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ACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO
Connects ACF to Yoast but might crash your server.
HealthyGrowing
72/100
It bridges a specific SEO gap but suffers from broken features and heavy server load.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.2★
34 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+21%
Growing
382 → 462 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +21% in the last year
382/day a year ago→462/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayACF Content Analysis for Yoast SEO is a niche integration plugin that once worked well out of the box, but has accumulated serious unresolved issues around performance and compatibility that have left many users frustrated.
What people like
- +Enables Yoast SEO analysis to pick up ACF field content, solving a real gap for ACF/Yoast users×4
- +Easy to set up with no configuration needed for basic use×2
Common complaints
- −Plugin stopped working after a WordPress update, with word count stuck at 0 and content length/outbound links not detected (since 5.5)×3
- −ACF image fields cause severe server CPU spikes, which can result in hosting account suspension×2
- −A documented performance/load issue with image fields (GitHub issue #120) has been known since at least 2017 with no confirmed fix×2
- −Documented feature (custom fields inclusion box in Search Appearance tab) no longer present in the plugin, with no explanation or updated docs
- −Readability analysis not activated for certain field types such as Text Box
- −Support is unresponsive, and Yoast only investigates issues for premium subscribers×2
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.10★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.20★
- 9%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 100% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-01-102025-10-072026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 34 total
Latest reviews · 34 analyzed
- 2025-01-09★★★★★Should be integrated into YoastToine Rademacher
- 2023-04-14★★★★★the plugin does not workizzik fayzak
- 2022-09-01★★★★★Ability to add custom fields no longer workingjonoces
- 2022-04-24★★★★★Very satisfiedumizen40
- 2020-09-24★★★★★Since Update 5.5.1, and Yoast 14.9 – No longer works!squire2k
- 2020-09-17★★★★★Was perfect, WP update broke it with no bug fixwebtailor
- 2020-06-05★★★★★Readability not activatedLudovic Dind
- 2020-05-14★★★★★Excelente Plugin!Aurélio Campos1-shot
- 2019-07-17★★★★★Awesome plugin!olivetune
- 2018-07-11★★★★★Works like a charmAritz
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
931
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
501
Prior 7-day baseline
529
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,065
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,027
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+85.8%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
100%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
4.12
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
74%
5★ share in analyzed sample
9%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.18 → 4.10★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered