So I have been a user of Shortpixel's Image optimizer for years now. And been satisfied with it. I rated it as 5/5 stars when I bought that deal, and I continue to maintain my 5/5 rating on the image optimizer.

Regarding the Adaptive Images, however, I'd have to leave a 3/5 review, rating it an overall 4/5 deal. This is because of a small flaw.

Have a look...

https://cloud.westernston.com/JrugZ7vJ

If you want SPAI to also optimize the images within the background sections inside of CSS blocks, you can't do it unless you also simultaneously enable the "Minify the CSS" option. Which is something I just won't do, because I have other plugins for website optimization, while I'd rather Shortpixel just did what it does best - image optimization.

Actually, even Shortpixel is aware that this isn't exactly safe, so if try to enable this option, there's even a warning...

https://cloud.westernston.com/JrugZ77v

The warning reads:

"Please check your website after activating this option. If you have any other plugins that minify or otherwise handle the CSS files, this could cause conflicts and cause the background images not show."

What I fail to understand is that why would Shortpixel insist on necessarily minifying my CSS when all I want SPAI to do is to go in there and replace the images like it does everywhere else on the website.

Hopefully, they can at least provide different toggles for minifying as well CSS image replacement. Hopefully, a future update fixes this.

And when it does, it'll be a 5/5 for me.

Other than that, generous deal. And amazingly useful. Just not completely useful as it is right now, because CSS backgrounds are a huge part of any website, and for now I'm forced to serve CSS background images from my webserver rather than the CDN.

Hopefully someone from team Shortpixel will address my concerns.

With that said, unless you have a better solution for images, this deal is a must-buy.

-Lakshay Behl