{"id":2890,"date":"2026-04-06T11:37:57","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/?post_type=docs&#038;p=2890"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T11:37:58","password":"","slug":"compression-technology","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/article\/compression-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"ShortPixel Compression Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ShortPixel&#8217;s service is based on a SaaS model that offers image compression through our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/shortpixel.com\/api-docs\" rel=\"noopener\">API<\/a>, which you can access either directly or through various tools that we have developed specifically for this purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ShortPixel Architecture<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Behind the API, our service is built in several layers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A load balancer line-up consisting of an active load balancer and a backup load balancer designed to become active within seconds when needed, without requiring DNS changes. The load balancer also serves as a firewall.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A redundant pair of web servers that receive the API calls and deliver the optimized files.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The ShortPixel Balanced Processing Queue, which stores all optimization requests and ensures that all our customers get a fair processing time (customers with fewer images in the queue do not have to wait for customers with many simultaneous requests).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The image processing farm of servers \u2014 these servers crunch the images using ShortPixel&#8217;s powerful optimization algorithms and produce the optimized images.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The File Storage that stores the optimized images on fast SSD disks until they are retrieved via our API.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Accounting and reporting database that contains information about our customers and image optimizations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ShortPixel&#8217;s service is based on a SaaS model that offers image compression through our\u00a0API, which you can access either directly or through various tools that we have developed specifically for this purpose. ShortPixel Architecture Behind the API, our service is built in several layers:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_category":[56,62],"glossaries":[],"doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-2890","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_category-other-questions","doc_category-other"],"blocksy_meta":[],"year_month":"2026-04","word_count":189,"total_views":"4","reactions":{"happy":"0","normal":"0","sad":"0"},"author_info":{"name":"Andrei Alba","author_nicename":"andrei-alba","author_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/author\/andrei-alba\/"},"doc_category_info":[{"term_name":"General questions","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/other-questions\/"},{"term_name":"Other","term_url":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/knowledge-base\/category\/other\/"}],"doc_tag_info":[],"knowledge_base_info":[],"knowledge_base_slug":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2891,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/2890\/revisions\/2891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_category?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"glossaries","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/glossaries?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kb.shortpixel.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}