Title: Optimization plugin along with Jetpack
Last modified: January 29, 2017

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# Optimization plugin along with Jetpack

 *  Resolved [Rodrigo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vejapixel/)
 * (@vejapixel)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimization-plugin-along-with-jetpack/)
 * Hello guys,
 * I have activated the Jetpack image optimization feature, is there any need to
   have another optimization plugin like Smush, Imagify, Shortpixel, EWWW, among
   others? Using any of these plugins along with Jetpack would better still the 
   lightness of the images, or does not make any different, or can even generate
   conflicts?
 * Agadeço.
    Rodrigo

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 *  [ShortPixel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shortpixel/)
 * (@shortpixel)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimization-plugin-along-with-jetpack/#post-8719079)
 * 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](https://shortpixel.com/contact)
 * Thank you,
    Alex @ ShortPixel
 *  Thread Starter [Rodrigo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vejapixel/)
 * (@vejapixel)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimization-plugin-along-with-jetpack/#post-8720237)
 * Hello Alex, okay!
 * The Shortpixel and Jetpack of the same company?
 * Thank you.
    Rodrigo
 *  Plugin Author [Jeremy Herve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeherve/)
 * (@jeherve)
 * Jetpack Mechanic 🚀
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimization-plugin-along-with-jetpack/#post-8721300)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/) 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.](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortpixel-image-optimiser/)
      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](https://shortpixel.com/pricing).
    - 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.](https://developer.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/lossy-image-compression-with-photon/)
      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](https://developer.wordpress.com/docs/photon/api/).
      
      In addition to this optimization process, Jetpack’s Photon service is also
      a [Content Delivery Network](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.
 *  [rwnfrnnd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rwnfrnnd/)
 * (@rwnfrnnd)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optimization-plugin-along-with-jetpack/#post-9338968)
 * [@jeremy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremy/),
 * Your conclusion is exactly what I thought. But thanks for the clarification.

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