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PageSpeed Ninja

PageSpeed Ninja has urgent issues capping its growth.

Active installs

5K+

Rating

4.5★

wp.org · 114 reviews

Downloads / 30d

958

Momentum

+41% low volume

30d vs the 30d before

Against 1810 tracked Performance plugins: health 57 vs 69 average · rating, weighted for review count, 4.5★ vs 3.8★.

What we found

1 critical 2 market context 2 strengths
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No update in 26 months

Critical

wp.org search heavily penalizes stale plugins, and users look for a recent release.

What to do: Ship a compatibility release to reset the freshness signal.

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Small download base. 958 downloads in 30 days, so a +41% move is a few installs rather than a trend.

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Light support activity. Few recent support threads, so there is no backlog to report.

✓

No open vulnerabilities recorded. No unpatched security advisory is recorded against this plugin.

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Downloads, last 2 years

From our own archive, not wp.org's current-week figure.

353 Nov 2026

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