80
WP-Memory-Usage
Simple monitoring that sometimes confuses megabytes with gigabytes.
HealthyGrowing
80/100
Users appreciate the lightweight design but report significant errors in memory reporting and multisite compatibility.
Active installs
~13,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.5★
21 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+103%
Growing fast
30 → 61 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 fast · +103% in the last year
30/day a year ago→61/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayWP-Memory-Usage is praised for its lightweight, easy-to-use performance stats, but users report inaccurate memory readings and compatibility issues on multisite installations.
What people like
- +Provides detailed memory and other statistics that help diagnose performance problems, including an AI prompt for interpreting numbers
- +Lightweight, simple, and set-and-forget design
- +Works correctly on WordPress 4.2.2
Common complaints
- −Reports incorrect PHP memory values (e.g., 2 MB instead of 2 GB), causing confusion and support issues
- −Fails to operate when activated on a single site within a multisite network and appears unmaintained, raising security concerns
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.52★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.50★
- 0%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 67% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-04-152025-05-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 21 total
Latest reviews · 21 analyzed
- 2026-03-24★★★★★Helped fix site performance problemsscmsteve
- 2024-03-26★★★★★Displays the memory limit & current memory usageDenny Müller
- 2024-03-24★★★★★5 Stars Useful plugindimal
- 2023-02-17★★★★★SloppyDean
- 2022-08-22★★★★★Great plugin! Simple and Useful.Abu Hurayra
- 2016-05-07★★★★★SuperKlokanSoft
- 2016-04-10★★★★★Not working in WP 4.1.1 multiGenealogyCoach
- 2015-12-29★★★★★Great !luciole135
- 2015-09-18★★★★★I like it!Zim
- 2015-06-13★★★★★Simple and Clean Good Info to knowdesktopanywhere
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.
65
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
58
Prior 7-day baseline
82
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,952
Mean release-day peak (30d)
188
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+12.1%
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.
67%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.74
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
76%
5★ share in analyzed sample
0%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.52 → 4.52★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered