Floating Adsense Bar vs Ad Inserter

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

Floating Adsense Bar

by Santosh Padire

Health D42

Ad Inserter

by Spacetime

Health A99

Active-install trajectory

Floating Adsense Bar Ad Inserter

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	Floating Adsense Bar	Ad Inserter
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	20–30	300K–400K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-33%	0% ✓
Overall health	D · 42	A · 99 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	66/100	98/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	100/100 ✓
Rating (adjusted)	3.65★	4.92★ ✓
Reviews	3	2,428 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	36/100	100/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	13.9y ago	1mo ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	26	68.8K ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Floating Adsense Bar Ad Inserter

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.