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Search Meter
Uncover popular searches while dodging messy database residue.
HealthyGrowing
72/100
Users appreciate the simple search tracking despite data recording issues and lack of multisite support.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.3★
29 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+97%
Growing fast
19 → 37 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORnot updated in 6 months
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 fast · +97% in the last year
19/day a year ago→37/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySearch Meter is a well-regarded, lightweight plugin for tracking on-site search queries, appreciated for its simplicity and usefulness, though it has known issues with WordPress Multisite and occasional failures to record any data at all.
What people like
- +Simple, lightweight, and does exactly what it promises — tracks what visitors search for on the site×5
- +Useful for content strategy, helping site owners identify what readers are looking for×3
- +Includes a CSV export feature for search data×2
- +Helps surface unexpected issues such as empty string searches being submitted
Common complaints
- −Does not work on WordPress Multisite, and leaves residue tables in the database on removal
- −Some users report no stats are recorded at all despite performing searches
- −At least one user found no CSV export option, suggesting the feature may not be consistently available or visible
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.31★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 3%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-02-152025-04-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 29 total
Latest reviews · 30 analyzed
- 2025-02-05★★★★★Nice and simple, but history appears to be limitedelaborate
- 2024-02-12★★★★★Good plugin.Francisco Vivo
- 2023-01-04★★★★★Good plugin.nolfnolf
- 2022-08-13★★★★★Very useful pluginnorbou
- 2021-04-08★★★★★must haverol69
- 2020-03-21★★★★★UsefulVu Tru So
- 2019-08-28★★★★★Nice Plugindaotiendung
- 2019-07-29★★★★★Nice plugin, does just what it says it will doTrishaM
- 2018-12-01★★★★★Очень удобный и информативный планигJenya
- 2018-05-05★★★★★BienDenim301
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.
36
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
45
Prior 7-day baseline
33
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
34
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-20.0%
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.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.67
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
73%
5★ share in analyzed sample
3%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.20 → 4.31★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered