Analysis Shows Yoast and Redirection Top Rankings for Most Popular WordPress Plugins

Kinsta analyzed 140,000 websites to identify the plugins most favored for performance and reliability. The findings revealed that publishers prioritize good performance, seamless user experience, and effective SEO.

Schema.org is the tenth most used plugin among users (1.75%) and it can be because it provides structured data types than most plugins and also has capability to add custom structured data automatically.

XML Sitemap Generator for Google Plugin is used by 2.17% of websites analyzed because its basic version has a similar functionality as WordPress. With 3.27% websites using it, Broken Line Checker plugin is used to check broken links and 404 errors with its cloud based scanner. 4.81% of websites hosted by Kinsta also use SEOPress, making it the seventh most used plugin by more than 300k installations. It boasts search engine optimization plugin which can be helpful in schema implementation, content optimization and redirection management.

All in one SEO is the sixth most popular plugin with 5.11% websites using it with more than 3 million installations. With 11.62% websites using it, Imagify is the fifth most used image optimizer plugin which is used to minimize file size so the website doesn't take too much time to load. As there are not many image optimizer plugins, most of the websites use Imagify on WordPress.

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Rank Math is the fourth most used plugin on WordPress websites hosted by Kinsta. It has more than 3 million installations all over the world with 18.32% websites using it. WP Rocket comes at third with 19.10% sites using it for performance optimization. Website optimization is very important for publishers so the popularity of WP Rocket isn't surprising. It can minimize the file, optimize the database and improve loading time. 

The second most used plugin is Redirection with 26.85% of sites and blogs using it. It does a lot more than link redirecting, and has 404 error reporting as well as setting security headers.

Coming at number one spot with most users is Yoast (57.95%) installed in more than 10 million websites. It seems like Yoast is the most popular and trusted plugin according to 140,000 websites that were studied.

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by Arooj Ahmed via Digital Information World