Color Mobile Browser Address Bar vs Rainbow Address Bar

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

Color Mobile Browser Address Bar

by David Webb Espiritu

Health D47

Rainbow Address Bar

by Dhruv Pandya

Health D46

Active-install trajectory

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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	Color Mobile Browser Address Bar	Rainbow Address Bar
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	2K–3K ✓	70–80
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0% ✓	-20%
Overall health	D · 47 ✓	D · 46
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	81/100 ✓	78/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	4.22★ ✓	4.12★
Reviews	5 ✓	3
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	43/100 ✓	42/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Elevated
Last updated	5.4y ago ✓	5.9y ago
Downloads · 30d	136 ✓	54
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

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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.