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bunny.net – WordPress CDN Plugin
Great CDN service meets a very shaky WordPress plugin.
DecliningPoor rating
44/100
The CDN service is excellent but the plugin causes data loss and broken layouts.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
3.0★
20 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-35%
Declining fast
216 → 140 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 2.80★
- MINORdownloads down 35% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -35% in the last year
216/day a year ago→140/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayBunny.net’s WordPress CDN plugin is praised for its speed, reliability, and cost-effectiveness on many sites, but users frequently report functional failures, lack of support, and compatibility issues.
What people like
- +Deployed on many client sites and multiple websites×2
- +Works reliably and is stable×2
- +Compatible with WP Rocket and fills its gaps
- +Improves site speed, faster than some competitors
- +Cheaper than comparable CDN plans
- +Runs on the latest WordPress and PHP versions
- +Exemplary service and support from the provider
Common complaints
- −Only available as a paid plugin, no free option
- −Support is unavailable or unresponsive
- −Causes performance degradation, increased server load and 529 errors
- −Fails to offload images and can delete or remove them, leading to data loss×2
- −Optimizer uses larger images, provides poor compression, and is considered overpriced
- −Inconsistent API/offloader behavior; cannot reset plugin; wrong pull zone cannot be fixed
- −Requires PHP 8, making it incompatible with sites still on PHP 7
- −Not updated for WordPress 6.2 compatibility
- −Leaves propagated URLs in source code after removal, breaking site layout
Review trustReviews look organic
- 2.80★Verified rating — drops from 3.00★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 5%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-04-152025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 20 total
Latest reviews · 21 analyzed
- 2026-06-04★★★★★Completely Paid pluginpaknejad
- 2026-03-18★★★★★Causes problems, no supportrb285
- 2026-02-05★★★★★it works well but sometimes external services hit themExcess Pro Net
- 2025-12-09★★★★★dosn't workfoundr
- 2025-11-17★★★★★Doesn't workTorgut
- 2025-10-14★★★★★Perfect CDN and quick SupportTeamfairsuchen
- 2025-09-05★★★★★Optimizer does not work properlyscottrobins
- 2025-05-06★★★★★Effortless CDN Plugin Integrationdsl504t
- 2025-03-16★★★★★Too many unknown issues with the pluginshariful002
- 2025-02-16★★★★★Bunny is a great CDNzenixnet
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to bunny.net
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the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
114
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
133
Prior 7-day baseline
110
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
344
Mean release-day peak (30d)
114
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-14.3%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.91
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
43%
5★ share in analyzed sample
5%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
+33%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
2.90 → 2.80★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered