Optimize images on-the-fly using Cloudflare's Image Resizing service, improving performance and core web vitals.
Elevate your site’s performance with this plugin that dynamically optimizes and resizes images using the Cloudflare Image Resizing service.
Experience a significant speed boost by delivering AVIF/WEBP images from Cloudflare’s global locations directly to your users’ browsers.
The plugin utilizes the fastest available PHP functions, without any database calls, ensuring minimum overhead in performance. Your website’s speed will not be compromised, but it will noticeably improve.
The Cloudflare Image Resizing plugin for WordPress enhances your site’s speed and performance by automating image resizing using Cloudflare’s advanced technology. But how exactly does this work? Let’s simplify it.
Usually, when you upload an image to your WordPress site, it creates multiple sizes of the image to fit different screen sizes, which can slow down your site. This plugin eliminates that issue.
The plugin taps into WordPress’s image management functions and changes the final URLs of the images in your site’s HTML code. Instead of pointing to the images on your server, these URLs now point to Cloudflare’s Image Resizing service.
When users visit your site, they aren’t just served images. Cloudflare resizes and optimizes these images on-the-fly, ensuring they’re perfectly sized for their device, enhancing load times and user experience. All this happens behind the scenes, making your website faster without any extra effort from you!
Once you’ve activated the Cloudflare Image Resizing plugin, you might be wondering how to check if it’s doing its job. Here’s a quick way to verify:
The Cloudflare Image Resizing plugin works by identifying the images on your site and applying optimizations. However, it can get confused if the filenames of your images are too complex or contain multiple dimensions.
For example, an image file named “image-100×200-100×300.jpg” might not be processed correctly. If you find that some images aren’t being resized, consider renaming these files and re-uploading them to your site. Simpler names, like “image1.jpg” or “product-shot.jpg”, are usually best.
Remember, the goal of image resizing is to deliver the most optimal version of an image for every user. So, it’s always a good idea to test this functionality on different devices and browsers to ensure all your users are getting the best experience possible.
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Please note that this plugin is developed and maintained independently, and is not officially affiliated with or endorsed by Cloudflare Inc. This plugin simply makes use of the image resizing feature offered by Cloudflare’s services. All trademarks and copyrights belong to their respective owners. For any issues related to Cloudflare’s services themselves, please contact Cloudflare’s support directly.
Not at all. The plugin has been engineered with a focus on speed optimization. It eliminates database calls and utilizes highly efficient PHP functions to ensure optimal performance, ultimately enhancing your site’s speed.
No, this plugin is designed to improve your SEO, not hinder it. Faster load times from image optimization contribute positively to your site’s SEO rankings. Better page speed, improved performance, and optimized images can boost your site’s position on search engine results pages.
The plugin will replace your existing image URLs with URLs from Cloudflare’s Image Resizing service in the final HTML output. However, this should not affect the rest of your site’s URLs or overall site functionality.
The plugin is focused on optimizing and resizing images, and it removes image metadata. You can change this by editing the config.php, please see below.
Cloudflare Image Resizing feature is a paid add-on in their Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans, and not available in the free plan. For the most current information, please refer to the Cloudflare website.
Yes, this plugin optimizes and resizes your images on-the-fly. As soon as an image is requested, it is processed and served by Cloudflare’s Image Resizing service, providing optimal image delivery with minimal delay.
Absolutely. By optimizing your images and speeding up your website, this plugin can help to improve your Google Page Insights score. The quicker your site loads, the better your user experience and the higher your potential score.
Please visit the settings page. Each option is explained in detail for easy understanding.
Please visit the settings page. Each option is explained in detail for easy understanding.
Yes, you can. However you need to edit manually the config.php as of this writing. If CF_IMAGE_RESIZING_WHITELIST is set to TRUE, the plugin will bypass images coming from the domains listed in CF_IMAGE_RESIZING_WHITELIST_URLS. This is useful for excluding images from sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc.
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