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ImageKit.io

Score8.9 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is ImageKit.io?

ImageKit's real-time media processing APIs and Digital Asset Management platform help tech, marketing and creative teams to deliver, manage and collaborate on media assets at scale. It streamlines the media lifecycle on one platform for a seamless visual experience.

ImageKit offers:

- Real-time Media Processing: Delivers images and videos on websites and apps in real time with a unified URL-based API with 50+ transformations, intelligent format optimizations, and compression.
- Adaptive Bitrate Streaming: Delivers a native Youtube-like streaming experience that adapts to the user's network
- Media Personalization: For dynamic videos and images at scale with ImageKit's real-time, URL-based Layers transformation API.
- Fast global delivery: Delivers high-quality images and videos tailored to the user's device and bandwidth with an integrated CDN.
- Digital Asset Management (DAM): Central hub for digital assets like product images, banners, and social media posts to efficiently manage, search, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Media workflows: To build custom front ends & integrations with apps, CMS, PIM, and other systems using APIs and plugins.

Media

Image optimization and transformations
Video optimizations, transformations, and streaming
Media personalization
Digital Asset Management for teams

1 / 4

Blazing fast Image delivery and on the fly optimization for any device or browser!

Pros

  • Automatically convert images for fast delivery based on browser support and network quality.
  • Well-documented integration documentation that is easy to follow when getting started with your implementation.
  • Easy to navigate user dashboard for setup and management of server origins and account settings. The usage analytics page is also handy to track and fix any 404 errors there might be for an image/s.

Cons

  • The Usage Analytics page could be laid out a little better and include filtering options, options may include path, country, IP Address, etc.
  • The ability to add an additional user to the starter plan would be great to illustrate the possibility to new customers.
  • The API Reference guide could include some more section-specific code examples for each of the supported technology stacks.

Most Important Features

  • Chained Image Transformations
  • Automatic Conversion of image format
  • Network speed based image optimization

Return on Investment

  • Improved Page Load times
  • Increased SEO value of current store pages
  • Conversion Rate increase

Alternatives Considered

Cloudinary

Other Software Used

Algolia, OpenCart, Google Tag Manager

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Pros

  • The imagekit team is very hands-on. Whenever we had a question or an issue, we were able to reach out via their chat and got friendly and competent replies quickly.
  • The documentation is superb and the web interface is very user friendly as well.
  • The cost is reasonable, but can blow up if traffic blows up.

Cons

  • We don't have any issues with imagekit whatsoever. The only thing that always can be improved with pretty much any service is cost, but I understand that this is a tough call, as they are basically just forwarding bandwidth cost from AWS that we would have anyways if we would build this service ourselves.

Most Important Features

  • Thumbnail generation
  • React component for lazy loading images
  • CDN

Return on Investment

  • Our code has become easier to maintain, we no longer need to let the backend generate thumbnails
  • Our site speed up significantly, which boosted our SEO ranking
  • We had a similar solution built in-house on AWS lambda, but we no longer have the headache to maintain this solution ourselves.