[WordPress] - Wanna save $2850 on BunnyCDN Image Optimization? Read This!

I need to read on CDN's but thanks for the share OP, and your plugins shares btw, you're Festinger's worthy pupil.
Haha .. Never gona get to his status, But thanks .. I guess .. =)
I have a question do we need an image optimizer in the first place if we compress our images via a tool like tinypng before uploading them on WP? It's to compress them even more and gain even more speed? Why their add-on is so expensive?
Their ShortPixel AI serves the images in relative sizes to the users screensize, therefor smaller images for the users to download = faster speeds .. If I understand your question right. BunnyCDN Optimizer is cheap, if your having loads of visitors, then I would recommend to use that instead of my guide for that one site you have lots of traffic to, but for normal sites, go with my guide.
 
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Awesome! I'm using the $15 tinify package right now, but this looks better.
Testing is the keyword here, do a test and compare your results with my guide.
 
The problem with this is that you will spend x2 credits: first for the compression with SPIO and second for the CDN delivery with SPAI.
Nevertheless, I think now is a good idea to do it this way because they have recently switched to a model of CDN traffic credits instead of what it used to be (2 credits per serving regardless of the image size).

Personally as I mentioned before I only use SPIO credits for compression and BunnyCDN straight for the images. I've been thinking to switch at some point some of my sites to ARC.IO and see how it goes for the CDN part. I hate to be fully dependent on an adaptive mechanism for the reasons stated before (they tend to fail when it goes a little bit complex)
 
Nevertheless, I think now is a good idea to do it this way because they have recently switched to a model of CDN traffic credits instead of what it used to be (2 credits per serving regardless of the image size).
That´s why I wrote this guide, and mentioned the switch of pricing in my first post.
I use ShortPixel AI, they have recently changed their CDN delivery operator to BunnyCDN, with that move, they are only charging for bandwidth (not per optimized image) nowadays, since BunnyCDN is doing the optimization for them with the BunnyCDN Optimzer, you can use their CDN pricing if you want, but cheap as I am, I use my account with BunnyCDN instead, price on ShortPixel $0.07´ish, price on BunnyCDN $0.01 in Europe and North America per GB.
 
You could also point a Cloudflare C Name there, right? Then you would have a free CDN.
 
You could also point a Cloudflare C Name there, right? Then you would have a free CDN.
Yes, but I like BunnyCDN more, so I only use CloudFlare for DNS, as their DNS service is fast.
 
I like my own subdomain, that´s why I do it my way, otherwise I could just use ShortPixel AI the default way.

Is this because you want it to look more professional or does it have any seo / page speed benefits?
 
Is this because you want it to look more professional or does it have any seo / page speed benefits?
I just like to have it under my own domain, marginal +/- SEO effect, if any .. =)
 
I just like to have it under my own domain, marginal +/- SEO effect, if any .. =)
Cool.

I am already using bunnycdn with closte via Litespeed cache url mapping and am guessing that I will need two bunny pullzones to pull this off.

exluding image files for the cdn url in LSC thats connected to Rabbit Pull zone 1
.jpg
.svg
.webp
.etc

while using shortpixelai plugin to serve images that connected to Rabbit Pull zone 2

Right?
 
Cool.

I am already using bunnycdn with closte via Litespeed cache url mapping and am guessing that I will need two bunny pullzones to pull this off.

exluding image files for the cdn url in LSC thats connected to Rabbit Pull zone 1
.jpg
.svg
.webp
.etc

while using shortpixelai plugin to serve images that connected to Rabbit Pull zone 2

Right?
Yes, you got it right.
 
Amazing guide! Thank you.

I'm using bunnycdn but I don't think i have properly configured everything.
Any of my images URL are with my custom name "https://images.yourdomain.com/spai", is it normal? Instead the URL are "domain.b-cdn.net/image.jpg". It's not even "imgdomain.b-cdn.net".
Moreover, any of my images are in .webp and i have configured the conversion in spai.

But i do see a much lighter page size and the total of images are /4 !
So i'm really confused about what's going on. I'm pretty sure it didn't work but why my website is so much faster now?
What can i do to make it work?
 
Yes, if you followed the guide it works ..
thank you for your response. I'm not sure to understand.
My URL images are still the regular ones : https://mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/xxxx.jpg
There is no url with the custom domain name : "https://https://images.yourdomain.com/"
besides in my bunnycdn admin panel, there are only few requests made with 10.97 KB of Bandwidth Used.
I think i missed something.

I have no credits in my shortpixel account, is it the reason?
i follow your guide over and over and i don't understand why i can't make it work
 
thank you for your response. I'm not sure to understand.
My URL images are still the regular ones : https://mydomain.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/xxxx.jpg
There is no url with the custom domain name : "https://https://images.yourdomain.com/"
besides in my bunnycdn admin panel, there are only few requests made with 10.97 KB of Bandwidth Used.
I think i missed something.

I have no credits in my shortpixel account, is it the reason?
i follow your guide over and over and i don't understand why i can't make it work
You can acctually use just ShortPixel AI only now, if you want, since they started using BunnyCDN after I wrote this guide, look here. That may be much easier for you. ShortPixel now give you 750MB of FREE traffic, if you do not have any credits, after that you can buy one-time chunks of traffic from $9.99 for 50GB and up, no need for monthly payments.
 
i'm tired of manually compress and cropping every img before uploading.

how does shortpixel crop your images? if i just upload imges at whatever sizes and ratio, can it crop it to the correct/smart ratio and sizes? does the cropped img look good?

i'm thinking trying image plugin now, too many images to handle.

how does shortpixel online free compress vs tinyjpg btw?

thanks
 
i'm tired of manually compress and cropping every img before uploading.

how does shortpixel crop your images? if i just upload imges at whatever sizes and ratio, can it crop it to the correct/smart ratio and sizes? does the cropped img look good?

i'm thinking trying image plugin now, too many images to handle.

how does shortpixel online free compress vs tinyjpg btw?

thanks
You will find your answers here: https://shortpixel.com since there is no need for anyone to repeat all the info here. ShortPixel is the way to go.
 
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