Google Analytics for WooCommerce vs Pixel Manager for WooCommerce

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

Pixel Manager for WooCommerce is the safest pick: health A · 93 against 74 for Google Analytics for WooCommerce, led by stronger rating quality.

Google Analytics for WooCommerce

by WooCommerce

Health B74

Pixel Manager for WooCommerce

by SweetCode

Health A93

Active-install trajectory

Pixel Manager for WooCommerce moved down one install band, 50K+ to 40K+. That's a single step across the whole window, so there's no trajectory to draw. The download trend below moves daily.

Metric	Google Analytics for WooCommerce	Pixel Manager for WooCommerce
Active installs Modeled from the public "N+" band and recent downloads.	100K–200K ✓	40K–50K
Active installs, change over ~6 months Compares the public install bands. One band step shows as the band change, not a percentage.	Stable ✓	-20%
Overall health	B · 74	A · 93 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	100/100	100/100
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	46/100	97/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	75/100 ✓
Rating (weighted for review count)	2.9★	4.9★ ✓
Reviews	119	399 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	84/100	94/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	Low	Low
Last updated	17d ago	2d ago ✓
Downloads, last 30d	167K ✓	61.8K
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.	+8%	-26%
Install conversion Active installs over lifetime downloads. Downloads include every update, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower.	0.9%	1.1% ✓
Category	eCommerce	Analytics

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

Release activity

Google Analytics for WooCommercePixel Manager for WooCommerce

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.