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Floating Adsense Bar vs Ad Inserter

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

Ad Inserter is the safest pick: health A · 99 against 42 for Floating Adsense Bar, led by lower removal risk.

Active-install trajectory

Floating Adsense Bar moved down one install band, 30+ to 20+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Floating Adsense Bar	Ad Inserter
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	20–30	300K–400K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-33%	Stable ✓
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 (weighted for review count)	3.7★	4.9★ ✓
Reviews	3	2,433 ✓
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	14.1y ago	8d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	41	143.2K ✓
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%	+43%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.1%	1.5% ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Floating Adsense BarAd 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.