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OMGF | GDPR/DSGVO Compliant, Faster Google Fonts. Easy.

by Daan van den Bergh · Performance

Also makes 2 other plugins · 311K+ installs across the portfolio →

The original Google Fonts self-hosting plugin. Automagically caches your fonts locally — no configuration (or brains) required!

Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.

Health

A 87/100

no flags

Active installs

300K+

≈390K estimated

Momentum

+193%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: Swap “cache”, “google” and “gdpr” for “google fonts”, “lighthouse” and “cls”. “cache” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “google fonts” sits at #5 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “google” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “lighthouse” sits at #5 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. “gdpr” isn't earning its slot: it only gets you to #17. “cls” sits at #6 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.

How scoring works →
87 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 92/100
Support 70/100
Security 75/100

87 health vs 69 average across 1,806 Performance plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

2.6%

of downloads still active

At least 300K of 11.6M lifetime downloads are still running, above 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.

This plugin shipped 23 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

Version
6.4.0
Last updated
2d ago
Added
2018-06-27 · 8 yrs old
Requires WP
5.9
Tested up to
7.1.4
Requires PHP
7.3

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.

83 / 100

Well optimized

Most to gain: Support resolution

Update recency 100/100

Updated 2 days ago

WP compatibility 100/100

Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer

Rating quality 92/100

4.7★ over 213 reviews, smoothed to 4.59★

Listing tuning 100/100

5 of 5 tags set · short description in place

Support resolution 0/100

0 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months

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Daily downloads

Since 5 Oct 2022 · 1,489 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+193% vs prior 30d
2.2K1 Nov 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 634.2K · peaks are release surges

468.6K1 Nov 2026

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

OMGF · #196youLocal Google Fonts · #385GDPR Cookie Complian · #183Disable and Remove G · #377

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.71 Nov 2026

Health trend

Composite health score, snapshotted daily

871 Nov 2026

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.

1.6K1 Nov 2026

Release cadence

Actively maintained
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.

23

releases in the last 12 months

2d ago

latest release · v6.4.0 · 30 Oct 2026

196

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

6.4.0 · 30 Oct 20266.3.14 · 19 Oct 20266.3.13 · 12 Oct 20266.3.12 · 30 Sep 20266.3.11 · 22 Sep 20266.3.10 · 11 Aug 20266.3.9 · 30 Jul 20266.3.8 · 25 Jun 20266.3.7 · 16 Jun 20266.3.6 · 4 Jun 20266.3.5 · 13 May 20266.3.4 · 13 Apr 20266.3.3 · 10 Apr 20266.3.2 · 31 Mar 2026

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

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

v6.3 63%
v6.0 9.7%
v5.9 9.3%
Older / other versions 18%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “300K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
300K–400K ≈390K

Crossed into this band 3 years ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 90% of the way through.

Install history since 16 Aug 2021

300K1 Nov 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ midazz1
    1.4y ago

    Support is unbelievably good, the developer replies within just hours and immediately fixes any bugs and issues you encounter. Even after a long day of work he just keeps going in the evening, won’t let go until it’s fixed. Then he adds those fixes to the next update so everyone can enjoy them. If only all customer support was this good! For this price I’m super impressed by the developer, keep it up Daan!

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  2. ★★★★★ homewise1
    1.4y ago

    I found the above issue but the developer reply me in this way: You are the third person in 5 years that had this issue. My license manager is coded to install that key once. Something in your configuration triggered that code twice. And, to be honest, I don’t know why that happens. It’s been on my TODO list to investigate this, but, like I said, it hasn’t happened enough for me to prioritize this. I regret to paid it!

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  3. ★★★★★ robertorefresh
    1.4y ago

    great plugin

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  4. ★★★★★ redsoulwarrior
    1.7y ago

    This is one of those plugins that – without question – deserves a 10 / 10 rating (or in this case 5 / 5). You turn it on. You browse your own site. You go back to the backend. The scanner will tell you it found x Google fonts. And without you having to do anything, it will automatically download them from the Google server, upload them to your own WordPress installation and the calls to the external source (which is what’s causing the GDPR problems) will be automatically blocked. While the functionality of the plugin alone is great, the UI / UX deserves special mention. The plugin authors really went above and beyond to make this as easy as possible. I’m running a web design agency and usually try to avoid plugins, but this one has saved our butts once or twice when we didn’t know what other plugin was loading the Google font from the external source and we could get rid of the issue in no time (and at no cost!). Again, one of the most obvious 5 out of 5 ratings in the entire WordPress repo. This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by redsoulwarrior.

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  5. ★★★★★ samsports
    2.0y ago

    Amazing professional help from the plugin author, even without a Pro-customer, but now I will buy the pro nevertheless!

    Read on wp.org ↗
  6. ★★★★★ likemeasap
    2.1y ago

    Great Tool and absolut amazing support

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  7. ★★★★★ Alexander Guskov
    2.3y ago

    I downloaded this plugin quite long ago but was putting off to put it in until recently got down to the site speed optimization. Current HTTP/2.0 quite insensitive in how many files to transfer and the modern network allow to ignore extra MB to transfer but it’s still very sensitive to the process of site connection. So, when you site uses font directly from google it means that user browser have to set up one connection more to one site more. 1) In my experience, although I use just 1 google font, transferring it from my site (instead of google site as it’s goes in default) increased my site speed tests unexpectedly significantly. So, the plugin is very useful!2) It’s more simple than it looks from the first glance. The best strategy is just do nothing with it’s settings except to choose your language sebsets, although “Load Early” I would tick up in default. Actually I would redesigned the settings page to avoid the first glance confusion. But if to put up with it’s design you figure out that it’s very simple !3) Happily it works very fast and steadily.4) I figured out how to optimize using browser cache for fonts and what is necessary change in plugin. Author reacted and made this changes the same day! It’s really great!Many thanks, for your work, Daan!

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  8. ★★★★★ kloeppy1976
    2.6y ago

    Hi, i had some problems after installing OMGF Pro. But Daan supportet great and problem was solved although the problem wasn’t with his plugin at all

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. — Version 6.3.8 XSS: Hardened security by adding capability and nonce checks to Save & Optimize action. 6.3.8
  2. — Version 6.3.7 Added: omgf_frontend_process_preloads action, which is used by OMGF Pro for coming up Smart Optimize improvements. 6.3.7
  3. — Version 6.3.6 Tested with WP 7.0. 6.3.6
  4. — Version 6.3.5 Fixed: Google Fonts and Performance Checker didn’t run when Disable Admin Bar Menu was enabled. 6.3.5
  5. — Version 6.3.4 Code improvements to facilitate UX in OMGF Pro. 6.3.4
  6. — Version 6.3.3 Improved: Performance Checker now also checks Cumulate Layout Shifting (CLS) caused by fonts. Some minor UI fixes. 6.3.3

Security history

via Wordfence Intelligence

All 6 disclosed vulnerabilities are patched in the current version (6.4.0). Sites still on an older version should update.

  1. 2026-10-06 CVE-2026-89417 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation Affects <= 6.3.10 Patched in 6.3.11
  2. 2026-09-29 CVE-2026-91828 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Affects <= 6.3.10 Patched in 6.3.11
  3. 2024-01-02 CVE-2023-6600 Missing Authorization Affects <= 5.7.9 Patched in 5.7.10
  4. 2021-12-01 CVE-2021-25021 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory Affects <= 4.5.11 Patched in 4.5.12
  5. 2021-08-23 CVE-2021-24639 Improper Access Control Affects <= 4.5.3 Patched in 4.5.4
  6. 2021-08-23 CVE-2021-24638 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory Affects <= 4.5.3 Patched in 4.5.4

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 21 languages, 7 at 90% or more

Dutch 100%
Dutch (Formal) 100%
Galician 100%
Italian 100%
Serbian 100%
Spanish (Spain) 100%
Spanish (Chile) 95%
French (France) 54%
German 43%
German (Austria) 40%
German (Switzerland) Informal 40%
Swedish 34%
Spanish (Venezuela) 28%
Spanish (Colombia) 27%
Spanish (Ecuador) 27%
Spanish (Mexico) 27%
English (UK) 24%
Russian 13%
Turkish 9%
Dutch (Belgium) 4%
Tibetan 2%

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

4 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 "The original Google Fonts self-hosting plugin. Automagically caches your fonts locally — no configuration (..."
  • ! Has a FAQ No FAQ section.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions No FAQ to judge.
  • ! 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 Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks and 6 more.
  • ! Headings and lists 3 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ✓ Enough to quote 3,736 characters of description.
  • ✓ Tags match the text All 5 tags appear in the text.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2023-11-11 200K+ → 300K+ up after 2 days in tier
  2. 2023-11-09 300K+ → 200K+ down after 1 days in tier
  3. 2023-11-08 200K+ → 300K+ up after 376 days in tier
  4. 2022-10-28 100K+ → 200K+ up after 57 days in tier
  5. 2022-09-01 70K+ → 100K+ up after 22 days in tier
  6. 2022-08-10 60K+ → 70K+ up after 29 days in tier
  7. 2022-07-12 50K+ → 60K+ up after 116 days in tier
  8. 2022-03-18 40K+ → 50K+ up after 344 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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OMGF | GDPR/DSGVO Compliant, Faster Google Fonts. Easy.: 300K+ active installs, 4.7★ (213 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-11-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/host-webfonts-local

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