Remove Site Health From Dashboard vs Performance Lab

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

Remove Site Health From Dashboard

by fullworks

Health C58

Performance Lab

by WordPress Performance Team

Health A86

Active-install trajectory

Remove Site Health From Dashboard Performance Lab

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 Site Health From Dashboard	Performance Lab
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	1K–2K	100K–200K ✓
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0% ✓	-50%
Overall health	C · 58	A · 86 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	39/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	72/100	81/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.91★	4.22★ ✓
Reviews	2	51 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	70/100	96/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	1.5y ago	3d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	164	30.0K ✓
Category	Admin & Utilities	Performance

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

Release activity

Remove Site Health From Dashboard Performance Lab

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.