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ShortPixel Adaptive Images vs. Cloudflare Polish & Mirage services

Nobody likes waiting, especially website visitors on a slow-loading website. People shouldn’t be forced to suffer when trying to find information or make purchases. If your customers don’t get what they want when they want it, they’ll be more likely to bounce than convert (a.k.a. leave your website without purchasing, reading or doing what you want them to). It’s about time you fix that with a WordPress image optimization plugin.

Introducing ShortPixel Adaptive Images (or SPAI for short), while on the other side we have Cloudflare Polish and Mirage services. Please note that Cloudflare has several other image services, like Cloudflare Images and Cloudflare Image Resizing. These are oriented towards developers, as they require manual development. 
What sets those two apart? 
ShortPixel Adaptive Images Cloudflare Image Optimization
is a freemium WordPress plugin is a service that comes with a Cloudflare paid plan
500MB free CDN quota / month (or 500GB for $9.99/month) is not free at all, minimum $20/month
serves optimized images every time
serves optimized images only if the page is cached on Cloudflare itself
does not need any additional configuration needs you to configure Cloudflare to serve your site
automatically serves adaptive images requires manual configuration through Cloudflare Image Resizing
has 3 compression levels has 2 compression levels
supports WebP and AVIF files supports only WebP files
uses a better performing CDN (bunny.net) uses a worse performing CDN
has many more features and is much more flexible only has a couple of settings (quality level and on/off)

The verdict

ShortPixel Adaptive Images is definitely a winner. Give it a try!