Activate Polish

Last updated Apr 21, 2026 Images in the cache must be purged or expired before seeing any changes in Polish settings.

Caution

Do not activate Polish and image transformations simultaneously. Image transformations already apply lossy compression, which makes Polish redundant.

  1. In the Cloudflare dashboard, go to the Account home page. Go to Account home ↗
  2. Select the domain where you want to activate Polish.
  3. Select Speed > Settings > Image Optimization.
  4. Under Polish, select Lossy or Lossless from the drop-down menu. Lossy gives greater file size savings.
  5. (Optional) Select WebP. Enable this option if you want to further optimize PNG and JPEG images stored in the origin server, and serve them as WebP files to browsers that support this format.

To ensure WebP is not served from cache to a browser without WebP support, disable any WebP conversion utilities at your origin web server when using Polish.

Note

To use this feature on specific hostnames - instead of across your entire zone - use a configuration rule.

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