Smush – Image Optimization, Compression, Lazy Load, WebP & CDN vs Scrollsequence – Cinematic Scroll Image Animation Plugin

Scrollsequence allows you to create stunning image sequence animations that are controlled with mousewheel or touch. Turn static design into cinematic experience in few clicks. Make your website come alive, scroll through video and interactive content. You can use it to create an eye-catching animation sequence on your homepage or in individual posts and pages to offer a more cinematic, engaging way for visitors to consume your content. Never seen before on WordPress Scroll sequence technology was exclusive to big tech companies, who have budget and skills to implement it from scratch. Sony, Apple and Samsung made use of this background animation technique, learn how they made use of scroll animations and how to add this feature to your site with ease. Get Started Have a look at some examples on our website Play around in live demo sandbox Check the documentation Subscribe to our youtube channel Main Features Performance – Thanks to HTML5 Canvas image draw technology and lightweight scripts and HTML Drag and Drop – Reorder images, scenes and animations Animate HTML Elements – Write and animate content in sync with media WYSIWYG editor – Shortcode and oEmbed capability Compatible – Use with Gutenberg, Elementor, Divi, Oxygen, Beaver Builder and many others SEO – All content is visible for search engines Fully responsive – Mobile and desktop sizing and alignment options Media gallery – Backend upload and select Image preloading – Images are pre-loaded in the background Custom CSS – Add your own styles Image opacity and background color settings Scrollsequence speed settings Fallback option when user has Javascript disabled Options for footer and sidebar hide/display Native WordPress shortcode support Pro Plan Feautres Advanced Content Animation – Create Fade In, Fade Out, Move and Scale animations on scroll Unlimited Scenes and Images Smooth Scroll Delay – Add a delay effect to your animation to make it smoother Smart Image Pre-loading – Control how many images are loaded on page load before the animation is displayed SEO Friendly – All content added to Scrollsequence is indexable Priority Support Business Plan Feautres Cloud Media Tools – A collection of handy cloud based media tools Video to Image Converter – Convert source video into a sequence of images in seconds AI Frame Former – Increase number of image frames from your video in our cloud service for smoother animation WP Media Gallery Import – Import still images from your video directly to WP Media Gallery with one click What others say about Scrollsequence? ” You’ve never seen anything like this in WordPress. ” – Bjorn Allpas – WP Learning Lab ” This takes interactivity to another level. ” – Imran Siddiq – Web Squadron ” Game Changer – Really excited for the future of this plugin as out of the gate it’s amazing. Excited for what the future holds and looking forward to widget functionality perhaps in builders like Divi.” – Luke Dempsey ” Best execution of scrolly telling – I’ve tried a lot of ways to create scrolly telling content…from lottie files to scroll triggers to custom gsap stuff. None comes close to what Scrollsequence can do though.” – Leon Kiongwei ” Great plugin – It works, it’s fluent. You just need some time to understand the logic, but it’s fairly straightforward.” – P Fabor

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.