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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The total downloads of Yoast SEO ( aka WordPress SEO ) just exceeded 300 million. That’s over 70 million dowloads in the last 12 months.

• 70 million downloads in a year is an enormous figure.
  • Only 10 plugins have achieved 70 million in total.
• Yoast SEO’s average downloads a month is 5.8 million.
  • Only 111 plugins of 58,434 have achieved that figure in their lifetime .
• Per day that’s just over 190 thousand.
  • 1885 plugins have achieved this total in their lifetime.
  • 95% of all plugins haven’t reached this figure.

Here’s last year.

It’s pretty amazing really. Here are the last few days. Note the big spike today – version 15.8 was released 11 hours ago. Downloads so far today are 1.2 million.