Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN

Smush is a WordPress plugin by WPMU DEV - Your All-in-One WordPress Platform, first published on WordPress.org in 2008. It has 1,000,000+ active installations and 70,568,105 downloads in total, and ranks #65 in the WordPress.org plugin directory. Its directory rank held steady over the past week. Users rate it 4.8 out of 5 across 6,053 reviews. Version 4.3.5 was released 3 days ago, so the plugin is actively maintained. It is tested up to WordPress 7.1.3 and requires WordPress 6.4 and PHP 7.4 or later. In the last two months, 8 of 8 support threads were marked resolved (100%). It is listed under compress images, convert webp, image optimization, image optimizer and optimize images. Plugins with a similar focus include Imagify Image Optimization, Converter for Media and ShortPixel Image Optimizer.