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

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 “warming”, we agree with wp.org 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 it throws errors on current PHP, whether the install base is organic or host-pushed, and its risk of being pulled.

Ranked above its merit

Cache Me Baby shows at wp.org #12 but places #24 on merit, a gap of 12 places. Its 10+ installs carry it up the search order; its 1.3★ average from 3 reviews, plus freshness and upkeep, place it lower on our volume-weighted scale.

merit plugin wp.org
1 Cache Warmer 1K+ · 4.8★ (19) wp.org #1 2 Warmer – Cache Warmer and Cache Preload Crawler 80+ · 4.3★ (8) wp.org #2 ↑1 3 AI Translate: Affordable Context-Aware Translation 70+ · 5.0★ (7) wp.org #4 ↓2 1 too low 4 ABCode Cache Warmer 100+ · 5.0★ (2) wp.org #3 ↑1 1 too high 5 Nginx Cache Purge Preload 200+ · 5.0★ (4) wp.org #7 ↓1 2 too low 6 Cacheability 100+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #5 1 too high 7 Codelab42 Cache Warming Connect — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #6 1 too high 8 CacheBoost Warmer – Cache Preload after Purge — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #10 2 too low 9 OneStudio Vietnam Address for WooCommerce 30+ · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #8 ↓1 1 too high 10 S Speed Pilot: Speed Up Your Website Performance — · 4.0★ (1) wp.org #9 1 too high 11 Smart Cache Purge & Warm for Cloudflare — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #13 2 too low 12 Cache Watch – Clear Cache Everywhere — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #14 2 too low 13 SuperHertz Cache Preloader — · 5.0★ (1) wp.org #11 ↑1 2 too high 14 Aruba HiSpeed Cache 100K+ · 3.0★ (10) wp.org #24 ↓2 10 too low 15 Uruz Cache Warmer — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #15 16 warmup.rocks – WordPress CDN Cache Warmer & Edge Monitor — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #16 17 B Builder Critical CSS Tools — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #17 ↓3 18 Cache Rocket — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #18 ↓3 19 URLs Most Wanted for LiteSpeed LScache — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #19 ↓2 20 eXPDesigns Speed — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #20 ↓2 21 Paradoks Markdown for AI — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #21 ↓2 22 Beky Cache Pilot 10+ · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #22 23 EWR AI Knowledge Graph for WooCommerce — · 0.0★ (0) wp.org #23 ↓3 24 Cache Me Baby 10+ · 1.3★ (3) wp.org #12 ↓1 12 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.