About WP Analyze
The memory of the WordPress plugin ecosystem
WordPress.org shows you a plugin today — a bucket, a star rating, a rank that resets by morning. WP Analyze watches all 68,892 plugins every day and keeps the one thing the directory never does: history you can actually reason about.
A directory with no memory
The WordPress.org directory is deliberately coarse. That keeps it simple — and it throws away exactly the signals a plugin author needs to make a decision.
Installs are buckets
A plugin listed as “10,000+” could have 10,001 active sites or 19,999. The real number is never shown.
Rank resets every day
The popularity list is recomputed daily and yesterday is discarded. There’s no record of whether a plugin is climbing or sliding.
History isn’t stored
The directory is a snapshot of right now. The trend — the most useful part — simply isn’t kept anywhere.
What WP Analyze does about it
Every plugin, every day
One daily pass over the whole directory records rank, installs and ratings for all of it — so trends accumulate instead of vanishing.
Real install estimates
We turn the coarse “10,000+” buckets into sharper numbers, each carrying an honest confidence rating.
Rank & keyword trends
Directory position over time, plus where a plugin ranks in WordPress.org search for the keywords that matter to it.
Side-by-side compare
Put a plugin next to its real competitors — matched by the directory’s own tags — on the numbers that decide the race.
The method
How the estimates work
WordPress.org publishes installs in buckets — 10,000+, 20,000+, and so on — and inside each bucket it orders plugins by rank. That ordering is a ladder: if we know where a plugin sits between two bucket edges, we can estimate a real number inside the range.
Our daily snapshots are what make it sharp. Watching a plugin climb the ladder and cross bucket boundaries over time lets us calibrate the estimate instead of just guessing the middle.
And we’re upfront: every estimate carries a confidence rating. It’s strongest for mid-sized plugins with steady history, and weakest at the very top, where a single bucket spans millions. When we’re not sure, the number says so.
A plugin shown as “10,000+” isn’t a mystery between 10k and 20k — its rank places it, and its history sharpens it.
Who built this
That “+” is not a number. It’s a shrug.
WordPress.org never showed me whether a plugin was actually growing — just an install count rounded down to a bucket and a rank that resets overnight.
So I started keeping the record myself. WP Analyze is that record, opened up for everyone.
68.9K
Plugins tracked
415.6M
Combined installs
15.2B
Total downloads
63.3K
Categories
Refreshed daily from public WordPress.org data. History grows every day it runs.
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