Gumlet – Image optimization with Resize, Compression, Lazy load, Caching & CDN delivery
Official WordPress plugin to automatically load all your WordPress images via the Gumlet service for smaller, faster, better looking images.
4.4(10 reviews)
·600 active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, Gumlet is a WordPress images plugin with 600 active installations and a 4.4/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 63K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.3+ and PHP 5.6.3+. Available on WordPress.org since 2019. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Autoptimize.
4.4/510 reviews
600active installs
63K+total downloads
7 yearssince 2019
Overview
Gumlet is the One plugin to rule all 6 steps of image optimization in one go
- Auto resize images based on user screen size
- Visually lossless compression
- Convert images to WebP format
- In-built Lazy load
- Optimized images cached on Gumlet cloud
- CDN delivery by AWS CloudFront (215+ locations)
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Images make up more than 70% of your page weight. Optimizing images is the easiest way to improve page speed. A faster site leads to more engagement, sales and sign ups. Gumlet will help you INSTANTLY achieve maximum possible image optimization. This will also boost your image SEO.
This is an install and forget about it plugin. As soon as the plugin is installed all of the images on your site will be optimized. Gumlet does not touch your original images, they re…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 3.3+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 5.6.3+ required |
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Changelog
1.4.0
- Advanced setting: Auto Resize (auto_resize). When disabled, img src is set directly to the Gumlet URL instead of the placeholder pixel.
- Fix DOM parsing for img/source tags: do not entity-encode the whole tag before loadHTML (was preventing any img from being found).
- Support SVG URLs in replace_image_url.
- Normalize JSON-style escapes in fragments (wp_unslash, \/) before parsing.
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