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Termly – GDPR/CCPA Cookie Consent Banner
The cookie banner that eats your PageSpeed scores.
DecliningPoor rating
28/100
The plugin transitioned into a subscription service that damages site performance and SEO.
Active installs
~95,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 90k+
Rating
3.6★
203 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-43%
Declining fast
209 → 119 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORverified rating is 2.14★
- MINORdownloads down 43% 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 · -43% in the last year
209/day a year ago→119/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayTermly's cookie consent plugin has a deeply damaged reputation following a disruptive transition from a simple, free plugin to a third-party account-dependent subscription service, with users reporting broken functionality, hidden SEO damage, and serious performance degradation as the main caveats.
What people like
Common complaints
- −Plugin was silently transformed into a completely different product requiring a third-party Termly account, with no warning to existing users and all prior settings lost after updating.×10
- −Free tier is now severely limited by visitor quotas (e.g. 100 visitors/month threshold cited), pushing users toward a paid subscription.×4
- −Plugin modifies robots.txt without user permission to allow a scraper/bot full access to the site.×2
- −Causes severe website performance degradation, with PageSpeed Insights scores dropping from the 70s to the 37–43 range while the plugin is active.
- −Negatively impacts SEO by causing Google to index the cookie banner text as page meta descriptions.
- −Support is unresponsive, providing only automated acknowledgement replies without resolving issues.
- −Cookie banner reappears on every page refresh, failing its core function.
- −Requires periodic re-registration (approximately every six months) and lacks support for certain regions.
- −Setup process after the transition to Termly is described as convoluted and confusing.×2
Review trustReviews look organic
- 2.14★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 3.60★
- 8%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 203 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-04★★★★★Не работаетsystem4id
- 2026-03-19★★★★★Worst support, SEO mess up, for highest price !premanta
- 2024-08-06★★★★★Page speed performance gets reduced based of this Termly pluginSriram
- 2024-06-06★★★★★Yet another plugin that was Trojan Horsed by a company to get your email datajulianoe
- 2024-05-15★★★★★scamrentrating
- 2023-08-11★★★★★Enables a botrospapergirl
- 2023-06-04★★★★★Used to workksnakew
- 2023-05-05★★★★★Furious – it stopped working months agocywo1-shot
- 2023-05-05★★★★★Amends robots.txt without permission to allow a scraper full access.ablears
- 2022-07-29★★★★★I don't like itmarbs
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Termly
Top Cookies plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
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.
124
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
101
Prior 7-day baseline
77
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
125
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+22.8%
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.
17%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.20
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
26%
5★ share in analyzed sample
8%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
2.10 → 2.14★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered