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Average Mobile Detect

by average.technology · Uncategorized

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Redirects mobile traffic to mobile site, allows visitors to opt for desktop site, provides shortcodes and widget to generate links to mobile site

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 45/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

10+

≈15 estimated

Momentum

-100%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “mobile”, “mobile detect” and “mobile detection” aren't earning a slot. You list them, but you're not in the first 24 results for those searches. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so free the slot for a search you can win.

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45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 58 average across 25,735 Uncategorized plugins

10+

Active installs

≈15 estimated

6.1K

Total downloads

since 2014 · 0.2% still active

4.0/5

Rating

5.0 on wp.org · 1 reviews

-100%

44

Downloads · 30d

category median +8%

Install conversion

How it's measured →

0.2%

of downloads still active

At least 10 of 6.1K lifetime downloads are still running, below its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,765 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 11+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42, well behind 6.8.

Ratings · 1 reviews

Read on wp.org ↗
5★
1 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.2
Last updated
11.8y ago
Added
2014-08-29 · 12 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
4.1.42
Requires PHP
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Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

36 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 4307 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 4/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.1.42; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 51/100

5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 4307 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-100% vs prior 30d
030 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 61 · peaks are release surges

3530 Oct 2026

Directory rank

Ranked about #30,100 to #45,000, alongside the other plugins at 10+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.

Update activity

Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.

Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

11.8y ago

latest release · v1.2 · 15 Jan 2015

3

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.2 · 15 Jan 20151.1 · 4 Dec 20141.0 · 16 Oct 2014

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “10+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
10–20 ≈15

Crossed into this band 20 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 13 Sep 2016

1030 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Joe Rhoney
    12.2y ago

    Maybe there’s a plugin out there already that does exactly what this one does… but I couldn’t find it. So I built it. I’d been using it, enhancing it and fine-tuning it for about a year now, and has proven to be the most reliable mobile redirecting plugin available for me. I hope the same goes for you. Enjoy!

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3.2

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✓ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✓ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

AI assistants

How it's measured →

Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.

Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.

Readme readiness

6 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Redirects mobile traffic to mobile site, allows visitors to opt for desktop site, provides shortcodes and w..."
  • ✓ Has a FAQ 7 questions in the FAQ.
  • ✓ FAQ asks real questions 7 of 7 read like questions a user would type.
  • ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you have"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
  • ✓ Names what it works with Mentions PayPal.
  • ! Headings and lists 1 heading and 2 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 3,017 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "mobile detection", "mobile site redirect" do not.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2025-02-27 20+ → 10+ down after 2 days in tier
  2. 2025-02-25 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in tier
  3. 2025-02-23 20+ → 10+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2025-02-22 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-02-21 20+ → 10+ down after 1 days in tier
  6. 2025-02-20 10+ → 20+ up after 2 days in tier
  7. 2025-02-18 20+ → 10+ down after 11 days in tier
  8. 2025-02-07 10+ → 20+ up after 3 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

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