Simple Exit Notifier
by CHRS Interactive · Uncategorized
Also makes 4 other plugins · 390+ installs across the portfolio →
Display a customizable notification when users click on external links. Perfect for warning users about leaving your website.
Try it live opens a temporary test site in your browser, which can take about 20 seconds to load. Plugins that rely on outside services or a full server may not work completely there.
Health
B 83/100
Few reviews
Active installs
100+
≈200 estimated
Momentum
+5%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Add “exit” and “escape” to your wp.org tags. You rank #4 and #19 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
83 health vs 58 average across 25,738 Uncategorized plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →4.0%
of downloads still active
At least 100 of 2.5K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median Uncategorized plugin keeps 0.6%, across 17,771 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other Uncategorized plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 3 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
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.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated 43 days ago
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
4.0★ over 3 reviews, smoothed to 4.09★ and held back under 25 reviews
4 of 5 tags set · short description in place
1 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
35
Momentum
Losing ground
-0.3
Velocity
places per keyword, 26d
12%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 26d
-0.2
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| exit | #4 | #19 | up 1 |
| link notifier your tag | #5 | #17 | down 1 |
| fast exit | #2 | #14 | 0 |
| notifier | #8 | #19 | down 1 |
| exit warning | #3 | #18 | 0 |
| external link warning your tag | #20 | #22 | down 2 |
| exit popup your tag | #23 | #24 | 0 |
| escape | #19 | #24 | 0 |
| exit overlay popup | #13 | #22 | up 3 |
| advanced exit popup | #24 | #24 | — |
| external links your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
19 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 10 listed. 9 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Add “exit” and “escape” to your wp.org tags. You rank #4 and #19 for them without listing them, close enough for a declared tag to move you up. WordPress.org counts only your first five tags, so with 4 listed these are the slots worth spending.
Daily downloads
Since 19 Dec 2024 · 682 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 375 · peaks are release surges
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.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
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.
Release cadence
Occasionally updatedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
3
releases in the last 12 months
1mo ago
latest release · v2.0.2 · 18 Sep 2026
5
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin · 80% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “100+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 11 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just under 200.
At the current install trend, crossing 200+ in roughly 330 days.
Install history since 18 Dec 2024
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.7.2
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
7 of 8 pass · checked 26 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Display a customizable notification when users click on external links. Perfect for warning users about lea..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 13 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 13 of 13 read like questions a user would type.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("perfect for", "use cases").
- ! Names what it works with Names no plugin, service or platform it works with.
- ✓ Headings and lists 4 headings and 2 lists.
- ✓ Enough to quote 1,916 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 2 of 4 tags appear in the text; "exit popup", "link notifier" do not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-20 200+ → 100+ down after 40 days in tier
- 2026-09-10 100+ → 200+ up after 402 days in tier
- 2025-08-04 90+ → 100+ up after 9 days in tier
- 2025-07-26 100+ → 90+ down after 11 days in tier
- 2025-07-15 90+ → 100+ up after 10 days in tier
- 2025-07-05 80+ → 90+ up after 3 days in tier
- 2025-07-02 90+ → 80+ down after 1 days in tier
- 2025-07-01 80+ → 90+ up after 1 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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External Links in New Window / New Tab 30K+ installs · 4.4★ · 1 shared tag A -
CartBounty – Save and recover abandoned carts for WooCommerce 10K+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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