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Learn the numbers before you chase them.

What each metric means, how it's collected, and how to set alerts that fire on real movement.

Getting started

  • Create your workspace

    Register, name your workspace and land on the dashboard.

  • Add your first plugin

    Find your slug and start a tracking history.

  • Pick your keywords

    Choose the searches worth watching, and how many you get.

  • Invite your team

    Roles, permissions and what each one can change.

Metrics explained

  • Active installs vs downloads

    Why the two move differently and which to trust.

  • Keyword rank

    How position is measured against the directory search.

  • Download pace

    The model behind milestone projections and its confidence.

  • Rating and review counts

    How WordPress.org reports scores and how we normalise them.

Alerts

  • The five detectors

    Rank drop, top 10, low reviews, milestone near, download anomaly.

  • Thresholds and tuning

    Setting a rule that fires on signal, not noise.

  • The daily digest

    Why everything arrives in one email per sweep.

  • Running a sweep on demand

    Test delivery without waiting for the cron.

Workspace & billing

  • Plan limits

    What counts toward each cap and what happens at the ceiling.

  • Upgrading

    Yearly checkout, what changes immediately, and invoices.

  • Roles & permissions

    The four roles and per-resource overrides.

  • Cancelling

    What happens to your data when a subscription ends.

Full documentation lives in the app

Long-form guides, the metrics reference and release notes are inside your workspace, kept alongside the data they describe.

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Data sourcing

Where every number comes from.

Plugin metadata
The public WordPress.org plugin API — version, active installs, rating, download total, tested-up-to and the readme.
Keyword rank
The position your plugin holds in WordPress.org search results for a term, checked on each sync and stored with the date.
Reviews
Review threads published on your plugin's WordPress.org support forum, with the rating breakdown.
Vulnerabilities
Mirrored from the Wordfence Intelligence feed, refreshed every four hours. Records link back to the original disclosure.

WPInsight reads only public data. It never installs code on a WordPress site and never has access to your users, traffic or database.

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