WP Spam Question Filter vs Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

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

WP Spam Question Filter

by Otto Kekäläinen

Health D47

Spam protection, Honeypot, Anti-Spam by CleanTalk

by CleanTalk Inc

Health A97

Active-install trajectory

WP Spam Question Filter 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	WP Spam Question Filter	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.	+100% ✓	0%
Overall health	D · 47	A · 97 ✓
Maintenance How recently the plugin was updated.	3/100	100/100 ✓
Rating quality Volume-adjusted review quality.	80/100	95/100 ✓
Support Share of forum threads marked resolved.	70/100	95/100 ✓
Rating (adjusted)	4.17★	4.75★ ✓
Reviews	4	3,208 ✓
Ranking optimization How well the listing is tuned to rank on wp.org.	39/100	98/100 ✓
Removal risk Maintenance signals that precede a wp.org closure. Not an official status.	High	Low ✓
Last updated	6.1y ago	10d ago ✓
Downloads · 30d	169	325.4K ✓
Category	Search	Security

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

Release activity

WP Spam Question Filter 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.