IL Privacy & Cookie Consent vs Cookie Compliance for WordPress

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

IL Privacy & Cookie Consent is the safest pick: health B · 83 against 78 for Cookie Compliance for WordPress, led by stronger support.

IL Privacy & Cookie Consent

by Yossi Haephrati

Health B83

Cookie Compliance for WordPress

by Humanityco

Health B78

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	IL Privacy & Cookie Consent	Cookie Compliance for WordPress
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	200–300	800K–900K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	+1900% ✓	900K+ → 800K+
Overall health	B · 83 ✓	B · 78
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	97/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	76/100	96/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100 ✓	18/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.1★	4.8★ ✓
Reviews	2	3,027 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	89/100 ✓	84/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	4mo ago	3d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	197	1.8M ✓
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.	+4%	+118%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	11% ✓	1.8%
Category	Privacy & Consent	Privacy & Consent

✓ 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.