Easy Social Signal Counter vs Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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

Easy Social Signal Counter

by Jayasri Nagrale

Health D45

Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

by Syed Balkhi

Health A96

Active-install trajectory

Easy Social Signal Counter Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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	Easy Social Signal Counter	Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	10–20	1M–2M ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	D · 45	A · 96 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	76/100	98/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	86/100 ✓
Rating (adjusted)	4.06★	4.89★ ✓
Reviews	2	4,353 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	36/100	97/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	11.7y ago	16d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	59	574.7K ✓
Category	Social	Social

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

Release activity

Easy Social Signal Counter Smash Balloon Social Photo Feed

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.