In reply to Otto.

I guess the total is mainly for plugin authors as some form of validation. I think most plugin authors are going to be interested in their total download count. I know the count includes downloads of updates, so doesn't reflect actual usage and is therefore less meaningful, but that's what we have at the moment.

From the average user's point of view, it might help them work out whether to trust a plugin author, although using total number of downloads for that that is definitely flawed. But how many average users visit a plugin author's profile page anyway?

Note, I wasn't just talking about the total number. I was also talking about the other information for each plugin. I know when I looked my WP Tally page, I saw a couple of the plugins had Last Updated dates from 2009! A bit of a wake up call! Also seeing the average rating for each of your plugins very quickly from one spot was interesting as well.

This sort of stuff would help users decide whether to trust a plugin author (if they ever visit this page).

Is there a good reason not to display last updated, average rating etc, on this page? I'm asking that genuinely, as I'm guessing wordpress.org needs to take a lot of things into consideration from a performance point of view. I think it would be useful.