MediaElement Google Analytics & Piwik Event Tracking
by Marc Tönsing · Analytics
This plugins fires Google Analytics & Piwik events for the native Wordpress MediaElement video and audio player.
45 health vs 63 average across 633 Analytics plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 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.
Under-optimized
Biggest win: Update recency
To rank higher: Last updated 2008 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
26
now · peak 86
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 “80+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,371 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2026-05-08 70+ → 80+ up after 7 days in band
- 2026-05-01 80+ → 70+ down after 107 days in band
- 2026-01-14 90+ → 80+ down after 6 days in band
- 2026-01-08 80+ → 90+ up after 1 days in band
- 2026-01-07 90+ → 80+ down after 12 days in band
- 2025-12-26 80+ → 90+ up after 39 days in band
- 2025-11-17 90+ → 80+ down after 7 days in band
- 2025-11-10 80+ → 90+ up after 29 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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GA Google Analytics – Connect Google Analytics to WordPress 400K+ installs · 4.8★ · 2 shared tags A -
Connect Matomo – Analytics Dashboard for WordPress 60K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A -
Event Tracking for Gravity Forms 20K+ installs · 4.7★ · 2 shared tags C -
Simple Universal Google Analytics 4K+ installs · 4.2★ · 2 shared tags D -
Better Google Analytics 2K+ installs · 4.1★ · 2 shared tags D -
Global Site Tag Tracking 1K+ installs · 3.8★ · 2 shared tags C
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