Akismet Anti-spam: stats, alternatives & is it maintained?

Maintenance check

Is Akismet Anti-spam still maintained?

Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.

Updated recently. The last release was 3 months ago.
Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
Well rated. 4.7 out of 5 from 1,187 ratings.

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Akismet Anti-spam alternatives

The most-installed plugins doing the same job, from Spam Protection. Akismet Anti-spam itself ranks #1 of 141. How plugins are grouped.

#2

Antispam Bee

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WP Armour – Honeypot Anti Spam

honeypot 400K installs · 5.0 stars #4

CF7 Apps – Addons for Contact Form 7 (Honeypot, Database, Redirection, Webhook, etc.)

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Standing

More installed than 99.9% of the directory

Ahead of 47,723 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

99.9% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

47,723 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

10 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band

How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

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