Add to Home Screen & Progressive Web App vs Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN

🌟 Captivate your mobile visitors with a beautiful, customizable prompt on iOS and Android, encouraging them to add your site to their home screen. 🚀 Your site instantly transforms into a fast, smooth Web App, delivering a native-like mobile experience without the cost of building an app. 🛠️ Works seamlessly on both single-site and multisite installations. Network-wide settings are available for consistent configuration across all subsites. Perfect for blogs, businesses, e-commerce, online courses and WordPress multisite networks. 📺 Watch the quick video introduction Why Choose This Plugin? Engage Mobile Users: Prompt visitors to save your site as an app-like icon on their phone, keeping them coming back. Cross-Platform Support: Works on Safari and Chrome for iOS, as well as Chrome for Android, ensuring maximum compatibility across mobile devices. Cost-Effective: Build an app-like experience with WordPress and Progressive Web App (PWA) standards—no need for native iOS or Android app development. Multisite Ready: Seamlessly applies PWA settings across all subsites in a WordPress multisite network. Free & Pro Options: Start with robust free features and unlock premium capabilities for advanced customization and analytics. 2025 Update: Enhanced performance, improved multisite support, and new Pro features to make your PWA shine! Fully compliant with WordPress standards and optimized for the latest devices. 2026 Update: Fully adapted to the new Safari iOS share sheet flow (iOS 16.4+), which requires additional steps to reach “Add to Home Screen”. Free Features Customizable Floating Balloon: Display a stylish prompt on iOS and Android with tailored messages, animations, and delays. PWA Basics: Enable core Progressive Web App functionality with a manifest for standalone app-like behavior. Multisite Support: Customize PWA settings, iOS floating balloon, and Android install button consistently across all subsites in a WordPress network. Touch Icon: Add a custom icon (192×192 or 512×512 PNG) for the home screen. Flexible Display Options: Show the balloon on all pages or just the homepage, with settings for returning visitors. Animations & Timing: Choose from drop, bubble, or fade animations, and set start delays and lifespans. Built-in Translations: Includes English, French, and German translations, with support for custom message translations via WPML, Polylang, Loco Translate, and more. Clean Uninstall: Safely remove the plugin with a proper data cleanup option to keep your site tidy. Lightweight & Fast: Built with performance in mind, using the proven Cubiq Add to Home Screen script. Premium Features (Pro Version) 🌟 Upgrade to the Pro version at tulipemedia.com for next-level PWA power: – Loading Spinner: Display a smooth, customizable loading spinner while your app content loads — fully integrated with your brand colors. – Pull to Refresh: Offer users a native-like refresh gesture on your Web App, just like on real mobile apps. – Bottom Navigation Bar: Enhance your PWA with a sleek, customizable bottom bar featuring Back, Forward, and Share buttons — for a smoother and more app-like mobile experience. – Dashboard PWA Support: Add the WordPress admin dashboard as a web app for quick mobile access — ideal for logged-in users or clients who need fast, app-like access to the WordPress backend. – Advanced Prompts: Fine-tune dashboard prompts for iOS and Android, with custom messages and icons. – Installation Tracking: Monitor how many users add your PWA to their home screens with detailed stats (GDPR-compliant, anonymized data). – Custom Colors & Spinner: Personalize the top bar and loading spinner color for a branded experience. – Custom Icons: Upload unique icons for frontend balloons and dashboard prompts. – Enhanced Multisite: Manage Pro settings at the network level for consistent PWA behavior across subsites, or customize per subsite for unique configurations. – Clean Uninstall: Safely remove the plugin (free and Pro) with a proper data cleanup option to keep your site tidy. Ready to elevate your PWA? Get Pro now at tulipemedia.com! 🌟 Demos Free Version: See it in action on tulipemedia.com (load on a mobile device for the full experience). Pro Version: Experience the Pro version on merco6.com (mobile view recommended). You’ll see the custom top bar color and loading spinner in action — both are fully customizable in the Pro version. Video Demo: Watch the demo video Who’s This For? Bloggers wanting to keep readers engaged on mobile. Businesses aiming for a native app-like experience without the cost. Online course creators & educators selling courses or training to engage learners on the go. Multisite network admins seeking a unified PWA solution. Content-Driven Businesses—coaches, trainers, content creators, researchers, journalists, educators, and consultants seeking to engage mobile audiences with a seamless Progressive Web App. Contribute 🌐 Translate: Help make the plugin accessible worldwide! Contribute translations at WordPress Translate. Donate: Support ongoing development with a coffee! ☕ Donate now. Rate Me: Love the plugin? Share a 5-star review on WordPress.org to help others discover it. Follow Me: Stay updated on Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Facebook, or YouTube. Credits Developed with ❤️ by Ziyad Bachalany. Uses the Cubiq Add to Home Screen script by Matteo Spinelli (MIT License). Support Need help? Visit our support page for documentation, FAQs, and contact options. Upgrade to the Pro version at tulipemedia.com. License This plugin is licensed under GPLv2 or later. The included Cubiq Add to Home Screen script is released under the MIT License: MIT License for Cubiq Script Copyright (c) 2013 Matteo Spinelli, https://github.com/cubiq/add-to-homescreen Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED “AS IS”, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. 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Compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load automatically with the powerful Smush image optimizer to keep your WordPress site fast, without losing quality. Smush makes it easy to optimize images, compress images, and deliver images faster across your entire WordPress site. This all-in-one image optimizer automatically reduces image file sizes, enables image lazy load, and serves modern formats like WebP and AVIF, all without breaking image quality or adding extra work. Whether you’re running a blog, store, or portfolio, Smush helps you optimize images at scale and keep your site fast with a trusted WordPress image optimizer. Trusted by 1+ Million Sites | 4.8/5 Star Rating Get everything you need to optimize images and speed up your site. Smush works out of the box with no complicated setup – just install and let it handle the rest. Compress images without losing quality Reduce image file size automatically while keeping your images sharp and clear. Smush is an easy-to-use image optimizer which let’s you compress images using both lossless and lossy compression, giving you the best balance of quality and performance without extra work. You can also compress images outside the media library using Directory Smush, making it easy to optimize images stored in theme folders, plugins, or other directories on your server. Lazy load images for faster pages Enable image lazy load across your site so images load only when needed. This image optimizer improves initial page speed and creates a smoother experience for visitors without extra configuration. Serve WebP and AVIF images automatically (PRO) Convert images to WebP and AVIF and serve them automatically to supported browsers. Smush helps you optimize images using next-gen formats to reduce file size and improve load times across your WordPress site. Deliver images faster with an Image CDN (PRO) Serve images through a global image CDN to reduce latency and improve load times for visitors around the world. 119 global CDN servers Up to 500 GB of bandwidth Faster image delivery based on visitor location Improved performance for image-heavy and high-traffic sites Automatically resize and fix image dimensions (PRO) Eliminate common PageSpeed warnings and improve layout stability with automatic image sizing. Smush dynamically resizes images to perfectly fit their containers, regardless of original size, helping fix the “Properly size images” warning in Google PageSpeed Insights. It also automatically adds missing width and height attributes to your images, improving rendering speed and reducing layout shifts. This helps you meet the “Ensure images have explicit width and height” recommendation without any manual work. Optimize your entire site, automatically Smush works across your whole site as a powerful image optimizer to optimize images as you upload them and maintain performance over time without manual work. Optimize images automatically on upload Compress images in bulk or individually Works with your existing media library No need to re-upload images Enable image lazy load across your site Convert images to WebP and AVIF Deliver images with an integrated image CDN Automatically resize and serve correctly sized images Optimize images outside the media library with Directory Smush Built for performance Smush improves page speed and overall performance by reducing image weight and improving how images are delivered. Reduce page load times Improve user experience Better performance for image-heavy pages Supports image lazy load and preload images (PRO) for faster perceived performance Works with your existing setup Smush is built to work with your current WordPress setup, including popular themes, page builders, and plugins. Compatible with Gutenberg, Elementor, WPBakery, and more Works with WooCommerce stores No need to change your workflow Easy to enable and configure Designed to be simple You don’t need to be a performance expert to optimize images with Smush image optimizer. Works out of the box Simple settings when you need them No technical knowledge required Safe to use on any site Why choose Smush? There are plenty of image optimization plugins, but Smush focuses on making it easy to optimize images, compress images, and improve performance without complexity. As a leading WordPress image optimizer, Smush gives you powerful optimization tools without the technical hassle. Trusted by over 1 million WordPress users Built specifically for WordPress Regular updates and improvements Backed by the WPMU DEV team Get started in minutes Install Smush, activate it, and start to compress images, optimize images, and enable image lazy load right away. This easy-to-use image optimizer helps most sites see improvements immediately without changing how they upload or manage images. About Us WPMU DEV is a premium supplier of quality WordPress plugins, services and support. Learn more here: https://wpmudev.com/ Don’t forget to stay up to date on everything WordPress from the Internet’s number one resource: WPMU DEV Blog Hey, one more thing… we hope you enjoy our free offerings as much as we’ve loved making them for you! Contact and Credits Originally written by Alex Dunae at Dialect (dialect.ca, e-mail ‘alex’ at ‘dialect dot ca’), 2008-11.