Cloudimage

Score5.7 out of 10

7 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cloudimage?

Cloudimage offers a way to optimize and accelerate images for the web.

Cloudimage automates the transformation and optimization of images on the fly and accelerates their distribution via the Content Delivery Network (CDN). Cloudimage helps web pages to become faster and lighter, to improve both SEO and the user experience of the web or mobile application.

Built by Scaleflex, the Cloudimage plugin helps users to:

Optimize images on the fly; image URLs will be rewritten and replaced with Cloudimage URLs
Accelerate images via rocket-fast Content Delivery Networks around the world
Implement the Cloudimage Responsive Images plugin into code automatically, enabling responsive images on any web or mobile application

How does Cloudimage work?

Cloudimage downloads and caches: On the first image load, the image is taken from the user's server into its own cache. Cloudimage can be used as an image store as well.
The Cloudimage service crops, resizes, cuts, watermarks, colorizes, rotates, remove background and compresses images. Cloudimage converts images into WebP for even more size reduction.
Cloudimage aims to apply the best compression for the maximum level of byte reduction imperceptible to the human eye.
Images are delivered anywhere around the world via Cloudimage's multi-CDN architecture.

How to implement Cloudimage?

Libraries: Javascript (React, Angular, Vue, NextJS) et Ruby Gem
Plugins: Magento, WordPress, Prestashop, Opencart, Sylius.
Connectors: Kontent, Drupal, Prismic and Shopify

Cloudimage Feature-set:

- Unlimited websites, transformations, images

- Dashboards and reporting

- Delivery aliases

- Origin URL whitelisting

- Asset library incl. cloud storage

- Watermarking

- Background removal

- CDN delivery and invalidation

- Image compression

- Modern image formats (WebP, JPEG 2000, ...)

- All image transformations: crop, width, filters, auto-gravity...

- Lazy loaded and responsive images

- URL signature (on-demand)

- Multi-tenancy/token (from Rocket Plan)

- Custom CNAME and SSL certificate (from Pro Plan)

Categories & Use Cases

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Chris Mou

Technical Director in Research & Development at Sonaticket (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We needed an image manipulation service for a free-to-use system that would get a fair bit of traffic, but we couldn't afford to pay an arm and a leg for a competitor, especially since the images themselves could easily be hosted on our servers. By just providing the manipulation service with a fairly simple method for linking to our own hosting, Cloudimage fits our requirements perfectly.

Pros

Image manipulation
Connecting to self hosted servers
Delivers images to the browser

Cons

More integrated hosting options

Most Important Features

Value for money
Simplicity
Works with existing hosting

Return on Investment

Time saved

Alternatives Considered

Cloudinary

Nick Hutchins View profile

Senior eCommerce Developer in Information Technology at Regatta Ltd (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use CloudImage on our VueStorefront based eCommerce platform that uses a Magento backend. We have thousands of products, and CloudImage simplifies our image delivery to end customers. We need these images to be served quickly and without compression artifacts. Of all the issues we have had, image delivery, optimisation, and such has not been an issue with CloudImage at all.

Pros

Image Optimisation.
Localised CDN Delivery.
Image Compression.
Pre-made Software Integrations.

Cons

Pricing.
Intermittent Dashboard Issues.
Image resize traunches. So 100px windows of resizing rather than pixel-perfect rescaling to save on cache size/delivery volume.

Most Important Features

Image resizing.
Localised CDN delivery.
Lossless compression.

Return on Investment

Primary been a time saver!
Saves us rolling our own solution.
Increases conversion of the end user on average.

Other Software Used

Vue Storefront, Docker

Verified User

C-Level Executive in Information Technology (11-50 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We were using another image CDN provider (not European) and really did not find a compelling offer from them after their huge price hike. Trying to go with a fast but European based provider, we found Cloudimage (French) to be very professional, with good onboarding, [and] plenty of precise settings to bend their solution to our exact needs. Cloudimage is very fast, pricing is based on real metrics, not arbitrary amounts. Support is reactive and friendly. Upgrades are detailed in blog posts every month.

Pros

Great world-wide CDN
Excellent image quality with extensive processing options
Competitive pricing with progressive tiers
Good defaults but well organized interface to configure everything precisely

Cons

Having tiers based either more on source cache / CDN bandwidth (for some persons)

Most Important Features

Images can come from any source, and this source is always hidden
Processing scales very well (you can reset cache and have images regenerated quickly)
Processing, watermarking, protecting, is precise and fast

Return on Investment

Same or lower cost as before and more possibilities than before
Using a GDPR respecting, European (French) based company
Using more features like watermarking, fallback image, precise 404 handling

Alternatives Considered

imgix

Verified User

Executive in Corporate (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It was a solution to easily use CDN for images and the implementation was done with just an SQL request. So that was fitting our needs perfectly. The possibilities to resize images on the fly is also a must have of this solution and that’s why we recommend it obviously.

Pros

Resize images on the fly
Easy integration
Quick integration

Cons

Most Important Features

CDN
Image resizing
Integration

Return on Investment

Fast loading website, more orders
Better customer experience

Cloudimage