After 4 years of working with wordpress, I’ve come across many good and bad plugins. Almost all bad ones were being recommended by shit boost-your-seo websites.

But some of them are bad beyond a second chance. And this will be a list of those plugins that you shouldn’t even consider installing:

1. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics: Full of issues, everything is paid. You get no statistics information whatsoever.
2. Burst Statistics – Privacy-Friendly WordPress Analytics (Google Analytics Alternative): Same issue as above.
3. Booter – Bots & Crawlers Manager: All it does is grab a list of user agents and referrers and check every visitor against that. Completely useless.
4. WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative: Devs ignore issues reported. Had one reported and unsolved more than a month later
5. Site Kit by Google – Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed: Slow, heavy, useless(literally just a google analytics wrapper), will sell all your and your user’s data to advertisers.
6. MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy): Exact same as above.
7. Yoast SEO – Advanced SEO with real-time guidance and built-in AI: Heavy, slow, too much hidden behind paywalls.

If you have a wordpress website, do yourself a favor and avoid the headache.