Fast Cart – Ultralight Ajax Side Cart for WooCommerce
by WPXtension · eCommerce
Also makes 4 other plugins · 13.2K+ installs across the portfolio →
A WooCommerce Side Cart plugin to create the most attractive and effective Ajax side carts 🛒️
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Health
A 86/100
Few reviews
Active installs
200+
≈260 estimated
Momentum
-17%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “cart drawer”, “fast checkout” and “woocommerce side cart” to your wp.org tags. You rank #8, #10 and #13 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
86 health vs 71 average across 9,748 eCommerce plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.5%
of downloads still active
At least 200 of 13.4K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,142 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other eCommerce plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 7 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 63 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
5.0★ over 5 reviews, smoothed to 4.18★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
1 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
37
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.2
Velocity
places per keyword, 28d
17%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 28d
-0.4
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| ultralight | #1 | #1 | 0 |
| ajax side cart | #3 | #7 | — |
| side cart your tag | #6 | #12 | down 3 |
| sliding cart | #6 | #12 | 0 |
| cart icon your tag | #13 | #18 | — |
| quick cart your tag | #13 | #17 | 0 |
| cart drawer | #8 | #11 | down 3 |
| side | #16 | #18 | down 3 |
| woocommerce side cart | #13 | #20 | down 7 |
| fast checkout | #10 | #16 | 0 |
| cart | #18 | #23 | down 3 |
| woocommerce sliding cart | #6 | #12 | 0 |
| ajax cart your tag | #17 | #21 | down 10 |
| floating cart | #14 | #18 | down 4 |
| woocommerce cart fragments | #8 | #15 | down 1 |
| cart abandonment | #14 | #19 | down 4 |
| share cart | #16 | #20 | down 1 |
| a11y | #16 | #13 | down 2 |
| woocommerce ajax cart | #18 | #23 | down 4 |
| empty cart | #19 | #19 | down 1 |
87 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 20 listed. 55 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words).
What to do about it
- Add “cart drawer”, “fast checkout” and “woocommerce side cart” to your wp.org tags. You rank #8, #10 and #13 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
- Slipping on “ajax cart”. Down 10 places since 2026-09-26, now #17. Check what shipped around then, and what moved above you.
- One page off on “cart icon”. #13 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
- One page off on “quick cart”. #13 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 19 Feb 2023 · 1,350 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 675 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #11,300 to #12,900, alongside the other plugins at 200+ 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.
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.
Release cadence
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
7
releases in the last 12 months
2mo ago
latest release · v1.2.5 · 29 Aug 2026
29
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 82% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 5 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 58% of the way through.
Install history since 18 Feb 2023
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ iferganalex10mo ago
Awesome plugin, works like a charm. I was in need of some customisation with the MOBILE rendering of the side cart Reza found quickly the workaround and correct the bug, I’m very grateful for the prompt & PRO assistance!! Keep up the good work guys!!
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ davidmazza2110mo ago
Very Happy with this plugin : light, nice and great level of support . I wanted to fine tune some elements not in the native way and the support helped me to achieve it ! 6 stars
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Atom Adam12mo ago
I’ve used other side cart plugins for several years, but was looking for something more lightweight (my last one loaded about 98kb of css/js on every page). I was super happy to find Fast Cart, as it works perfectly and is far less bloated (only 16.2kb of css/js loaded!). Great plugin.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ udoe12mo ago
I really love this “site cart plugin”, as it offers the user a nice and helpful overview of the shopping card, each time you add a product – without having to open the shopping card site. Since there was an issue with relatively long product descriptions, my support request was handled and solved very quickly! Once again thanks for this plugin and for your awesome support 🙂
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ Thomas Sheldon3.7y ago
Adding items to the cart without reloading a specific page is advantageous. Hopefully, this cart plugin will help my store deliver a better customer experience.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more
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 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "A WooCommerce Side Cart plugin to create the most attractive and effective Ajax side carts 🛒️"
- ✓ Has a FAQ 4 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 4 of 4 read like questions a user would type.
- ! Names who it is for One audience phrase ("if you want"); say who the plugin is for and what they use it for.
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce.
- ! Headings and lists 2 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
- ✓ Enough to quote 5,375 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 4 tags appear in the text; "quick cart" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-06-01 300+ → 200+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-05-29 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-05-28 300+ → 200+ down after 9 days in tier
- 2026-05-19 200+ → 300+ up after 2 days in tier
- 2026-05-17 300+ → 200+ down after 16 days in tier
- 2026-05-01 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-04-30 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2026-04-28 200+ → 300+ up after 1 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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ThemeHunk – Side Cart, Ajax Cart & Menu Cart for WooCommerce 5K+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags A -
Mini Cart for WooCommerce – Side Cart & Fast Checkout 600+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
QuantWP – Side Cart for WooCommerce 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
Portus Cart for WooCommerce — installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
CartLane – Side Cart for WooCommerce — installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags -
DeftCoders – Cartly Ajax Side Cart for WooCommerce — installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags
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