In the future FSE theme statistics for Full Site Editing themes on wordpress.org will be published under the FSE category in blocks.wp-a2z.org
FSE theme statistics – see blocks.wp-a2z.org/category/fse
Top 12 – 19th April 2022
The top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads for 19th April 2022 follows.
- Wordfence has moved up to 3rd position, Akismet is now 4th
- WP Forms Lite is approaching 100 million total downloads.
- 15% of the plugins updated this year haven’t been tested with WordPress 5.9
- 76 plugins already report they’ve been tested with WordPress 6.0… due for release on 24th of May.
Top 12 – 15th March 2022
The top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads for 15th March 2022 follows.
- UpdraftPlus has replaced All in One WP Migration in 12th place.
- 9,435 plugins have been updated to date this year.
- But only 7,861 have been tested with WordPress 5.9
- 41 have been tested with WordPress 6.0… which is due for release on May 24th.
FSE theme statistics – 12th March 2022
Charts of FSE theme statistics for 12th March 2022, including top 50 FSE themes by total download and FSE theme count to date.
Yoast SEO – 400 million downloads
The total downloads of Yoast SEO ( aka WordPress SEO ) just exceeded 400 million. That’s just under 100 million dowloads in the last 12 months.
98 million downloads in a year is an enormous figure.
- Only 8 plugins have achieved 98 million in total.
- Only 99 plugins have reached 10 million total downloads.
- Yoast SEO’s average downloads a month is over 8 million.
- Only 110 plugins of 59,503 have achieved that figure in their lifetime.
- Per day that’s just over 268 thousand.
- 1666 plugins have achieved this total in their lifetime.
- 98% of all plugins haven’t reached this figure.
FSE theme statistics – 15th Feb 2022
Charts of FSE theme statistics for 15th February 2022, including top 50 FSE themes by total download and FSE theme count to date.
Top 12 – 15th February 2022
For my second report of 2022, we see that Yoast SEO ( wordpress-seo ) is fast approaching 400 million downloads. There’ve been two releases of the plugin since my report in January. With 5 million active installs, that’s just over 2 million downloads on the release day. See Yoast SEO > Advanced View.
The vast majority of plugins don’t reach that figure in a lifetime. Only 98 plugins have reached 10 million downloads, of which 8 have topped 100 million.
Carousel
I chose Simple Owl Carousel for performance on cwiccer. But it was no good. It didn’t lazy load the images.
Total plugins: 59457
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads | Active | Star Rating | Tested up to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4759 | Carousel Slider Block for Gutenberg | 51223 | 5000 | 4.6 | 5.9 |
| 52098 | Text Carousel Block | 398 | 50 | 0 | 5.8.3 |
| 55983 | Awesome Logo Carousel Block | 224 | 30 | 0 | 5.8.3 |
| 3 | TOTALS | 51845 |
Top 12 – 23rd January 2022
My first report of top 12 plugins in 2022 comes a few days before WordPress 5.9’s release on 25th January.
- The order of the top 12 hasn’t changed.
- Over 3,000 plugins have been updated so far this year.
- Nearly 1,000 plugins report that they’re compatible with WordPress 5.9
- Apparently two plugins have been tested with WordPress 6.0!
- 48% of plugins don’t have any reviews.
Total downloads: 6,389,456,594
Plugins: 59924
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | all-in-one-wp-migration | 68,297,033 |
| 11 | really-simple-ssl | 81,616,293 |
| 10 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 91,703,234 |
| 9 | wpforms-lite | 92,935,320 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 106,646,024 |
| 7 | elementor | 155,318,863 |
| 6 | woocommerce | 167,685,479 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 206,109,604 |
| 4 | wordfence | 224,256,713 |
| 3 | akismet | 224,811,106 |
| 2 | jetpack | 258,982,074 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 390,106,053 |
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42 FSE themes – Jan 2022
There are now 42 Full Site Editing (FSE) themes published on wordpress.org. The most recently added show 0 downloads in December, and a few in January.