WPControl – The Easiest Optimization Plugin for WordPress
by Syed Balkhi · Performance
The easiest way to improve your website's security, performance, and user experience.
45 health vs 75 average across 310 Performance plugins
Removal-risk signals
53/100Maintenance 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 4+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
- Falling behind WordPress. Tested up to WordPress 5.9.13.
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 1551 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 2022-10-06 · 1,380 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges
77
now · peak 161
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 “200+”. The real number sits in this band.
Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.
Install history · since 2022-10-05 · 1,378 observations
Details
Growth timeline
Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow
- 2025-02-13 100+ → 200+ up after 766 days in band
- 2023-01-09 90+ → 100+ up after 2 days in band
- 2023-01-07 100+ → 90+ down after 2 days in band
- 2023-01-05 90+ → 100+ up after 37 days in band
- 2022-11-29 80+ → 90+ up after 2 days in band
- 2022-11-27 90+ → 80+ down after 7 days in band
- 2022-11-20 80+ → 90+ up after 11 days in band
- 2022-11-09 70+ → 80+ up after 32 days in band
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach — closest match first
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Plugin Check (PCP) 10K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags A -
LiteSpeed Cache 7M+ installs · 4.8★ · 1 shared tag A -
Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security 5M+ installs · 4.7★ · 1 shared tag A
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