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Imagify — Online and CMS image compression
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I would like to know if there's some lack of quality from the algorithm to print products. Is it possible use these images to get high quality print files?
Hey there,
This is a useful tool for me. I run the newsletter Tedium (http://tedium.co/) and frequently have to compress images for both email purposes and for the web.
I just tried out the compression here and was pretty impressed with the results. I frequently use https://compressor.io/ for compressing GIFs, and the compression with Imagify is about as good with this tool as it is with that, but this has the advantage of being able to do bulk compression processes. So props on that front.
Regarding the CMS/API, a couple of thoughts:
- Consider creating a plugin/integration for Ghost, if you haven't already.
- One thing that I think could be worth looking into down the line: I want a tool that can automatically convert GIFs to video formats, along the lines of gfycat. I already rely on such a tool for my own site, Cloudinary, but their pricing is very high. Your pricing appears more reasonable. (I pay $50 per month for the service, which is high for my use case.)
@shortformernie Hey Ernie, cool feedback!
Yes, Ghost in our list of plugin to create. Will wait more feedback to start the next integration.
Our code product is images, we are going to have a look at the gif converter though, good idea :)
@jb_ma I realize images are your core product, but in the case of GIFs, there are size advantages that can be gained by allowing conversions into formats like WebM and mp4. It's a conversion that can prove a major bandwidth-saver for users.
Anyway, thanks for getting back to me! :)
There are so many great FREE option available online, What sets you different and why should anyone pay?
@bhuvanthaker The mainly reason is the performance. Imagify is really powerful regarding the compression results!
Love the look of this product and the way it has been executed, especially as a wordpress plugin. Great work!
Do people really need to compress images on a monthly basis? For me this has mostly been a one-time thing and if there are more images to compress in the future, there are countless other but free solutions.
@kampitsch Hi, it depends to your need. If you have a small blog and you write 1 post per week, a free tool or our free plan is enough. If you write 2/3 posts per day, you don't have the same need and a free tool won't be enough in this case.
Unsplash by Crew uses Imgix (https://www.imgix.com), they serve 350 million images per month and it's blazing fast as you can see, also pretty optimized. As I know, Imgix uses CUDA GPU chips for image processing, not just standard servers + ImageMagick or some other solution.
It costs $3 for 1000 master images and 8 cents per gigabyte. For Unsplash, it's $120 for master images and for approximately $15k for bandwidth.
Great product! I used to work with tinypng, but your results are waaaay better. And I dig your front-end it's 🔥! You definitely got yourself a new user. Would be awesome if the file size limit for free users would be a bit higher (like 10mb, to handle those unsplash biggies), but I guess you need to draw the line at some point, right? ;)
@itsdavelux Thank's David :) Kudos to @edenpulse for the design and the whole team.
Yep 5mb is already pretty big, like you say we need to draw the line :)
@philipheinser @geekpressfr
It's Przemek, Kraken.io co-founder here. Kraken.io offers a solution which will never compromise on the output quality of your images; while byte savings are crucially important, quality is king, we believe that an untrustworthy solution is not a solution at all.
1. At Kraken.io we use our own, multi-CPU dedicated machines deployed to a Tier-3 datacenter
2. Kraken.io is trusted by the biggest brands including Microsoft, Tesla, Nvidia, Nasdaq, Kaspersky, Eset
3. Kraken.io offers the most advanced image manipulation API available
@philipheinser Hey Philip, thank you for stopping by :)
kraken.io is a great service, you know it's like choosing a car, it's mostly a personal choice depending to your feelings about it.
Compression, pricing is a bit different, I would recommend you to test it and choose the one which suits you the best.
By the way, our roadmap is public if you want to have a look at our upcoming features : https://trello.com/b/3Q8ZnSN6/im...
@matylla @philipheinser @geekpressfr I don't think it's fair to label anything 'an untrustworthy solution' because it may be similar to yours.
Asking hard questions is encouraged but trying to put down other makers is not IMO. The best cases of the community are not when people use this tactic but instead are supportive of others in the space and give feedback.
Example of why this community is so great:
@matylla @philipheinser @geekpressfr I agree with @bentossell that jumping into a competitor's post to call it untrustworthy because they are new isn't the best move.
I tested Imagify vs some other compression plugins and some Desktop software for reducing images sizes.
Result was that Imagify additionally optimized already optimized images on all sites in average of 40-50%!
How is this possible without reducing quality of the images (leaving it on the very high level) - I really don't know... but I don't care as long as it works so good in reducing images without ruining their quality. :-)
@profi_tools Wow, can confirm. My very first test reduced the file size by 38% vs. TinyPNG's 9%. That's seriously impressive.
@joeadamg I am happy you had the similar experience as I did :-) I didn't notice any lowering of images quality, did you?
Just ran a test of this Imagify (aggressive) vs Tinypng on a 432 kb png file. Result: Imagify: 103.6kb, tinypng: 97.0 kb.
@roygolombick Try our Ultra mode too :)
I also suggest you to test on different images and also different formats (JPG, PNG, GIF). Like websites, all images are different ^^
I've tested this software against pretty much all other WordPress compression tools and this really is the best. I absolutely love it, the constant improvement and the customer service from the team.
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