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HotJar

by owencutajar · Analytics

Also makes 1 other plugin · 110+ installs across the portfolio →

Plugin to help you integrate HotJar code into your website.

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⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

Health

D 45/100

Stale · Likely abandoned · Few reviews

Active installs

100+

≈150 estimated

Momentum

-12%

downloads vs prior 30d

Biggest opportunity: “analytics”, “feedback” and “hotjar” 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.

How scoring works →
45 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 74/100
Support 70/100

45 health vs 67 average across 1,826 Analytics plugins

Install conversion

How it's measured →

1.6%

of downloads still active

At least 100 of 6.4K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Analytics plugin keeps 1.2%, across 1,007 plugins.

Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Analytics plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35, well behind 6.8.

Details

Version
0.2
Last updated
8.9y ago
Added
2017-12-20 · 8 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
4.9.35
Requires PHP
5.2.4

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.

34 / 100

Under-optimized

Most to gain: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

Updated 3237 days ago, past the ~180 days where wp.org starts discounting

WP compatibility 10/100

Tested up to WordPress 4.9.35; the current branch is 6.8

Rating quality 51/100

5.0★ over 1 review, smoothed to 4.12★ and held back under 25 reviews

Listing tuning 84/100

3 of 5 tags set · short description in place

To rank higher: Last updated 3237 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 5 Oct 2022 · 1,487 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-12% vs prior 30d
230 Oct 2026

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peak 160 · peaks are release surges

10431 Oct 2026

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 21 Oct 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.

1K31 Oct 2026

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share 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.

v0.2 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈150

Crossed into this band 22 months ago; a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, which places it about 50% of the way through.

Install history since 4 Oct 2022

10031 Oct 2026

Recent reviews

All reviews on wp.org ↗
  1. ★★★★★ Weborithm
    8.9y ago

    Great work, as always.

    Read on wp.org ↗

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

✓ Low memory footprint
✓ Low page-speed impact
✕ Runs on latest PHP + WP
✕ No PHP errors
✓ No JS errors
✓ Activates cleanly
✓ No resource errors
✓ No external HTTP errors
✓ Optimized database use
✕ Frequently updated

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

2 of 8 pass · checked 31 Oct 2026

Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.

  • ✓ Says what it does "Plugin to help you integrate HotJar code into your website."
  • ! Has a FAQ Only 2 questions in the FAQ; 3 or more gives an assistant something to match.
  • ! FAQ asks real questions 1 of 2 FAQ entries are headings, not questions ("Installation Instructions").
  • ! 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 0 headings and 0 lists; assistants quote headed sections and bullet lists, not paragraphs.
  • ! Enough to quote 518 characters of description; under 1,000 there is little to quote.
  • ✓ Tags match the text 2 of 3 tags appear in the text; "analytics" does not.

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-01-21 200+ → 100+ down after 9 days in tier
  2. 2025-01-12 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-01-11 200+ → 100+ down after 386 days in tier
  4. 2023-12-22 300+ → 200+ down after 2 days in tier
  5. 2023-12-20 200+ → 300+ up after 4 days in tier
  6. 2023-12-16 300+ → 200+ down after 61 days in tier
  7. 2023-10-16 200+ → 300+ up after 76 days in tier
  8. 2023-08-01 300+ → 200+ down after 3 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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HotJar: 100+ active installs, 5.0★ (1 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-10-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/oc-hotjar

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