No-Bot Registration vs Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

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

No-Bot Registration

by Arnan

Health B78

Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

by CleanTalk Inc

Health A97

Active-install trajectory

No-Bot Registration Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

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	No-Bot Registration	Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	2K–3K	200K–300K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	B · 78	A · 97 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	79/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	82/100	95/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	95/100 ✓
Rating (adjusted)	4.27★	4.75★ ✓
Reviews	28	3,208 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	93/100	98/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	8mo ago	10d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	355	325.4K ✓
Category	Security	Security

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

Release activity

No-Bot Registration Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

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.