74
Loading Page with Loading Screen
Mask slow page loads with a bit of stylish visual distraction.
Declining
74/100
Users enjoy the custom loading screens despite some rigid styling limitations.
Active installs
~12,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.6★
124 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-42%
Declining fast
50 → 29 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
- MINORdownloads down 42% vs a year ago
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
Declining fast · -42% in the last year
50/day a year ago→29/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayLoading Page with Loading Screen is generally praised for its effective loading indicator and high customizability, especially in the free version, though some users struggle with hard-coded styling constraints.
What people like
- +Displays a loading screen during slow page loads, informing visitors that content is loading.
- +Highly customizable, allowing users to adjust appearance such as logo and colors.×2
- +Free version works well and fulfills the advertised functionality.×2
- +Pro version adds a lazy-loading option for further performance improvement.
- +Improves perceived loading delay, making the loading process more pleasant for image-heavy pages.×2
- +Shows a loading icon when clicking links, not only on full page load.
Common complaints
- −Hard-coded CSS/JS limits customization, e.g., fixed logo width and stripped style tags.
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.94★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.60★
- 8%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 124 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-10-02★★★★★Very Goodcharlesnorton
- 2025-03-04★★★★★Good loading page plugindimytrov
- 2024-06-03★★★★★Amazingly amazingsraghav631-shot
- 2024-05-28★★★★★nice plugins and make loading page berbunga bungarumahsila1-shot
- 2024-04-09★★★★★Very nice plugin!d009
- 2024-03-23★★★★★Great Plugin :) :)elpetr
- 2024-02-03★★★★★Very useful.inbanglanetwork
- 2023-11-27★★★★★nice plugintredueuno
- 2023-09-07★★★★★i love itFidel Toro
- 2023-07-27★★★★★working very well. Thanks, devs!pedrocunhaweb
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.
29
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
26
Prior 7-day baseline
85
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,491
Mean release-day peak (30d)
86
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+11.5%
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.
18%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.86
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
96%
5★ share in analyzed sample
8%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
—
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.94 → 4.94★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered