> ## Knowledge Base Index
> Fetch the complete knowledge base index at: https://help.wpcompress.com/sitemap.xml
> Use this file to discover available pages before exploring further.
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# How Does Live Compression Work?


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# How Does Live Compression Work?

**Using Live Compression Mode**, your images are securely backed up and optimized in the compression cloud, then only the smaller, light-weight images are served to your viewers from our exclusive hybrid CDN network.

Live mode automatically optimizes your images and scripts in real-time based on the incoming visitors device, browser, screen resolution, location on page and geo-location to help you get the fastest load times around!

It includes adaptive images, WebP conversion, Retina support, lazy loading and more served over a lightning-fast CDN!

Live Requests are based on optimized requests processed and served through the multilayer CDN which resets each month. There is no hard cap on bandwidth.​

The beauty of this is that credits are only used for optimized requests that hit our API, if a user visits multiple pages there’s a good chance some assets are browser cached!

We also offer [local image compression](/en-us/article/how-does-local-compression-work-1glfrkj/), and every month your account gets allocations for both :)


|| You may toggle additional settings as needed such as Image Quality, Adaptive Images, WebP, LazyLoad for improved speed, savings and user experience!


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