The 8 Best Imgix Alternatives for Better PageSpeed and Core Web Vitals (Benchmarked with Case Studies)

Gumlet is an image optimization and CDN delivery platform that occupies the same architectural position as Imgix: it sits between your origin storage and your end users, fetches source images from your existing S3, GCS, or web-proxy origin, applies on-the-fly transformations via URL parameters, and serves the results from a multi CDN network spanning 700+ global points of presence. The core difference in the performance context is the degree to which optimization is automatic versus manually configured.

The performance evidence is specific and attributable across three published case studies.

TV9, India’s largest news and media network with over 50 million monthly visitors, achieved a 54% reduction in image bandwidth consumption after deploying Gumlet across its image delivery pipeline.

Simplotel, a hospitality technology platform powering booking engines and websites for over 3,000 hotels across 26 countries, achieved a 97% reduction in image size compared to their original files, and a 37% reduction in bandwidth consumption, with 36% better compression than their previous Cloudinary implementation. Simplotel’s CEO Tarun Goyal attributed a 16% average increase in organic traffic within 60 days directly to the improvement in clients’ Core Web Vitals scores following the migration.

Republic TV, one of the world’s largest news networks with 438 million viewers and six billion monthly YouTube streams, achieved an 86% reduction in image size compared to original files, a 21% drop in CDN bandwidth, and a 32% reduction in media operations costs, with 17% better compression than their prior ImageKit setup.