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.
- The top 12 plugin order hasn’t changed since January.
- 13% of the plugins have been updated so far this year.
- There are 467 fewer plugins than last month.
- There’s 25 pages of plugins categorized as blocks. This number hasn’t changed for a long time. I suspect wordpress.org has imposed a pagination limit for some reason.
- 17 plugins have been tested with WordPress 6.0
Total downloads: 6,506,664,745
Plugins: 59457
Top 12 plugins – total downloads and active
| Position | Plugin | Total downloads |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | all-in-one-wp-migration | 70,041,262 |
| 11 | really-simple-ssl | 83,684,562 |
| 10 | all-in-one-seo-pack | 92,790,366 |
| 9 | wpforms-lite | 95,509,871 |
| 8 | google-analytics-for-wordpress | 112,338,086 |
| 7 | elementor | 160,805,422 |
| 6 | woocommerce | 170,624,682 |
| 5 | contact-form-7 | 210,319,718 |
| 4 | wordfence | 228,291,365 |
| 3 | akismet | 230,451,817 |
| 2 | jetpack | 263,932,908 |
| 1 | wordpress-seo | 397,936,801 |