Best hit counter plugins for WordPress
The most popular hit counter plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WPS Visitor Counter leads with 10K+ active installs, ahead of Plugin Name (600+) and Hit Counter Max (300+). All 12 plugins tagged “Hit Counter” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 hit counter plugins
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WPS Visitor CounterThe most installed hit counter plugin, with 10K+ active installs. Rated 3.9 from 8 reviews, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
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Plugin Name600+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 7 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38.
- 3.
Hit Counter Max300+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 6 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 4.
MWR Hit Counter100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 5.
MC Visitor Tally100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 month ago.
- 6.
mzz-stat100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 9 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 7.
WPCreatix ViewMeter50+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 days ago.
- 8.
Personal Hit Counter30+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 5 months ago.
- 9.
Traffic flash counter30+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1.
- 10.
statistX10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
All 12 plugins tagged “Hit Counter”
WPS Visitor Counter
Down in the last 7 days:3#1,676by techmix9 months ago
Display website visitor statistics with widget, shortcode, and Gutenberg block support.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 3.9(8)
- Downloads
- 56/day
Plugin Name
Up in the last 7 days:4#8,496by helenthomaswp9 years ago
TSW lets your users know how much traffic you have on your blog. It counts pages visited, hits and unique IPs on your blog and shows it in a widget.
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.4(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Hit Counter Max
Down in the last 7 days:46#10,943by jamesdouglasm9 years ago
A simple but an effective web hit counter stats plugin for your wordpress blog. Cool layouts that fit for any kind of web design.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.5(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
MWR Hit Counter
Up in the last 7 days:37#13,128by Daniel Martín Ochoa19 days ago
A lightweight global WordPress counter with twelve visual styles, display sizes, flexible counting behavior, number formatting, shortcode overrides an …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
MC Visitor Tally
#14,757by Mike Hickcox1 month ago
Counts unique daily visits. Dashboard widget. Monthly comparisons. Shortcode and widget.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 5/day
mzz-stat
Down in the last 7 days:61#16,018by mjassen (mjjojo)9 years ago
Shows the WP site administrator how many visits per page per day to their WP site.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPCreatix ViewMeter
Down in the last 7 days:615#20,294by WPCreatix2 days ago
A WordPress visitor counter for page views and post views, kept on your own server. Filters bots and AI crawlers and counts behind page caching.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 20/day
Personal Hit Counter
#23,309by Dear5 months ago
Inform the visitor, below the main content, how many times a specific Page, Post, or WooCommerce Product has been viewed by that visitor
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.0(1)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Traffic flash counter
Down in the last 7 days:65#25,167by donimedia15 years ago
Animated traffic flash counter .
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
statistX
Down in the last 7 days:14#30,553by Yatko16 years ago
statistX adds a configurable hit counter to your WordPress blog. It also includes a web traffic and search/keyword -analysis.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ozh' Click Counter
Down in the last 7 days:228#34,709by Ozh16 years ago
You have a blog. You have stats telling you how many people read it. You post links. But do you have something telling you how many people click on yo …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Stats4U
Down in the last 7 days:216#65,703by lwitsolutions1 month ago
A visitor counter from stats4u.net. Paste the code, pick a place, and let your consent banner decide when it loads.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day