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

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 “smartcrawl”, we agree with wp.org on the top plugin, and our order differs from theirs on 4 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 SmartCrawl SEO checker, analyzer & optimizer 10K+ · 4.8★ (171) wp.org #1 2 Forminator Forms – Contact Form, Payment Form & Custom Form Builder 600K+ · 4.8★ (2144) wp.org #2 3 SEOPress – AI SEO Plugin & On-site SEO 300K+ · 4.8★ (1268) wp.org #3 4 AMP for WP – Accelerated Mobile Pages 70K+ · 4.4★ (1319) wp.org #7 3 too low 5 Broken Link Checker 500K+ · 3.8★ (605) wp.org #5 6 Dark Mode for WP Dashboard 3K+ · 4.8★ (34) wp.org #4 2 too high 7 Alt Text AI – Automatically generate image alt text for SEO and accessibility 20K+ · 4.7★ (35) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 Product Feed for Google Shopping, Microsoft Advertising and 40+ Channels for WooCommerce Merchant 2K+ · 4.8★ (87) wp.org #9 ↓1 1 too low 9 Branda – White Label & Branding, Free Login Page Customizer 10K+ · 4.5★ (30) wp.org #10 1 too low 10 Beehive Analytics – Google Analytics Dashboard 20K+ · 4.5★ (13) wp.org #8 ↑1 2 too high 11 Schema Package – Structured Data & Rich Snippets Tool for SEO 200+ · 4.8★ (20) wp.org #14 3 too low 12 AltTextLab AI Alt Text Generator: Bulk Image Alt Text for SEO & Accessibility 100+ · 5.0★ (9) wp.org #11 1 too high 13 AI Alt Text Generator for SEO & Accessibility | AutoAlt 200+ · 5.0★ (8) wp.org #12 1 too high 14 Toolbox for Beaver Builder 600+ · 5.0★ (8) wp.org #16 2 too low 15 All in One – AI Product Manager for WooCommerce 10+ · 5.0★ (5) wp.org #17 2 too low 16 W Wext Static Publisher 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 ↑2 3 too high 17 Digigyan SEO Toolkit 30+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 ↓2 2 too high 18 Dominant Publisher — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓1 19 BASIX Auto Links 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↑2 20 Sky SEO – SEO Bulk Editor & Automation, GEO, AI internal Linking, LLM.txt, Schema & More 40+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 ↑1 2 too low 21 SEO Audit & PageSpeed Insights Scanner — White Label Agency Lead Generation — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓3 2 too low 22 INI Scout 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #24 ↓2 2 too low 23 StaticForge for Cloudflare Pages 10+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #20 ↓2 3 too high 24 WPMazic SEO Lite — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #21 ↓2 3 too high

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.