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WP Spider Cache

by John James Jacoby · Admin & Utilities

WP Spider Cache is your friendly neighborhood caching solution for WordPress. It uses Memcached to store both objects & page output.

⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
82 Health · B
Maintenance 98/100
Rating quality 71/100
Support 70/100

82 health vs 55 average across 1,895 Admin & Utilities plugins

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.

67 / 100

Room to improve

Biggest win: WP compatibility

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 8/100
Rating quality 52/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Set "Tested up to" to WordPress 6.8; lagging the current branch costs search weight.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-26% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

26

now · peak 73

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 Spider Cache · #27371 Slim Maintenance Mod · #1806 Simple Cache · #5770 MemcacheD Is Your Fr · #5814

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.

modeled estimate
10–20 ≈16

Modeled within the band wp.org reports; tightens as we track daily.

At the current install trend, crossing 20+ in roughly 374 days.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,371 observations

Details

Version
4.1.0
Last updated
4mo ago
Added
2016-02-16 · 10 yrs on WP
Requires WP
4.7
Tested up to
4.7.33
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

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

  1. 2026-07-17 20+ → 10+ down after 20 days in band
  2. 2026-06-27 10+ → 20+ up after 43 days in band
  3. 2026-05-15 20+ → 10+ down after 45 days in band
  4. 2026-03-31 10+ → 20+ up after 263 days in band
  5. 2025-07-11 20+ → 10+ down after 762 days in band
  6. 2023-06-10 30+ → 20+ down

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WP Spider Cache: 10+ active installs, 3.5★ (2 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/wp-spider-cache