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wp.org search vs our merit ranking: “durability”

wp.org orders by popularity, so a plugin a host bundled onto millions of sites, or a big-brand one that's slow and mediocre, can sit at the top. Our ranking is built to answer a different question: which of these is actually worth installing. How this works →

For “durability”, we and wp.org disagree on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 1 of the top 20.

wp.org search ranks on

Install count (uncapped), the raw star average, freshness, and support. Popularity dominates, so the biggest install base usually wins regardless of how it got there.

We add

A cap on the install boost, volume-weighted ratings, and signals wp.org can't see: whether the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

merit plugin wp.org
1 EU Withdrawal and Legal Guarantee Compliance 1K+ · 5.0★ (17) wp.org #2 1 too low 2 EU Consumer Rights for WooCommerce – Guarantee Notice, GARAN Label, Withdrawal Button, Right to Repair, Omnibus Price & GPSR 200+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #1 1 too high 3 Infinite Uploads – Offload, Optimize & Organize Your Media Library 800+ · 4.4★ (20) wp.org #5 ↓1 2 too low 4 Wonder Cache 20+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #3 1 too high 5 Product FAQ for WooCommerce — Tab, Accordion & AI FAQ Generator 90+ · 4.8★ (4) wp.org #4 ↑1 1 too high 6 Arthur Smith's EU Guarantee Notice and GARAN Label 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 7 EU Warranty Ready 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #7 8 EU Legal Guarantee Notice and GARAN Durability Label for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #8 9 BuildsByLuke Product Guarantee Notice – EU Legal Warranty for WooCommerce 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #9 10 WarrantyARK — EU Guarantee Notice 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 11 Vaglio Garanzie e Riparabilità — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↓2 2 too low 12 market-it! EU Guarantee Notice for WooCommerce 20+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 ↓1 2 too low 13 MarketUp Legal Guarantee & GARAN Label for WooCommerce — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #11 ↑6 2 too high 14 Durabl.io – Indice de durabilité & réparabilité for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓1 1 too low 15 Shoplex – EU Compliance for WooCommerce — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #12 3 too high 16 ConformKit – EU Legal Guarantee Notice — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 ↓1 17 Digital Product Passport for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓1 18 Rocket Marketing Roofing Marketing Toolkit — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 19 ClaimProof – EU Guarantee & Repair Info for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 20 Lodestone Product Compliance – GPSR for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 21 R RomCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 22 market-it! EU Guarantee Notice for FluentCart — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 Octa Forms — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 24 APG Legal Guarantee Notice 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24

Merit ranking caps the install boost at 1M (wp.org leaves it uncapped), replaces the raw star average with a volume-weighted Bayesian score and a Wilson lower bound, and keeps wp.org's own freshness and compatibility decays. Method from the plugin-directory source; see Meta Trac #8298. Positions are tracked daily from the first visit to a keyword, so the small arrows show movement since tracking began.