Karailiev's sitemap vs SEO Ultimate

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

SEO Ultimate is the only plugin here with enough reviews to score.

Karailiev's sitemap

by karailiev

Health D41

SEO Ultimate

by Jeffrey L. Smith

Health D43

Active-install trajectory

Karailiev's sitemapSEO Ultimate

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	Karailiev's sitemap	SEO Ultimate
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	60–70	10K–20K ✓
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	-25% ✓	20K+ → 10K+
Overall health	—	D · 43 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	3/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	—	70/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	—	70/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	—	3.8★ ✓
Reviews	0	98 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	36/100	43/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	High
Last updated	12.0y ago	10.0y ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	84	1.1K ✓
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.	-9%	+30%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.2%	0.4% ✓
Category	SEO	SEO

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

Release activity

Karailiev's sitemapSEO Ultimate

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.