Cookie Choices (for EU Cookie Law & GDPR) vs Ilmenite Cookie Consent

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

Cookie Choices (for EU Cookie Law & GDPR) is the safest pick: health A · 87 against 52 for Ilmenite Cookie Consent, led by lower removal risk.

Cookie Choices (for EU Cookie Law & GDPR)

by overclokk

Health A87

Ilmenite Cookie Consent

by Erik Bernskiold

Health D52

Active-install trajectory

Cookie Choices (for EU Cookie Law & GDPR) moved down one install band, 10K+ to 9K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Cookie Choices (for EU Cookie Law & GDPR)	Ilmenite Cookie Consent
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	9K–10K ✓	2K–3K
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-10%	Stable ✓
Overall health	A · 87 ✓	D · 52
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100 ✓	12/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	85/100	85/100
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (weighted for review count)	4.4★	4.4★ ✓
Reviews	35 ✓	9
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	96/100 ✓	55/100
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low ✓	Elevated
Last updated	3d ago ✓	2.8y ago
Downloads, last 30d	6.5K ✓	662
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.	-3%	+22%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	3.3%	4.7% ✓
Category	Privacy & Consent	Privacy & Consent

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

Release activity

Cookie Choices (for EU Cookie Law & GDPR)Ilmenite Cookie Consent

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.