Hi Rodrigo,
in my opinion ShortPixel optimizes images much better than Jetpack + has other features like image resizing that makes it very useful.
ShortPixel and Jetpack work well together but you can see this yourself if you activate both plugins.
If you need any other clarifications regarding ShortPixel you can contact us directly here:
https://shortpixel.com/contact
Thank you,
Alex @ ShortPixel
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Rodrigo
(@vejapixel)
Hello Alex, okay!
The Shortpixel and Jetpack of the same company?
Thank you.
Rodrigo
Hi Rodrigo,
ShortPixel and Jetpack are not developed by the same company, but they can indeed work together in some cases.
The 2 services are a bit different from one another, so it’s important to know what they do:
- ShortPixel can be used to optimize existing images on your site, and can also be used to optimize images as you upload them to your site. When setting up the plugin, you’ll be able to choose among a lot of options to decide how you want your images to be optimized. This allows you to pick the image optimization settings that best fit your site. To give you an example, if you’re a photographer you probably won’t use the same settings than if you’re “just” a blogger whose pictures are not that important.
Once your images have been optimized with ShortPixel, they remain on your site, and are served from your Media Library.
That’s the gist of what ShortPixel can do for you, but you can learn more on the plugin’s page.
The ShortPixel service is currently free for up to 100 images per month, and you then have to pay to be able to optimize more images. See pricing here.
- Jetpack’s Photon service offers similar services: when you activate the module, all existing images on your site will be optimized, and new images will be optimized as well. There is no Options screen; Jetpack applies a set of default settings for you by default. You can, however, change those default settings thanks to code snippets you can add to your site. Here is an example to enable lossy image compression for all images. You can use a similar method to remove EXIF meta data from your images, resize them, adjust their brightness, contrast, and more. You can find a list of all supported parameters here.
In addition to this optimization process, Jetpack’s Photon service is also a Content Delivery Network (CDN). That means that once you’ve enabled the module, all your images will be delivered to your readers via the WordPress.com cloud. Depending on where your readers live, they’ll get your site’s images from a server that’s close to their location. This allows you to save bandwidth with your hosting plan, and your images will be served faster as they’re delivered from one of our highly optimized servers.
That’s about it. It’s also worth noting that Jetpack’s Photon service is completely free, without any limits.
To conclude, I think you can use both plugins. There is just one important thing to remember: Jetpack’s Photon service caches all your images, so if you were to run ShortPixel to optimize all existing images after having activated the Photon service, it wouldn’t have any effect; Photon would continue to serve the old images, and not the ones optimized by ShortPixel.
I hope this clarifies things a bit.
@jeremy,
Your conclusion is exactly what I thought. But thanks for the clarification.
