Async JavaScript

by David Clough · Performance

Async Javascript lets you add 'async' or 'defer' attribute to scripts to exclude to help increase the performance of your WordPress website.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned

52 Health · D

Maintenance 8

Rating quality 91

Support 70

Momentum 55

Active installs

70K+

Total downloads

2.1M

Rating (adjusted)

4.60★

4.7★ raw · 102 reviews

Downloads · 30d

2.1K -10%

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,375 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-10%

Trailing 30-day total · the growth curve wp.org stopped showing

Popularity rank over time · lower is better

wp.org reports only “70K+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

70K–80K ≈74K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install trend · reconstructed from 1377 daily snapshots

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