Whereabouts: Swarm vs Whereabouts

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

Whereabouts: Swarm

by Florian Ziegler

Health D45

Whereabouts

by Florian Ziegler

Health D49

Active-install trajectory

Whereabouts: Swarm Whereabouts

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	Whereabouts: Swarm	Whereabouts
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	20–30	20–30
Install trend Change in active installs across the charted window.	0%	0%
Overall health	D · 45	D · 49 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	7/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	74/100	81/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	70/100
Rating (adjusted)	3.98★	4.22★ ✓
Reviews	1	5 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	41/100	43/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Elevated ✓	High
Last updated	5.9y ago	3.1y ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	39	46 ✓
Category	Uncategorized	Uncategorized

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

Release activity

Whereabouts: Swarm Whereabouts

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.