Performance Profiler
by Takis Bouyouris · Performance
Performance Profiler plugin silently monitors the resources consumption of your WordPress installation.
41 health vs 66 average across 748 Performance 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 10+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39, 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 3753 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 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
20
now · peak 65
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 “10+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,374 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2025-12-23 20+ → 10+ down after 2 days in tier
- 2025-12-21 10+ → 20+ up after 5 days in tier
- 2025-12-16 20+ → 10+ down after 9 days in tier
- 2025-12-07 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-12-06 20+ → 10+ down after 55 days in tier
- 2025-10-12 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
- 2025-10-11 20+ → 10+ down after 7 days in tier
- 2025-10-04 10+ → 20+ up after 1 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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AIO Performance Profiler, Monitor, Optimize, Compress & Debug 10+ installs · 3.6★ · 2 shared tags C -
LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
WP Fastest Cache – WordPress Cache Plugin 1M+ installs · 4.9★ · 1 shared tag A -
W3 Total Cache 900K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag B
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