Since yesterday, UpdraftPlus’s download counter at wordpress.org ticked over to two million. When we passed one million, we were the 51st plugin to do so; we’ve continued to accelerate, and are now the 30th plugin to reach 2,000,000. That’s a lot of backing up going on!
This feels great… but it gets better…
You may know that raw download numbers can be a bit misleading. They cover the plugin’s entire history, and depend not only upon popularity, but upon how often a plugin is updated. Every time someone updates, a fresh download is registered by wordpress.org. To provide more meaningful data on popularity, the WordPress repository recently began displaying information about numbers of active installations. We can now see, for example, that BuddyPress has a 30% higher download count than UpdraftPlus despite UpdraftPlus having around 3 times as many users.
These “active install” numbers are shown to 1 significant figure only. Yesterday, UpdraftPlus was showing 300,000+ . But, overnight, not only has UD’s download counter ticked over to 2,000,000, its “active installations” counter has now bumped up to 400,000+. UpdraftPlus is now unambiguously the #1 most installed WordPress backup plugin. (There was one other plugin that also was showing 300,000+, and still is).
Being #1 is no longer our estimation based on deductions from imperfect figures, but a published fact on wordpress.org that everyone can see. 400,000+ websites use UpdraftPlus for their backups – we’re more trusted than any other solution.
We want to thank our users for this continuing vote of confidence. We’re also on schedule for another record month of sales; if you’ve not yet done so, then please do check out our flagship product, UpdraftPlus Premium – it’s got all the features, and personal support; we believe there’s no better backup/restore/clone solution on the market.
David Anderson (founder, lead developer, UpdraftPlus)
Congratulations David. Well deserved.
Congrats David from a premium customer/ friend in Miami, FL. Keep up the good work!
Mark
I’ve tried many solutions for both single and multisite backup. Your product, in my view, is hands down the best. The fantastic thing about your solution is that it puts emphasis on recovery not just backup, and the multisite restore/migration actually works. Thanks David!