Yoast SEO: stats, alternatives & is it maintained?

Maintenance check

Is Yoast SEO still maintained?

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

Updated recently. The last release was 1 week ago.
Tested with current WordPress. Tested up to 7.1.4; most actively maintained plugins are tested on 7.1.
Support is answered. 44 of 45 forum threads in the last two months were resolved.
Well rated. 4.8 out of 5 from 27,820 ratings.

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Yoast SEO alternatives

The most-installed plugins doing the same job, from SEO Suites. Yoast SEO itself ranks #1 of 76. How plugins are grouped.

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seo-by-rank-math 4M installs · 4.8 stars #3

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Standing

More installed than 99.9% of the directory

Ahead of 47,726 of the 47,729 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

47,726 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

2 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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