The user who visits the page from a smartphone will not need to see the image in the same size as a user who uses a laptop. Say you upload an image and you add it on a page in its full-size version.

It serves adaptive images: thatвЂ™s where the name of the plugin comes from.

It compresses the images: the images served from the ShortPixel CDN are optimized using ShortPixelвЂ™s powerful optimization algorithm, which offers 3 levels of optimization, Lossy, Glossy, and Lossless.

By loading the images from ShortPixelвЂ™s CDN, what you are doing is increasing the loading speed of the page (because most likely the CDN loads faster than the average hosting provider, in addition to having servers all over the world) and saving some resources from the server, as the images wonвЂ™t be requested from there but from ShortPixelвЂ™s CDN. Thus, any user will have good loading times, regardless of what country or area they are located in. In simple words, it is a group of servers distributed around the world that contains copies of a specific website. What is a CDN? It is a Content Distribution Network.

It serves the images from a CDN: ShortPixel Adaptive Images takes all the images viewed by the visitors of a website and serves them from ShortPixelвЂ™s CDN.

Here are the 4 major things that ShortPixel does:

Why You Should Choose ShortPixel Image Optimizer?.

Installing And Setting up ShortPixel Adaptive Images.How does ShortPixel Adaptive Images Work?.What Does ShortPixel Adaptive Images Do?.

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