File & conversion tools / Squoosh
Squoosh
Squoosh is the ultimate image optimizer that allows you to compress and compare images with different codecs in your browser.
Where it stands
3.3 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 1 of 3 signals
- Website health3.4 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
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Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Squoosh yet. How tests work
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Measured signals
3.4 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Squoosh's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 161 ms.
- Security2.8 / 51 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security).
- Privacy4 / 51 third-party tracking service found: Google Analytics.
- Transparency1 / 5No privacy policy linked; no pricing page linked.
Community feedback
Not enough discussion yet: 5 classified comments from 3 threads. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.
- Positive
“One of my browser tabs is always open to Squoosh, it's an awesome tool. If only I could hook Squoosh in during Hugo site builds...(looks like that might be possible with their CLI, hopefully some whip-smart kid with lots…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“The Squoosh folks are in here so I just want to say thank you it is a fantastic piece of software”
Read in the thread - Critical
“Squoosh does not use best-in-class codecs [1]. Lossless PNG compression is 5-15% worse on average and lossy PNG compression (color quantization) is limited to PNG-8, which is not enough to maintain image quality”
Read in the thread
Threads: Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser (2021, 68 comments) · Squoosh: Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser (2019, 35 comments) · WASM based image optimizer by Google – Squoosh (2018, 5 comments)
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Tasks and scores
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