Yesterday the average rating of all plugins on the wordpress.org repository changed; ratings that were not linked to a review, were removed. That means that ratings dating from before approximately November 2012, when reviews were introduced, are not being taken into account any more.
This had a positive impact on the average rating of my own plugins, but especially so for Autoptimize. That plugin was largely unsupported before I took over in January 2013 and got some low ratings as a consequence (the average was 4.2 at the time, if I’m not mistaking). With those old numbers now out of the way, the average went from 4.6 to 4.8 overnight. Yay!
[Update: a couple of days later there were even more changes on the WordPress Plugin pages.]
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Amazed by Autoptimize take-up
Less then a year after reaching 100000 downloads, Autoptimize broke the 200000 barrier just last week.
It’s also exiting to see how people are blogging (or tweeting) about it as well;
- David Mottershead wrote about it in his “How to make your WordPress website very fast“
- “Using Autoptimize Plugin for WordPress Performance” by Patrick Nommensen
- Mark De Scande, a WordPress performance consultant from South-Africa, wrote “Website Optimization Using Autoptimize on WP Engine Site“
- “Autoptimize für WordPress Blogs“; a very short but much-tweeted article in German
- “Velocizzare WordPress con Autoptimize, W3 Super Cache e EWWW Image Optimizer” which is, you guessed it, in Italian
- “HTML、CSS、JavaScriptを縮小してWordPressブログを高速化する方法（Autoptimizeプラグイン）” for the Japanese
- And in Spanish to finish up; “Autoptimize con W3 Total Cache“
So yeah, I’m pretty amazed by how well Autoptimize is doing. Thanks for the confidence!