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imgix

Optimize, manage, and deliver images and videos for faster pages, better visual quality, and a simpler workflow.

What is imgix?

imgix is the leading platform for end-to-end visual media processing. With robust APIs, SDKs, and integrations, imgix empowers developers to optimize, transform, manage, and deliver images and videos at scale through simple URL parameters.
imgix is a tool in the Image Processing and Management category of a tech stack.

Who uses imgix?

Companies
100 companies reportedly use imgix in their tech stacks, including Coursera, Zillow, and Product Hunt.

Developers
106 developers on StackShare have stated that they use imgix.

imgix Integrations

JavaScript, Python, Java, PHP, and WordPress are some of the popular tools that integrate with imgix. Here's a list of all 28 tools that integrate with imgix.
Pros of imgix
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Image processing on demand
24
Easy setup
18
Smart Cropping
18
Reduce Development Costs
15
Efficient
12
Insanely Fast
11
Filters, resizing, blur and more as url parameters
10
Easy to understand pricing
9
Professional Features and Options
6
Lightyears better than ImageMagick
6
Excellent Face Detection
5
S3 as source
4
Scales to your company's needs
4
Great for Dynamic Compositing
1
Video encoding
1
Fast Image Delivery
1
Free tier
1
Amazing support
1
Great libraries and integrations
1
Automatic scrset generation
Decisions about imgix

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose imgix in their tech stack.

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In mid-2018 we made a big push for speed on the site. The site, running on PHP, was taking about 7 seconds to load. The site had already been running through CloudFlare for some time but on a shared host in Sydney (which is also where most of the customers are). We found when developing the @TuffTruck site that DigitalOcean was fast - and even though it's located overseas, we still found it 2 seconds faster for Australian users. We found that some Wordpress plugins were really slowing the TTFB - with all plugins off, Wordpress would save respond 1.5-2 seconds faster. With a on/off step through of each plugin we found 2 plugins by Ontraport (a CRM type service that some forms we populating) was the main culprit. Out it went and we built our own WP plugin to do push the data to Ontraport only when required. With the TTFB acceptable, we moved on to getting the completed page load time down. Turning on CloudFlare 's HTML/CSS/JS minifications & Rocket Loader we could get our group of test pages, including the homepage, loading [in full] in just over 2 seconds. We then moved images off to imgix and put the CSS, JS and Fonts onto a mirrored subdomain (so that cookies weren't exchanged), but this only shaved about another 0.2 seconds off. We are keeping it running for the moment, but the $10 minimum a month for imgix is hardly worth it (this would be change if new images were going up all the time and needed processing). The client is overly happy with the ~70% improvement and has already seen the site move up the ranks of Google's SERP and bring down their PPC costs. AND all the new hosting providers still come in at half the price of the previous Sydney hosting service. We have a few ideas that we are testing on our staging site and will roll these out soon.

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imgix's Features

  • Image API - Resize, crop, and composite multiple images by changing their URLs. Change output formats, device-pixel ratios, and chroma subsampling rates.
  • Responsive Images - Integrate imgix into the latest imaging standards without reprocessing your entire image library.
  • Video API - process, optimize, and deliver your streaming videos.
  • Asset Manager - Search, visualize, browse, and organize any assets in your cloud storage bucket.
  • Image Editing - Make simple edits (focalpoint crop, width/height adjustments, format changes) directly in Asset Manager and easily download or copy a link to a modified image.
  • Deliver - Leverage the imgix global CDN with more than 20 POPs worldwide.

imgix Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to imgix?
Kraken.io
It supports JPEG, PNG and GIF files. You can optimize your images in two ways - by providing an URL of the image you want to optimize or by uploading an image file directly to its API.
Cloudinary
Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that streamlines websites and mobile applications' entire image and video management needs - uploads, storage, administration, manipulations, and delivery.
CloudFlare
Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.
Fastly
Fastly's real-time content delivery network gives you total control over your content, unprecedented access to performance analytics, and the ability to instantly update content in 150 milliseconds.
Uploadcare
Uploadcare is file management platform and a CDN for user-generated content. It is a robust file API for uploading, managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering users’ content.
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imgix's Followers
317 developers follow imgix to keep up with related blogs and decisions.