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ActiveLayer Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for Forms & vs Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection

Head-to-head on the signals that matter, from the public WordPress.org data.

Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection and ActiveLayer Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for Forms & are close on health (A · 90 vs A · 87). Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection has the stronger rating quality.

Active-install trajectory

ActiveLayer Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for Forms &Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection

Active installs, each indexed to 100 at the start of the window. A line above 100 is growing its install base, below 100 is shrinking.

Metric	ActiveLayer Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for Forms &	Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10K–20K	5M–6M ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	+99900% ✓	6M+ → 5M+
Overall health	A · 87	A · 90 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	85/100	93/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.4★	4.7★ ✓
Reviews	10	1,187 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	92/100	99/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	28d ago ✓	3mo ago
Downloads, last 30d	13.7K	1.3M ✓
Download momentum, last 30d vs prior 30d Dips that follow a release spike are normal: wp.org counts every update as a download, so the weeks after a release run lower.	+26%	-7%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	17% ✓	1.2%
Category	Security	Security

✓ marks the stronger plugin on each row. Rows where they're level show no marker.

Release activity

ActiveLayer Anti-Spam: Spam Protection for Forms &Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection

7-day average daily downloads. Downloads spike for about a week after each release as the install base re-downloads, so read this as release cadence, not growth.