In reply to Dan.

Hi Dan,

thanks for your feedback.

As far as we know, the data provided by the Active Growth Chart has been described as faulty.

The active install count, even if rounded up, nobody ever said is wrong or garbage.

The number of active installs sorts the “Popular” plugin list.

Let me give you an example: There are approx 950 plugins with 10k active installs. We know it starts at position #2604 and ends at position #1658, passed that a plugin reaches 20k installs.
Statistically speaking, in this range, for every 95 positions, you are growing by approx 1000 active installs.

If my plugin yesterday sat at #2604, and today climbed to #2550. I can undoubtedly determine that my plugin has more active installs than yesterday. This is the same information the chart gave us, just under a different form.

The competitors’ list is based on tags. For some tags, it works very well, and for others much less, but soon we will give the option to select which plugin to show on that list.

Personally, I don’t really care if other plugins are growing or shrinking. I’m not obsessed with knowing the exact number of sites that are using my plugin.

All I care about is knowing if I’m doing better than yesterday.

As a plugin developer, I’m going after marginal improvements and growth, and WP Rankings can definitely tell me whether my plugins are growing or not.

I hope you see my point here.