images.tooling.report

Cropping

Can images can be arbitrarily cropped

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Introduction

Just like resizing, at a different browsing experiences make more sense with different image resolutions. Rather than shipping oversized images that end up getting clipped via CSS, an image optimization service can improve a site that much more by allowing full on cropping of an image.

The Test

Testing was an examination of documentation for each service to see if cropping was an available feature. If it did exist, its functionality was confirmed.

Conclusion

akamai
bigCartel
cloudflare

You can manually create the functionality via Cloud Workers

cloudinary
ecwid
fastly
goDaddy
imageEngine
imaginary
imgix
imgproxy
optimole
shopify
shortPixel

The functionality is offered by an additional plugin to WordPress from the same plugin author

smush
squarespace
thumbor
webflow
weebly
wix