Bunny CDN vs External Images Plugin
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Get External Images →Comparing Bunny CDN with External Images? This page breaks down the key differences and similarities so you can find the best fit for your WordPress or WooCommerce store.
Overview of Bunny CDN
Bunny CDN is a content delivery network that distributes your static assets — images, CSS, JavaScript, and video — across a global network of edge servers. For WordPress, it is typically integrated via a plugin that rewrites asset URLs to point to the CDN. It offers competitive pricing and a strong global network.
How External Images differs from Bunny CDN
All plugins from Super Speedy Plugins share a SQL-first architecture and an uncompromising focus on performance — and External Images is no different. Here is what sets it apart:
If a supplier, merchant or CDN already hosts your images, downloading copies into WordPress wastes import time, CPU and disk. External Images lets WooCommerce use those remote URLs without creating local attachments or thumbnails.
Bunny CDN delivers your existing media files faster by serving them from edge nodes closer to your visitors — but your images are still stored and managed in your WordPress media library, consuming server disk space. External Images stores all image references as external URLs without downloading or hosting the files on your server at all, eliminating disk usage and media library bloat while keeping WooCommerce product images accessible.
How to choose between Bunny CDN and External Images?
Bunny CDN is an excellent choice for accelerating asset delivery, but if disk space, media library size, or the overhead of hosting thousands of product images on your own server is the underlying problem, External Images solves it at the source. SQL-first architecture, tested against one-million-product catalogues, with a free trial available.
What do others say about External Images?
Since HTTPS became standart I was having trouble compiling with https rules on my woocommerce site, since my images are hosted on a non-https server. With External images my non-https images become https via proxy on my server. Altough it did not work immediately as I install it due to a problem on my word press theme, great support from Dave and his team kicked in and solved the problem on the theme. Great Plugin, Great Team, Great Support… Many thanks!
Some time ago I bought this plugin and it always worked smoothly. Recently there were some WordPress updates and my website broke (probably because of the Gutenberg editor addition). I contacted the support/developer (Dave) and in few days my problem was completely solved! The plugin is now even better than before and I'm sure it will keep improving. To sum up, I definitely recommend this External Images plugin, by far the best in the market!
I was looking to make my wordpress site faster. I ended buying/using scalability pro. Excellent product, amazing performance for my site. After importing thousands of products my server lagged due to the enormous amount of images that i imported. External images to the rescue!!!! With the external images i keep my server clean and my site super fast!!! No more unnecessary thumbnails. By the way support from Dave is first class!! Top notch developer!! Top notch support! Highly recommended plugin!!! AAA Thanks Dave for the awesome plugins and support!!!!
External Images Knowledge Base
View full Knowledge Base →- External Images demo with Houzez Theme
- External Images demo with RealHomesPro Theme
- External Images demo with WPResidence theme
- Compatibility and Integrations
- Houzez Theme Gallery Display Options
- Photon image resizing
- The SSL Image Proxy
- WooCommerce Advanced Bulk Edit Compatibility
- WooCommerce Variation and Gallery Images
- Adding external images to posts or custom post types
- Changing external images for WooCommerce products manually
- Datafeedr Integration
- Guide to third party storage
- How to alter import jobs to import external images
- How to Delete All External Images from Your Database
- Installation & Activation
Articles about External Images
View all articles →- December Development Update
- More speed, more updates, and a bit of a roadmap for our plugins
- More beta updates available
- Dev Diary #7
- Dev Diary #6
- Dev Diary #4
- Dev Diary #2
- External Images 1.97 released
- External Images upgrade released – gallery support added
- External Images upgrade released
What's new in External Images?
3.43.11 (20th October 2026)
- Faster first page views of products sharing images, because unchanged image attachment details are no longer rewritten
3.43.10 (20th October 2026)
- Fixed first page views of products that share an image with other products being slow behind nginx-helper and other cache purgers, because unchanged image attachments are no longer re-saved
- Tested up to WordPress 7.1
3.43.9 (22nd August 2026)
- Updated super-speedy-settings to the latest version
3.43.8 (21st August 2026)
- Hardened the shared settings module and removed its Jetpack Autoloader dependency
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