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Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator vs Pixeline’s Email Protector

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

Pixeline’s Email Protector is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Active-install trajectory

Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator moved down one install band, 50+ to 40+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Hikari Email & URL Obfuscator	Pixeline’s Email Protector
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	40–50	900–1K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	50+ → 40+	Stable ✓
Overall health	—	B · 84 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	76/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	70/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	4.0★ ✓
Reviews	0	8 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	35/100	91/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	16.1y ago	8d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	267	853 ✓
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.	+5%	+20%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.2%	3.8% ✓
Category	Email & Marketing	Security

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

Release activity

Hikari Email & URL ObfuscatorPixeline’s Email Protector

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.