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
Total downloads: 6,031,678,363
Plugins: 59156
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | all-in-one-wp-migration | 62,023,668 |
| 11 | really-simple-ssl | 73,828,423 |
| 10 | wpforms-lite | 84,721,901 |
| 9 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 86,043,349 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 101,820,909 |
| 7 | elementor | 135,018,536 |
| 6 | woocommerce | 158,006,397 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 193,840,081 |
| 4 | wordfence | 214,836,443 |
| 3 | akismet | 221,245,143 |
| 2 | jetpack | 248,268,007 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 365,853,117 |