Executive Summary

Many business websites—roughly 25 million in the addressable SMB and mid-market segment—struggle with slow pages because images typically account for 50–80% of page weight, which directly harms conversions and search rankings through poor Core Web Vitals. The people most affected are non-technical marketing teams and small engineering shops that lack the time or expertise to implement responsive images, modern formats, and automated pipelines across dozens or hundreds of pages. You could build an automated image-optimization platform that scans sites, converts and serves images in modern formats (AVIF/WebP) with perceptual quality controls, generates responsive srcsets, and performs on-the-fly edge transforms via CDN integration; offer SDKs/connectors for WordPress, Shopify, and common frameworks and a simple pricing target of about $500 ACV for typical business sites. Include measurable KPIs (page weight reduction, LCP improvements, bandwidth saved), an easy rollback path, and optional private-hosted or zero-PII modes for regulated customers. This market is attractive now: we estimate a $12.5B opportunity (25M sites × $500 ACV) driven by Google’s Core Web Vitals enforcement making performance a direct SEO and revenue lever, accelerating media-heavy pages, and the recent availability of edge compute and CDN transform features that make low-latency delivery feasible. Those technical and business tailwinds reduce friction to adoption and expand the set of customers willing to pay for demonstrated conversion lift. To stand out you’ll need a superior developer experience and deterministic visual-quality guarantees—think an ML-backed perceptual compressor, best-in-class SDKs, and transparent A/B test results for performance vs. fidelity—plus a clear positioning versus CDNs and incumbents. Be honest about the challenges: competition from Cloudflare, Imgix, and open-source tools is real, upfront CDN and egress costs require capital or clever partnerships, and customer trust around image fidelity and site availability will make sales cycles longer than for pure plugin products.

Executive Summary

Market Opportunity

Reduce page weight & speed up sites with automated image compression targets a $12.5B = 25M addressable business websites x $500 ACV (site performance/image optimization SaaS mix) total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12-18% — driven by Core Web Vitals adoption, mobile traffic and CDN/edge feature expansion.

Key trends driving demand: Core Web Vitals enforcement -- search ranking makes performance a direct revenue lever for sites.; Media-heavy experiences -- increasing image/video usage increases need for automatic optimization.; Edge compute & CDN features -- enable low-latency transforms and on-the-fly delivery.; AI perceptual compression -- models enable higher compression while retaining perceived quality..

Key competitors include Cloudinary, imgix, Cloudflare Images / Image Resizing / Polish, TinyPNG / Tinify (Compress API), Squoosh (Google open-source) / build-time libraries (mozjpeg, guetzli).

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Reduce page weight & speed up sites with automated image compression

Executive Summary

Reduce page weight & speed up sites with automated image compression

Executive Summary

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Market Opportunity

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