WP Rocket VS EWWW Image

I also like WP Rocket's database cleaning tool: https://wp-rocket.me/. Source: about 1 year ago

This will have a serious impact based on that kind of database. A good caching plug-in like WP Rocket should help with the overheads and speed things up. If you have server side caching like memcached or lighspeed make sure you are utilising it. Source: about 1 year ago

Purchase a license from the WP Rocket website (https://wp-rocket.me/). Source: about 1 year ago

Sounds like your colleague bought a nulled/"GPL free" copy of WP Rocket - probably not purchased from https://wp-rocket.me/. Source: about 1 year ago

One of the most beloved WordPress caching plugins is WP Rocket. They’ve managed to take something complex and make it extremely easy, yet still powerful and configurable. They have also made it easy to integrate with a CDN in just a few clicks. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

For pictures I recommend using a mix of WordPress image sizes and the ewww image plugin. How this works is you set the sizes for the images in WordPress that you want it to display for desktop, tablet and phone and the ewww plugin takes all the pictures and makes version of each size and delivers the right size picture for the device for you without you having to think about it. You can add your own sizes. This... Source: about 1 year ago

I also use EWWW for optimizing my images on Wordpress and converting images to WEBP. - Source: dev.to / about 3 years ago