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 Canada in the Image Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Smush is more popular than ShortPixel in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO
Online Shopping
Entertainment
Health
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.