Top 10 WordPress plugins

WordUp Pompey! December 2019.   Originally developed August 2012

Month: February 2022

  • Yoast SEO – 400 million downloads

    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.
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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Carousel

    I chose Simple Owl Carousel for performance on cwiccer. But it was no good. It didn’t lazy load the images.

    Total plugins: 59876

    PositionPluginTotal downloadsActiveStar RatingTested up to
    2041Carousel Slider Block GIT292268300004.86.8.2
    1TOTALS292268