WP Fastest Cache & Cloudflare

Hello @1stoptravel

I trust you’re doing well!

The Smush plugin is an image optimization plugin. If the WP Fastest Cache plugin has features like Lazy Loading for images, it is the same feature and it is best to be enabled in one plugin of your choice.

I hope this helps!

Cheers,
Nastia

Thanks for the response,

Is Smush compatible with the Cloudflare Polish feature?

Hi @1stoptravel

Let me put it this way: it shouldn’t interfere with it but I can’t tell you if them both working together will “add up” for “more optimization” significantly.

CloudFlare’s Polish works, pretty much like entire CloudFlare, “in between” your site and end user. So whatever it does to images, it does it to them after they are already fetched from your site.

If you optimize images with Smush, such already optimized images will “pass through” the CloudFlare. I suppose that for some of them Polish may add a bit more compression/optimization and for some there’ll be no further change.

It shouldn’t conflict, though.

What could, however, be beneficial in this situation would be that with Polish at least some of these images would be cached at CloudFlare (which means faster delivery to the end-user) and also whenever an image is not in CF cache and has to be fetched to it from your site – it also will be fetch faster as it will be a smaller file (because it’ll be already compressed by Smush).

So overall, there might be some slight additional benefits and it shouldn’t conflict.

Best regards,
Adam

Hello @1stoptravel

I hope you are doing well!

We haven’t heard back from you for a while now so we’ve marked this ticket as resolved. If you do have any followup questions or require further assistance feel free to reopen it and let us know here.

Kind regards,
Nastia

yes thank you