Plugin profile · observed daily since 02 Aug 2026

Burst Statistics – Simple WordPress Analytics (Google Analytics Alternative)

Active installs200,000+ rounded
Current authorBurst Statistics B.V.
Owner changesNone while we have been watching
Last release10 days ago 29 Oct 2026
Support22 / 22 resolved, last 2 months
Releases on record21
Rating4.9 /5 · 186
Added to directory04 Feb 2022
Requires WP6.6
Requires PHP8.0
Version lag0 up to date
Tested up toWP 7.1.4 up to date

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Ownership

Held by Burst Statistics B.V. throughout, with no change of ownership observed since daily tracking began on 02 Aug 2026.

Full observed history, including every field transition

Committing accounts

Read from the plugin’s public release log, so these predate this registry. A committing account is not an owner. Thirty accounts commit to WooCommerce and it has never changed hands.

AccountReleasesFirstLast
RogierLankhorst1526 Feb 202621 Jul 2026

This registry did not observe a transfer; it read these names off a public log. Whether that reflects a change of ownership is not something the directory publishes.

Adoption

How widely the plugin is installed, and what the people running it think of it. WordPress.org rounds install figures to one significant digit, so they describe an order of magnitude rather than a headcount.

Very widely adopted: 200,000+ active installs. In the top tier of the directory by install count.

16,050 downloads a day over the last 7 days, steady against the 7 days before. Downloads are counted exactly and without a ceiling, so they show movement the rounded install figure cannot.

11 Sep 2026peak 85,196/day31 Oct 2026
4.9
out of 5
186 ratings
5★17594%
4★63%
3★00%
2★21%
1★32%

4 ratings left in the last 82 days, averaging 5.0 out of 5. Too few to compare against the lifetime average.

Daily record

Every field we record, one column per observation. Fields that never moved are named once rather than repeated across every column. A row of identical numbers would be padding.

Field18 Oct19 Oct20 Oct21 Oct22 Oct23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct30 Oct31 Oct
Downloads that day—1,2011,6782,84285,19611,5635,9844,1832,8304,8444,3252,9888,26284,920
Version3.7.23.7.23.7.23.7.33.7.33.7.33.7.33.7.33.7.33.7.33.7.33.7.33.7.43.7.4
Support threads1717182018192020212020202022
Threads resolved1717171716161616161518191922

Unchanged throughout: ratings total (186) · active installs (200,000+)

91 days of observation, most recent 14 shown.

Maintenance

When it was last released, and how far its declared compatibility has drifted from current WordPress.

Added to directory4.5 years ago 04 Feb 2022
Requires WP6.6
Requires PHP8.0
Version lagcurrent

Is anyone still maintaining this?

  • Last released 29 Oct 2026, 10 days ago.
  • Declares compatibility with WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • 22 of 22 support threads answered in the last two months.
  • The same account maintains 2 other plugins, 2 of which were updated in the last 90 days. the account is active.

A plugin that does one thing correctly may need no changes for years; a long gap is not, by itself, evidence of neglect.

History

Everything dated that this registry holds about the plugin, most recent first. Releases carry the author’s own release date; everything else is dated to when it was observed.

Entries marked from the release log predate this registry, and daily observation began 02 Aug 2026. They were read from the plugin’s public SVN history after the fact, not watched as they happened. Everything else was observed directly.

  1. 29 Oct 202610 days ago
    Version 3.7.4 released
  2. 20 Oct 202619 days ago
    Version 3.7.3 released
  3. 28 Sep 20261 month ago
    Version 3.7.2 released
  4. 18 Sep 20262 months ago
    Version 3.7.1 released
  5. 10 Sep 20262 months ago
    Version 3.7.0 released
  6. 19 Aug 20263 months ago
    Version 3.6.3 released
  7. 02 Aug 20263 months ago
    First observed by PluginsPediaDaily snapshots of this plugin’s directory record begin here. Everything above this line is observed; anything before it comes from fields the API itself reports.
  8. 21 Jul 20264 months ago
    Version 3.6.2 released
  9. 15 Jul 20264 months ago
    Version 3.6.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by RogierLankhorst.
  10. 02 Jul 20264 months ago
    Version 3.6.0.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by RogierLankhorst.
  11. 01 Jul 20264 months ago
    Version 3.6.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by RogierLankhorst.
  12. 17 Jun 20265 months ago
    Version 3.5.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by RogierLankhorst.
  13. 03 Jun 20265 months ago
    Version 3.5.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by RogierLankhorst.
  14. 20 May 20266 months ago
    Version 3.4.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by RogierLankhorst.
  15. 12 May 20266 months ago
    Version 3.4.2 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by RogierLankhorst.
  16. 06 May 20266 months ago
    Version 3.4.1.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by RogierLankhorst.
  17. 30 Apr 20266 months ago
    Version 3.4.1 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by RogierLankhorst.
  18. 28 Apr 20266 months ago
    Version 3.4.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by RogierLankhorst.
  19. 01 Apr 20267 months ago
    Version 3.3.0 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by RogierLankhorst.
  20. 12 Mar 20268 months ago
    Version 3.2.3 releasedfrom the release logCommitted by RogierLankhorst.
  21. 26 Feb 20268 months ago
    2 earlier releasesfrom the release logBetween 26 Feb 2026 and 09 Mar 2026. Listed individually in the public release log rather than here.
  22. 04 Feb 20224.5 years ago
    Added to the WordPress.org directoryReported by the plugin API as the date this plugin was added.

What we know, and what we don’t

Everything on this page in one place, including the gaps, so that nothing here is mistaken for a clean bill of health.

What we know

  • It has been held by Burst Statistics B.V. for all 91 days we have observed it.
  • It was last released 10 days ago (29 Oct 2026).
  • Its author declares it tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, which is current.
  • WordPress.org reports 200,000+ active installs.
  • It carries 186 ratings, averaging 4.9 out of 5.
  • 22 of 22 support threads in the last two months are marked resolved.

Every record on this site, this one included, works under the same limits. We read what WordPress.org publishes about a plugin, never the plugin’s own code, so nothing here says whether a plugin is well built or safe. Install counts reach us already rounded; a change smaller than a band step doesn’t show. We don’t track security advisories yet. For anything older than our first observation we rely on the plugin’s public release log, where one exists. What this registry can and cannot see

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