Gcore CDN
by gcorewpress · Performance
Gcore Plugin
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Health
D 43/100
Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈100 estimated
Momentum
-39%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: “bandwidth”, “caching” and “cdn” 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.
43 health vs 69 average across 1,806 Performance plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →1.6%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 6.1K lifetime downloads are still running, in line with its category: the median Performance plugin keeps 1.4%, across 1,104 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Performance plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
Removal-risk signals
45/100Maintenance 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 3+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
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.
Room to improve
Most to gain: Update recency
Updated 1134 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting
Tested up to WordPress 6.2.15; the current branch is 6.8
2.3★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.00★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description under 30 characters
To rank higher: Last updated 1134 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
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.
Not enough tracked days yet to call a direction. Momentum needs at least three keywords measured a week or more apart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| bandwidth your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| caching your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| cdn your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| content delivery network your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
| performance your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
1 search this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 0 listed. 1 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 5 of its tags aren't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- “bandwidth”, “caching” and “cdn” 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.
Daily downloads
Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 199 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #13,300 to #16,400, alongside the other plugins at 100+ 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 1 Nov 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
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.
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare 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.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 5 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 100.
Install history since 1 Jul 2022
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ Alex Volkov1.8y ago
Installed it on dev environment, works great. But guy please update the plugin, wordpress support version etc. Thanks
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ keysuck2.0y ago
I wish purge option is available from the plugin. Seems like the plugin development is suspended for some reason. Great CDN service, but poor execution of WordPress integration.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ sonique67843.4y ago
great idea to have a Gcore CDN plugin, but execution is poor. The url replacement doesn’t seem to work the AmaranJS and jQuery dependencies are 8+ years old, it’s a huge security risk is_admin isn’t used in the ajax/save.php, it’s another security hole blank_tpl.php should be removed PHP Fatal error: Uncaught TypeError: count(): Argument #1 ($value) must be of type Countable|array, null given in wp-content/plugins/g-core-labs-cdn/includes/front-cdn.php:27 This topic was modified 3 years, 1 month ago by sonique6784.
Read on wp.org ↗
Languages
via translate.wordpress.orgTranslated into 2 languages, 1 at 90% or more · development strings
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
3 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 Short description is 12 characters, too short to say what the plugin does.
- ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
- ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
- ! Names who it is for Never says who the plugin is for or what they use it for.
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ✓ Headings and lists 3 headings and 2 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,067 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 3 of 5 tags appear in the text; "bandwidth", "content delivery network" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-28 90+ → 100+ up after 4 days in tier
- 2026-10-24 100+ → 90+ down after 43 days in tier
- 2026-09-11 90+ → 100+ up after 10 days in tier
- 2026-09-01 80+ → 90+ up after 51 days in tier
- 2026-07-12 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2026-07-11 80+ → 90+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2026-07-10 90+ → 80+ down after 87 days in tier
- 2026-04-14 100+ → 90+ down after 9 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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W3 Total Cache 900K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A -
Breeze Cache 300K+ installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags B -
Shift8 CDN 500+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags B -
NextGenThemes jsDelivr CDN 300+ installs · 4.3★ · 3 shared tags A -
LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags B -
WP Super Cache 1M+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A
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