Remove jQuery from Theme vs Animate It!

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

Remove jQuery from Theme

by Marc Tönsing

Health D45

Animate It!

by eleopard

Health B81

Active-install trajectory

Remove jQuery from Theme Animate It!

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	Remove jQuery from Theme	Animate It!
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	100–200	20K–30K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	-50%	-33% ✓
Overall health	D · 45	B · 81 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	74/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	96/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.98★	4.80★ ✓
Reviews	1	127 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	31/100	93/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated	Low ✓
Last updated	5.5y ago	9mo ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	54	1.7K ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Remove jQuery from Theme Animate It!

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.