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Preloader Awesome – Page Loading Animation with Spinner & Gif

by themesawesome · Uncategorized

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Preloader Awesome help You to create page loading animation WordPress with spinner or You can upload Your own GIF.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
50 Health · D
Maintenance 22/100
Rating quality 67/100
Support 70/100

50 health vs 56 average across 16,376 Uncategorized plugins

1K+

Active installs

≈1.9K estimated

29.4K

Total downloads

since 2020

3.68★

Rating (adjusted)

1.0★ raw · 1 reviews

+29%

255

Downloads · 30d

category median +17%

Removal-risk signals

28/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Not actively maintained. No update in about 2 years.

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.

63 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 31/100
WP compatibility 77/100
Rating quality 50/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 795 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,424 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+29% vs prior 30d
11Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

255

now · peak 772

25430d downloads · Aug 26

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

Preloader Awesome · #6106 you Preloader · #1431 Safelayout Cute Prel · #1911 WP Page Loading · #7796

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.

254per 1k installs · Aug 26

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.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “1K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
1K–2K ≈1.9K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-06-25 · 1,422 observations

1KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Ratings · 1 reviews

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5★
0 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
1

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
2.2y ago
Added
2020-10-12 · 5 yrs old
Requires WP
5.4
Tested up to
6.5.10
Requires PHP
5.6
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ Khaliel
    4.5y ago

    Sadly, nothing at all happens on my website. The plugin is activated and configured, but there is nothing at all. No animation or whatsoever when the pages load. Plus the plugin promises “ten default CSS loaders plus 14 transition styles” and you end up with 4 default CSS loades and 3 transition styles.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.4.8 · WP 5.5.3

✓ 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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 1 at 90% or more · development strings

Ukrainian 100%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2025-08-23 2K+ → 1K+ down after 424 days in tier
  2. 2024-06-25 1K+ → 2K+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2024-06-24 2K+ → 1K+ down after 35 days in tier
  4. 2024-05-20 1K+ → 2K+ up after 2 days in tier
  5. 2024-05-18 2K+ → 1K+ down after 8 days in tier
  6. 2024-05-10 1K+ → 2K+ up after 10 days in tier
  7. 2024-04-30 2K+ → 1K+ down after 2 days in tier
  8. 2024-04-28 1K+ → 2K+ up after 13 days in tier

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