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WP Head Optimizer

by gr8nilay · Performance

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This plugin allow you to remove unnecessary tags, links, urls, scrips and many additional things from your WordPress header to speed up site loading t …

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
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52 Health · D
Maintenance 16/100
Rating quality 81/100
Support 70/100

52 health vs 67 average across 1,075 Performance plugins

200+

Active installs

≈250 estimated

6.3K

Total downloads

since 2017

4.22★

Rating (adjusted)

5.0★ raw · 5 reviews

+117%

65

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.

60 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 23/100
WP compatibility 68/100
Rating quality 57/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 933 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 · 1,426 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+117% vs prior 30d
1Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

65

now · peak 108

6530d 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

WP Head Optimizer · #11316 you AMP · #151 Performance Lab · #294 Optimization Detecti · #661

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.

325per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

9.2y ago

latest release · v1.0.0

1

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.0 · 9.2y ago

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 “200+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
200–300 ≈250

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

Install history · since 2020-01-12 · 1,376 observations

200Installs · 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. The recent download trend is too spiky to read.

Ratings · 5 reviews

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5★
5 4★
0 3★
0 2★
0 1★
0

Details

Version
1.0.0
Last updated
2.6y ago
Added
2017-07-06 · 9 yrs old
Requires WP
3.0.1
Tested up to
6.4.10
Requires PHP
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Recent reviews

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  1. ★★★★★ eighteen
    4.4y ago

    5 start

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  2. ★★★★★ Gordon
    6.9y ago

    Works great. Speeds up your website by removing unused scripts. Highly recommend!

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  3. ★★★★★ visionviper
    8.3y ago

    Other similar plugins like this one were just too bloated. This one has a nice clean settings page and just covers WordPress itself. It doesn’t try to clean up other plugins which I appreciate because it keeps this plugin focused.

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  4. ★★★★★ gr8nilay
    9.2y ago

    Enjoy Plugin…

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  5. ★★★★★ Dswt
    9.2y ago

    Awesome! Increase speed of page loading by removing unnecessary HTTP requests and scripts.

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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

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more · development strings

German 2%

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-06-12 300+ → 200+ down after 494 days in tier
  2. 2025-02-03 400+ → 300+ down after 9 days in tier
  3. 2025-01-25 300+ → 400+ up after 1 days in tier
  4. 2025-01-24 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-01-23 300+ → 400+ up after 4 days in tier
  6. 2025-01-19 400+ → 300+ down after 2 days in tier
  7. 2025-01-17 300+ → 400+ up after 2 days in tier
  8. 2025-01-15 400+ → 300+ down after 4 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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