The rating figures we saw before clearly show that WordPress SEO by Yoast gets a better rating than All in One SEO Pack. But I believe that there is something else that should be pointed out about the ratings. Let´s take a closer look at how they are calculated. This is what was shown a moment ago on the WordPress Plugin Directory for each one of these plugins:
| All in One SEO Pack | WordPress SEO by Yoast |
|---|---|
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WordPress SEO not only gets a better general rating, there are a lot more people willing to give it a 5 stars score! And also, we should not forget that this plugin has been around for much less time than the other one. There is another interesting point to consider as well: at the same time there are fewer users rating this plugin low.
Taking all this into account leads me to hold what I said before, the winner seems to be WordPress SEO by Yoast. But, since this blog happens to be on a website which features an online tool that tells the plugin being used by WordPress sites, let´s take advantage of it to get some more facts!
What we´re finding on WordPress sites
On the sidebar menu of this website you may find the links to our Top 10 Plugins and Top 20 Plugins reports. These reports show on a table the 10 or 20 plugins which have been more frequently discovered by our plugin detection tools.
Our experience tells us that the websites investigated by our detector usually lie on several different classes: the most popular WP sites, the user´s own site, the most appealing sites in terms of design, etc. For the purpose of this post that means that our databases are filled with information about the WordPress themes and plugins used by either popular sites or random sites, which makes it ideal to get a hint about actual trends.
So here you have a screenshot of the top part of our Top 10 Plugins report for today:
Again, the winner is WordPress SEO by Yoast, which also is the number 1 plugin, not only among the SEO plugins, it is the plugin we have detected more often on the sites our users wanted to check. All in One SEO Pack is at this moment ranking third since the also very popular Contact Form 7 is placed in between the two plugins we are comparing here.
For those who are not familiar with our site, the percentages shown on our report stand for the number of times a plugin was found throughout the total queries performed by our WPThemeDetector. For example, out of a thousand times we detected a plugin in a site, 60 times the plugin found was WordPress SEO by Yoast.
Conclusion
From the facts we have presented and discussed on this post I believe that WordPress SEO by Yoast should not only be considered a more successful plugin than All in One SEO Pack at the present moment, I also think that we may expect its success to grow further, thus widening the popularity gap between both plugins at least while All in One SEO Pack does not react with the release a newer and improved version.
January 11th, 2013 UPDATE:
Just to make sure, I waited for another 24 hours and then checked the number of downloads for each plugin again. This is what I´ve got now:
| Plugin | Downloads Jan 11 | Downloads Jan 10 | Difference | Growth % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All in One SEO Pack | 13,323,924 | 13,315,144 | 8,780 | 0.066% |
| WordPress SEO by Yoast | 3,229,395 | 3,216,248 | 13,147 | 0.409% |
We can see how our assumptions and predictions seem to point in the right direction. The number of downloads for WordPress SEO by Yoast is slighty higher than a day ago, while it is lower for All In One SEO Pack.
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