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What is ImageEngine?

ImageEngine is a 3-in-1 image CDN. It uses our patented mobile detection software, image optimization, and our global CDN network to deliver images faster than any image compressor or CDN alone and at over an 80% cache hit rate. Plus, ImageEngine actually reduces your CDN bill, so you only pay for what you need. In 2015, ScientiaMobile launched ImageEngine, a smart image CDN, which accelerates websites by at least 60%. ImageEngine by ScientiaMobile is headquartered in Reston, Virginia, USA. We are small but mighty with global offices in Europe and India. Our Awards: 2021 - Washington Business Journal #36 Corporate Diversity Index - Small Companies in Greater D.C. 2020 - Best Tech Startup, Reston, Va., The Tech Tribune; NVTC Tech 100 2019 - Entrepreneur #108 Most Entrepreneurial Business in America; Best of Reston; NVTC Tech 100 2018 - NVTC Tech 100; Finalist, Moxie Awards 2017 - Rising Star Tech Company, Venture Atlanta 2016 - Top 20 Most Promising CDN Solution Providers, CIOReview; Ranked 1,295 of Fastest-Growing Private Companies, Inc. 5000 List 2015 - Top 100 Global Winner of Leading Private Startup Companies, Red Herring

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Accelerate Your Website With An Image-Optimizing CDN Don’t keep your customers waiting… Detect visitors’ devices, optimize images up to 80%, and deliver via a global CDN. Improve SEO ranking, sales conversion, and web performance scores Start your free trial today, no credit card required. See how easy it is to integrate your website with ImageEngine.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

ImageEngine is the only image optimizing CDN on the market that uses automatic device-specific resizing and formatting for file types such as WebP, AVIF, GIF, JPEG 2000, and more. Our device detection, using WURFL technology, ensures that every device receives a precisely optimized image. We deliver images with the highest visual quality and lowest byte size from a global network of device-aware edge servers. ImageEngine is 30% faster than other CDNs, with 49% more efficient payload optimization. We simplify image management, eliminating 90% of the responsive image coding and cost. This incredible solution has an easy setup (little to no coding required!) and even a free 30-day trial!


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Year Founded
2011
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Reston, VA
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Adrian S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Good and simple image optimisation software"
- helpful support - simple documentation - simple usage - good quality of service
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"Works great and easy to implement."
It was easy to drop into the web app we were working on and is solid. We haven't had any availability issues with it.
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What do you like best about ImageEngine?

ImageEngine uses and amazing device detection technology and have superior image optiomization which has improved our website performance significantly. Previously, our page load time was almost 5 seconds, which was a huge issue during our brand update wherein we wanted to be bold and be image heavy. Our website spans 80+ culture across various geographic location. There are thousands of new content pages created/updated each day which are multimedia assets heavy. It is imperative that any changes are reflected in the pages accessed from any parts of the world. We have content team that is notified for any new images that is added/updated. ImageEngine maintains image quality and reduces time and cost of image management.

During some very rare instances, if we the image is not same across entire geoprahic location, we are notified to manually purge the cache of the image. The dashboard has the ability to manually perform the purge the image without needing the support.

With ImageEngine, our response time of webpage is less than 2 seconds for 90% of our pages.

Additionally, the support is available 24/7. The support team take full ownership and ensure quick turnaround time for any issue. Furthermore, they have always shown willingness to be on a stand-by during each of our monthly releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ImageEngine?

Overall we are extremely satisfied with ImageEngine service and have no plans to look at an alternative. The only improvement we would like to see is to have some of their POP servers in China. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ImageEngine:

ImageEngine is offering world class services and better services at fraction of the overall cost quoted by big players in CDN industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ImageEngine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Previously, our page load time was almost 5 seconds, which was a huge issue during our brand update wherein we wanted to be bold and be image heavy. Our website spans 80+ culture across various geographic location. There are thousands of new content pages created/updated each day which are multimedia assets heavy. It is imperative that any changes are reflected in the pages accessed from any parts of the world. We have content team that is notified for any new images that is added/updated. ImageEngine maintains image quality and reduces time and cost of image management. With ImageEngine, our response time of webpage is less than 2 seconds for 90% of our pages.

Our business team is extremely satisfied. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Bethany Libus of ImageEngine

Wow! This is a great improvement - I'm so glad ImageEngine was able to help reduce your page load time from 5 seconds to 2 seconds on 90% of pages. I appreciate your feedback regarding China and I will pass it along to our team. Please let us know if you have any issues or concerns by emailing support@imageengine.io anytime!

Adrian S.
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What do you like best about ImageEngine?

- helpful support

- simple documentation

- simple usage

- good quality of service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ImageEngine?

- separate statistics

- no dns like Cloudflare configuration Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ImageEngine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Website loading fast Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Danielle St. Cyr of ImageEngine

We're so glad to hear that you find ImageEngine easy to use and that it's improving your PageSpeed! I'll pass along your comments about the configuration interface and statistics to our team. You can always reach out to our Support Team if you have any future needs or questions by emailing support@imageengine.io.

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What do you like best about ImageEngine?

It was very easy to get started, with support for multiple approaches to handling DNS decisions. Could use language-level libraries or not, depending on preference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ImageEngine?

If you have multiple sources for your images, you need to think about how you'll handle your prefixes a bit - not really a fault of imageengine, just something to think about carefully. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ImageEngine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Optimal image sizes and formats per device that we're targeting. Ability to leave source images in their current location. Better experience for our users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Bethany Libus of ImageEngine

Thank you for your glowing review! It's great knowing that ImageEngine was simple and effective to use. We love hearing this from our customers. Please reach out to our support team at support@imageengine.io should any issues arise.

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What do you like best about ImageEngine?

It was easy to drop into the web app we were working on and is solid. We haven't had any availability issues with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ImageEngine?

Nothing. It's great and exactly what I was looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ImageEngine:

Go for it. It's an easy and reliable solution if you're looking for a way to optimize images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ImageEngine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Resizing and serving next gen images from wordpress. It was a really easy thing to implement and improved our Google page speed rankings right away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Bethany Libus of ImageEngine

Thank you for your review! We are thrilled to hear that ImageEngine was simple and effective to use on your web app. Please contact our support team at support@imageengine.io should any challenges arise.

James P.
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What do you like best about ImageEngine?

Device aware and the fact it uses webP image format inline with Google web core vitals, therefore it helps your digital marketing. You must remember like every CDN you cant just install and expect it to work - you need to optimize the server and plugins Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ImageEngine?

like any CDN it takes time to see the results, I think its about 3 months Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ImageEngine solving and how is that benefiting you?

for my affiliate websites (shops) it makes them faster. designluxuria for example has over 90,000 products and they of course all have images - makes them load faster in the next-gen format, inline with Google algorithm, delivering the images for the users device Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Bethany Libus of ImageEngine

Thank you for your review, James! We are so glad that ImageEngine improved your Google core web vitals and helped with your DesignLuxuria website page speed-even in next-gen formats. Please let us know if you ever need any assistance in optimization, implementation, etc. by contacting us at success@imageengine.io.

Joel B.
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What do you like best about ImageEngine?

After vetting a number of solutions to comply with Google's Core Web Vital requirements, ImageEngine was a clear leader in Page Speed performance upgrades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ImageEngine?

I have been completely satisfied with this solution and have been deploying it regularly as a part of our website development services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ImageEngine:

Great product with an excellent support team. Highly recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ImageEngine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Page Speed performance is not only visible in normal browsing activity, but recognized in page speed performance testing. ImageEngine works as advertised. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Bethany Libus of ImageEngine

Wow, thank you so much for your review, Joel! I'm so glad you are enjoying ImageEngine. If there are ever any issues, please reach out to our customer success (success@imageengine.io) or support team.

Adam P.
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What do you like best about ImageEngine?

The ease of install and usage! It was really simple to setup and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ImageEngine?

I think beyond the initial install the optimization process takes some practice to set properly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ImageEngine:

Give it a try, you won't regret it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ImageEngine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Speed is the number one concern for us and ImageEngine made such a speed difference! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Bethany Libus of ImageEngine

Thank you so much for your review, Adam! We are really glad you found ImageEngine easy to use and install. But we are really interested to know more about any hurdles you had in setting up ImageEngine. Please reach out to our customer success team anytime with feedback so that we can make this process smoother for you and future users at success@imageengine.io.

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What do you like best about ImageEngine?

Love the auto-optimization across multiple devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ImageEngine?

The WordPress plugin is functional but could use some UX/UI love. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ImageEngine solving and how is that benefiting you?

We were able to quickly integrate our very large WordPress site and auto-optimize across all devices with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Bethany Libus of ImageEngine

Thank you for your feedback, Mark! I will send your thoughts on UX/UI improvements for the WordPress plugin to our team. And please do not hesitate to reach out to our customer success team at success@imageengine.io.

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What do you like best about ImageEngine?

Ability to keep images in skew while building on multiple platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ImageEngine?

Pretty neat tool, no real complaints. Great for users of all skill sets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ImageEngine solving and how is that benefiting you?

It's helped with placing images on sites. Makes for a better UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Bethany Libus of ImageEngine

Thank you for your review! We are so pleased that you enjoy our product. However, given the great experience you had, I am confused by the low star rating. Could this have been an error? And, of course, should you ever have any issues with ImageEngine, please feel free to offer any feedback or ask questions to our customer success team at success@imageengine.io.

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What do you like best about ImageEngine?

1. Simple to implement

2. Device detection

3. Optimization based on Device detection

4. Customer support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ImageEngine?

1. Payment systems need some improvement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is ImageEngine solving and how is that benefiting you?

Delivery of device-optimized images to reduce the loading time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Bethany Libus of ImageEngine

Thank you for your review and we are so glad you are enjoying ImageEngine! I will also send your feedback about payment systems to our team. If you have anything else you'd like resolved or help with, please do not hesitate to contact our customer success team at success@imageengine.io.