How to use the Image Checker tool
Starting with version 2, ShortPixel Adaptive Images offers a straightforward tool to check the status of the optimized images on a page of your site. Just log in to your WordPress admin panel and then visit your front-page. On the Toolbar you will notice a ShortPixel icon:
Click on that icon and you will turn on the Image Checker. A tag will appear for each image: "CDN" or "ORIGIN". "CDN" means that the image is served optimized from our CDN, and "ORIGIN" that it's served from your server or, in other words, that ShortPixel Adaptive Images is not processing it.
Also, the cursor will change to a cross (⌖) and when you click on an image, you will get additional information and actions:
The popup displays information about scaling and file size, and it offers the following actions as well:
- Exclude images like this one from optimization - Allows you to exclude from optimization the images that are displayed in the same way/place in all the pages, based on a CSS selector. The images won't be served from ShortPixel's CDN either. More details below.
- Exclude this image URL - Will exclude only this specific image from optimization, based on its URL. The image won't be served from ShortPixel's CDN either.
- Do not resize images like this one - Same as action #1, but it will only prevent these images from being resized. The optimization and serving from ShortPixel's CDN will still happen.
- Do not lazy-load images like this one - Same as action #1, but it will only prevent these images from being lazy-loaded, resized and converted to WebP. The optimization and serving from ShortPixel's CDN will still happen.
- Refresh on CDN - This will send a request to refresh the image on our CDN. This is useful if you edited the image and replaced it keeping the same file name (for example using the Enable Media Replace plugin) so the URL did not change.

