Top 12 – 19th October 2021

Here’s the report for the Top 12 WordPress plugins by total downloads as of the 19th October 2021.

The total number of downloads from WordPress dot org recently exceeded 6 billion. That’s over 1 billion downloads in just under 10 months. Or 268 days since Five billion plugin downloads! Approximately 3.7 million downloads a day.

In that time the total number of plugins has also increased.

  • The order of the top 12 by total downloads hasn’t changed since September.
  • Google Analytics for WordPress has exceeded 100 million downloads.
  • There are now 8 plugins with more than 100M downloads.
  • 16% of the plugins have been tested with WordPress 5.8

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