Before You Are Dead Countdown vs Checkout Countdown for WooCommerce

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

Checkout Countdown for WooCommerce is the safest pick: health C · 63 against 45 for Before You Are Dead Countdown, led by lower removal risk.

Before You Are Dead Countdown

by anou

Health D45

Checkout Countdown for WooCommerce

by Morgan Hvidt

Health C63

Active-install trajectory

Before You Are Dead CountdownCheckout Countdown for WooCommerce

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	Before You Are Dead Countdown	Checkout Countdown for WooCommerce
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	1K–2K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-83%
Overall health	D · 45	C · 63 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	39/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	86/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.0★	4.4★ ✓
Reviews	1	10 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	36/100	71/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	12.0y ago	1.6y ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	35	341 ✓
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.	0%	+30%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.3%	2.5% ✓
Category	Developer Tools	eCommerce

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

Release activity

Before You Are Dead CountdownCheckout Countdown for WooCommerce

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.