WordPress SEO plugins compared: active installs, ratings and update dates
Last updated November 4, 2026
These are the figures the WordPress.org plugin directory publishes for popular SEO plugins, collected on November 4, 2026. The table lists the plugins with the most active installs, largest first. Each name links to the plugin's own directory page.
The headline numbers
- Most active installs: Yoast SEO, with 10,000,000+ active sites.
- Most downloads of all time: Yoast SEO, with 1,019,080,172 downloads.
- Average active installs: 279,170 sites per plugin.
- Average rating: 89.2 out of 100.
- Average number of reviews: 556 per plugin.
- Newest release in the data: All in One SEO, on November 4, 2026.
The averages cover every plugin collected, not only the ones in the table below.
Plugins by active installs
| Plugin | Active installs | Rating (out of 100) | Reviews | Last release | Needs | Support threads resolved |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoast SEO | 10,000,000+ | 96 | 27,820 | October 27, 2026 | WordPress 7.0+, PHP 7.4+ | 43 of 45 |
| LiteSpeed Cache | 7,000,000+ | 96 | 2,778 | November 3, 2026 | WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+ | 33 of 70 |
| Rank Math SEO | 4,000,000+ | 96 | 7,521 | November 3, 2026 | WordPress 6.7+, PHP 7.4+ | 36 of 44 |
| All in One SEO | 2,000,000+ | 94 | 5,231 | November 4, 2026 | WordPress 5.7+, PHP 7.4+ | 20 of 20 |
| XML Sitemap Generator for Google | 1,000,000+ | 96 | 2,233 | September 18, 2026 | WordPress 4.6+, PHP 5.0+ | 0 of 4 |
| SpeedyCache | 500,000+ | 88 | 30 | October 8, 2026 | WordPress 4.7+, PHP 7.0+ | None opened |
| SiteSEO | 400,000+ | 80 | 8 | September 24, 2026 | WordPress 5.0+, PHP 7.2+ | 1 of 1 |
| SEOPress | 300,000+ | 96 | 1,268 | October 29, 2026 | WordPress 6.5+, PHP 7.4+ | 5 of 6 |
| SureRank SEO | 300,000+ | 96 | 52 | October 27, 2026 | WordPress 6.7+, PHP 7.4+ | 0 of 3 |
| The SEO Framework | 200,000+ | 98 | 380 | October 14, 2026 | WordPress 7.0+, PHP 7.4.0+ | 9 of 14 |
| Cloudflare | 200,000+ | 70 | 181 | October 5, 2026 | WordPress 6.7+, PHP 7.4+ | 1 of 4 |
| YARPP | 100,000+ | 96 | 1,166 | November 11, 2024 | WordPress 3.7+, PHP 5.3+ | 0 of 1 |
| Internal Link Juicer: SEO Auto Linker for WordPress | 100,000+ | 94 | 537 | August 13, 2026 | WordPress 5.9.0+, PHP 7.1.0+ | 2 of 4 |
| Schema & Structured Data for WP & AMP | 100,000+ | 90 | 252 | November 2, 2026 | WordPress 5.3.0+, PHP 5.6.20+ | 3 of 4 |
| Custom Permalinks | 100,000+ | 82 | 116 | October 13, 2026 | WordPress 5.9+, PHP 7.4+ | 3 of 3 |
How to read these figures
Active installs are an approximate count of WordPress sites running the plugin, which the directory rounds, so a plus sign follows each figure. The rating is the average star rating as a percent of the top score, and it is only as reliable as the number of reviews behind it. The last release date is when the plugin most recently shipped an update. "Needs" is the lowest WordPress and PHP version the listing says it runs on. Support threads resolved counts forum threads marked resolved out of those opened.
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