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Better Uptime

by simonbetteruptime · Uncategorized

Better Uptime is a radically better infrastructure monitoring platform that calls the right person on your team if anything goes wrong.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 57 average across 9,311 Uncategorized plugins

Removal-risk signals

53/100

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 5+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.6.17.

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.

42 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 3/100
WP compatibility 25/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 1989 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-17% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

25

now · peak 80

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Better Uptime · #25497 Super Monitoring · #18875 Health Endpoint · #4226 Uptime Robot Plugin · #8304

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “20+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
20–30 ≈29

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

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,378 observations

Details

Version
1.0.3
Last updated
5.4y ago
Added
2021-02-02 · 5 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.0
Tested up to
5.6.17
Requires PHP
5.6

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-08-22 30+ → 20+ down after 4 days in band
  2. 2025-08-18 20+ → 30+ up after 5 days in band
  3. 2025-08-13 30+ → 20+ down after 178 days in band
  4. 2025-02-16 20+ → 30+ up after 23 days in band
  5. 2025-01-24 30+ → 20+ down after 83 days in band
  6. 2024-11-02 40+ → 30+ down after 4 days in band
  7. 2024-10-29 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in band
  8. 2024-10-27 40+ → 30+ down after 68 days in band

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Better Uptime: 20+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/better-uptime