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Async JavaScript

Async JavaScript

Performance Asset Optimization

Async JavaScript is a WordPress plugin for Asset Optimization. It ranks #21 of 154 in that group by active installs and was last updated 3 years ago.

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Slug async-javascript

60K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.7 Rating out of 5 From 102 ratings
50 Releases Since 11 December 2014
Jun 2023 Last release 3 years ago

Maintenance check

Is Async JavaScript still maintained?

Probably not - several signs point to a plugin that is no longer being looked after. Compare the alternatives below.

  • Not updated in over two years. The last release was 3 years ago.
  • Not tested with recent WordPress. Tested only up to 6.2.15; current plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Well rated. 4.7 out of 5 from 102 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 98.6% of the directory

Ahead of 47,042 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.

98.6% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
47,042 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
691 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
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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.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
2.21.08.31
Requires WordPress
4.6
Tested up to
6.2.15
Added to the directory
11 December 2014
Last updated
22 June 2023
Contributors
3
Author
David Clough

Its own tags

  • async
  • javascript
  • pagespeed
  • performance
  • render blocking

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