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Get Scalability Pro →Comparing ShortPixel Adaptive Images with Scalability Pro? This page breaks down the key differences and similarities so you can find the best fit for your WordPress or WooCommerce store.
Overview of ShortPixel Adaptive Images
ShortPixel Adaptive Images is a CDN-based image optimisation service for WordPress. It serves images at the right size and format for each visitor's device, converting them to WebP or AVIF as needed. It works via a CDN proxy layer rather than modifying files on your server, making it easy to set up without touching your media library.
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How Scalability Pro differs from ShortPixel Adaptive Images
All plugins from Super Speedy Plugins share a SQL-first architecture and an uncompromising focus on performance — and Scalability Pro is no different. Here is what sets it apart:
Upgrade your WordPress engine with Scalability Pro.
Lifts the limits on how big your WordPress website can be by adding key indexes to speed up slow queries, rewriting queries to be faster, and providing toggle-on-off functionality for WP stuff you don’t need which is slowing down your site.
ShortPixel Adaptive Images solves browser-side image delivery — ensuring each visitor receives the right image size in the best modern format. Scalability Pro works server-side, targeting the WooCommerce database queries that slow your TTFB before a single byte reaches the browser. They operate on different layers of the performance stack and are complementary rather than competing.
How to choose between ShortPixel Adaptive Images and Scalability Pro?
ShortPixel Adaptive Images is a strong choice for image delivery optimisation, but slow SQL queries cause TTFB problems that image optimisation cannot resolve. Scalability Pro is built specifically for those database bottlenecks, tested against one-million-product WooCommerce stores, and available via a free trial for staging validation.
What do others say about Scalability Pro?
Well. Very long story in short format. I set up site for my client. All products are imported via XML / JSON from different wholesale warehouses. At the moment 26k total products / 18k in stock. With over 10k products and with Divi theme site started to slow down. Divi itself is quite heavy at these level because of per post / taxonomy templates and generating static assets per post / tax. Even if these Divi side optimizations are turned off, site is quite slow. So we started testing. Keep in mind – we had frontend assets optimized so LCP / FCP etc metrics were on par with that kind of structure. Biggest problem was on backend. For Google / GTMetrix it meant TBT (total blocking time) or as I understand – time for server to return data – that was around 12 seconds. Turned off Divi "performance" we got it 3 seconds down but still over 8 seconds. So, here comes Scalabilty Pro. At first it was like – meh, i get it down to 3 seconds. Store became usable. More or less. But after wee bit tweaking and testing, combining with Perfmatters and WP Rocket – at the moment we sit TBT 10ms dektop / 10-700ms mobile. And we can use page preloading again which previously clogged down DB. So, SSP only with indexes did a miracle on a site. With other tweaks admin pages are usable and site mostly works faster than small static pages. And this all runs on shared web hosting at zone.ee server. In another hand – Dave is awesome. Very fast support on Discord – explain problem and soon you have a solution.
Dave made it right, we had express speed up in admin area. I almost gave up with woocommerce, but after this speed up we can definitely work smoothly. Thanks Dave
Recommend Scalability Pro if you have a lot of products and use wpallimport or wpallexport, improve import and export and also speed up your website.
Scalability Pro Knowledge Base
View full Knowledge Base →- Does Scalability Pro help with speeding up variations on WooCommerce products?
- How to use Scalability Pro to debug slow WP All Import speeds
- Managing your wp_options table
- Why does pagination stop working when Scalability Pro is enabled?
- Diagnosing WP All Import Performance Issues with Scalability Pro
- Object caching per-row for wp-admin lists
- Optimised XML sitemap generation speed
- Scalability Pro speeds up wp-admin and your site in general
- Scalability Pro speeds up your archive pages by speeding up WP_Query
- Scalability Pro speeds up your imports
- Specific WooCommerce Optimisations
- Speed up Slow Themes
Articles about Scalability Pro
View all articles →- New SQL enhancement for Scalability Pro to fix WooCommerce long-running query in the product-hero block
- Speeding up WooCommerce 7 (wp-admin and imports)
- More speed boosts for wp-admin and imports with Scalability Pro upgrade
- Performance boost for WooCommerce onboarding code on large sites
- December Development Update
- More speed, more updates, and a bit of a roadmap for our plugins
- Beta downloads and historic plugin versions now in your account
- Upgrades to multiple Super Speedy Plugins plugins now in beta
- Bridge theme speed improvements included in latest Scalability Pro update
- Faster Woo Widgets beta
- Speed hacks for the Newspaper theme by tagDiv: Transform your site speed
- Making the WPNotif plugin faster
- Speeding up WP All Import imports using Scalability Pro
- Performance Optimisation for various XML Sitemap plugins
- Getting Rehub Working with Super Speedy Plugins
- Rehub Theme Performance and Scalability Review
- Foundthru demo site of Super Speedy Plugins plugins
- Scaling WooCommerce to 1 million products (my talk at WordCamp Brighton)
What's new in Scalability Pro?
6.18 (15th December 2025)
- Added new WP All Export optimisation for when editing exports to speed up or avoid the wp_postmeta scan to grab all postmeta keys
- Added preview and customizer check for "Remove OR check for private items on front end" optimisation
6.17 (18th November 2025)
- Added full namespacing for plugin update checker to prevent conflicts with 3rd party plugins
- Merged stop-phone-home functionality including fixes for paypal & stripe
- Rollback to 5.94 + bug fixes added from other feature branch (but other major new features and implementation pattern removed for further testing)
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