Site Speed Monitor
by Evan Herman · Performance
Site Speed Monitor allows you to monitor your website load times automatically while tracking it's performance.
45 health vs 66 average across 745 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 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.29, 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 3078 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 2022-10-08 · 1,378 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
18
now · peak 49
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 2022-10-07 · 1,379 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2022-12-05 20+ → 10+ down
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
- S Speed-Checker 10+ installs · 4.0★ · 2 shared tags D
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Speed Optimizer – The All-In-One Performance-Boosting Plugin 1M+ installs · 4.2★ · 1 shared tag A -
Cloudflare 200K+ installs · 3.5★ · 1 shared tag B -
Jetpack Boost – Website Speed, Performance and Critical CSS 200K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag A -
10Web Booster – Website speed optimization, Cache & Page Speed optimizer 80K+ installs · 4.6★ · 1 shared tag B -
A2 Optimized WP – Turbocharge and secure your WordPress site 60K+ installs · 3.3★ · 1 shared tag C
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