Lightweight and Responsive Youtube Embed
by wpszaki · Media
Make your embedded Youtube videos responsive & lightweight with this plugin. Reduce the loading time of your site and increase the user experience …
43 health vs 62 average across 1,172 Media plugins
High removal-risk signals
63/100Maintenance 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 7+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.29, well behind 6.8.
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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2881 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.
Get the full rank-higher report →Daily downloads
Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
62
now · peak 158
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
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 “30+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,380 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-10 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-05-09 30+ → 40+ up after 9 days in band
- 2026-04-30 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in band
- 2026-04-29 30+ → 40+ up after 36 days in band
- 2026-03-24 40+ → 30+ down after 49 days in band
- 2026-02-03 30+ → 40+ up after 4 days in band
- 2026-01-30 40+ → 30+ down after 294 days in band
- 2025-04-11 50+ → 40+ down after 18 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Simple YouTube Embed 5K+ installs · 4.1★ · 4 shared tags B - R Responsive video embed 900+ installs · 4.2★ · 4 shared tags B
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Embeds for YouTube 10K+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags C -
Embed YouTube Block – Fast Loading Videos, Shorts & Playlists 6K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags A -
Simple YouTube Responsive 3K+ installs · 4.5★ · 3 shared tags B - R Responsive Video Embeds 2K+ installs · 3.9★ · 3 shared tags D
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