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ImageRecycle pdf & image compression

ImageRecycle image & PDF compression. Make WordPress loads faster by using an automatic image and PDF optimization.

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Tested up to WordPress 6.8
Current version3.1.18
WordPress coverageTested up to WordPress 6.8
Minimum stackWP 3.5.1 · PHP 5.3
Directory statusactive
Last directory update30 Sept 20251y ago
Active installations1K+Adoption metric — not a quality score
WordPress.org rating4.5 / 5 from 26 ratings
Official packageDirect from WordPress.org

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WP PlugIndex currently records ImageRecycle pdf & image compression version 3.1.18 as active, updated 1y ago and tested up to WordPress 6.8.

Overview

About this plugin

ImageRecycle is an automatic Image and PDF compression plugin for WordPress. Your customers are waiting for your pages to load, it can takes long, especially on mobile devices. Even content is served in seconds by a fast server, slow connection can make your users leaving.

). Image and PDF optimization is more efficient than any other optimization tool.

Images can represent from 60% to 80% of a page weight, so an optimization can accelerate your page loading by x3 or more.

WORDPRESS IMAGE AND PDF COMPRESSION

It’s highly important in WordPress to make an image optimization because when you upload an image, 4 images are generated and stored on your server: a thumbnail, medium, large and original sized images.

Even more, some plugin can add their own image size for specific layouts like WooCommerce. All those images can be used in various conditions, it’s easy but heavy to load.

Image optimization with ImageRecycle plugin is automatic and reduce your page weight by up to 80%. This is highly recommended for SEO and high traffic websites.

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COMPRESS IMAGES AND PDF, NOT QUALITY

The jpg, png, gif optimization algorithm can reduce the image size by up to 85% (5x +), while the resulting photos are visually identical to the originals. We believe that image and pdf compression is a matter preserving the quality then reduce the size.

Reducing the image and pdf size can be done using a massive compression of data and result a worsened quality. We detect already compressed media and return original files.

WOOCOMMERCE IMAGE COMPRESSION AND 3RD PARTY PLUGINS

The plugin is highly configurable, and you can choose media folders to compress from your server.

So, it will work with all third-party plugins including WooCommerce, galleries plugin. Plus, you can of course optimize media from other folders (multiple site, another CMS…)

Test full service for free during 15 days.

Main features:

  • Compress automatically new images & pdf
  • Compress automatically existing images & pdf
  • Launch a full image optimization process in background and get notified by Email when it’s done
  • Determine which folder to optimize or not
  • 1 month all original media backup and one click restore
  • Image resizing
  • Define an optimization quality per media type (jpg, png, gif, pdf) > Lossy/Lossless/No compression
  • Define a min and max size to optimize
  • Optimize png, jpg, gif
  • Filter your optimized / non optimized media by status, date, file name

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How to optimize images with WordPress plugin:

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Requirements

Compression technical details

The jpg optimization tool is capable of reducing the file size of standard JPEG photos by up to 85% (5x +), while the resulting photos are visually identical to the original photos.

The script on the server is making a full analysis of:

* Colors radius sizes

* Textures

* Patterns

png and gif images optimization, it’s quite different, we use several methods.

* Quantization

* Choosing a better pre-compression filter

* Deflate compression algorithm enhancement

We also offer a PDF compression specifically optimized for web-based publication.

The quality for reading a PDF on the web will be close to the original. Depending of the tool and the quality setting used to generate the PDF, you can expect from 10% to 95%.

Exceptional compression results can be applied on PDF exported for print using Adobe Indesign for example.

Optimizations are:

  • Image optimization
  • Colors resolution reduction for grayscale, bi-tonal images and indexed images
  • Color conversion
  • Subsetting of fonts
  • Removal of embedded standard fonts
  • Removal redundant objects
  • Remove alternative images
  • Remove metadata
  • Resize image at exact size

Once the script detect some elements that can be optimized it runs the optimization on image zone that are mostly invisible to human eye.

We also eliminate non-standard elements added by some image software such as photoshop or Gimp. This process is completelly lossy and can be reverted.

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Plugin tags

Topics listed for this plugin in the WordPress.org directory.

  • image compress
  • image compression
  • image optimization
  • image resizer
Compatibility & maintenance

Compatibility & maintenance

Tested up to WordPress 6.8

Not yet marked as tested with WordPress 7.1. WordPress.org currently lists Tested up to 6.8.

Current WordPress releaseWordPress 7.1
WordPress.org Tested up to6.8
Minimum requirementsWordPress 3.5.1 · PHP 5.3
Update activity30 Sept 20251y ago

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