Best hits plugins for WordPress
The most popular hits plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. WP-PostViews leads with 90K+ active installs, ahead of SRS Simple Hits Counter (8K+) and Real-Time Post Statistics for WordPress (1K+). All 22 plugins tagged “hits” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 hits plugins
- 1.
WP-PostViewsThe most installed hits plugin, with 90K+ active installs. Rated 4.4 from 65 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
SRS Simple Hits Counter8K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 6 reviews, updated 5 months ago.
- 3.
Real-Time Post Statistics for WordPress1K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, updated 3 months ago.
- 4.
Counter-Hits1K+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 9 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 5.
Pageviews1K+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 7 reviews, last updated 6 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.24.
- 6.
AJAX Hits Counter + Popular Posts Widget900+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 17 reviews, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.7.21.
- 7.
Simple Post Views Count500+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 8.
Hit Counter Max300+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 6 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.1.42.
- 9.
Most Read Posts in XX days200+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.2.30.
- 10.
Hit Sniffer Live Blog Analytics100+ active installs. Rated 2.3 from 7 reviews, last updated 7 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.0.0.
All 22 plugins tagged “hits”
WP-PostViews
Up in the last 7 days:1#470by Lester Chan2 months ago
Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.
- Installs
- 90K+
- Rating
- 4.4(65)
- Downloads
- 321/day
SRS Simple Hits Counter
Up in the last 7 days:12#2,307by SandyRig5 months ago
Display unique visitor or page-view counts anywhere on your site using widgets or shortcodes — Simple, very lightweight and no third-party code.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.2(6)
- Downloads
- 46/day
Real-Time Post Statistics for WordPress
Down in the last 7 days:15#5,270by osama.esh3 months ago
A lightweight and simple tool to track your post statistics with real insights.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.8(4)
- Downloads
- 23/day
Counter-Hits
Down in the last 7 days:12#6,455by wpgear9 months ago
A simple, easy, fast, adaptive, local, objective counter to visit your site.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Pageviews
Down in the last 7 days:40#6,530by Pressjitsu6 years ago
A simple and lightweight pageviews counter for your WordPress posts and pages.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.7(7)
- Downloads
- 11/day
AJAX Hits Counter + Popular Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:14#7,044by kutsy5 years ago
Plugin counts posts views (hits) by using external AJAX based counter script of this plugin, which is best solution for caching whole page or using ot …
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.9(17)
- Downloads
- 12/day
Simple Post Views Count
#8,745by ttodua4 years ago
Count visitor views for your posts [ALSO, READ OUR RECOMMENDATION].
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- 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
Most Read Posts in XX days
Down in the last 7 days:52#11,742by Claudio Simeone7 years ago
A simple plugin that counts and shows hits for each Post and Page in your WordPress blog.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hit Sniffer Live Blog Analytics
Up in the last 7 days:54#16,073by sanarena8 years ago
Hit Sniffer was a powerful real time website visitor activity tracker.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 2.3(7)
- Downloads
- 0/day
DP Post Views Counter
Down in the last 7 days:165#20,070by Denys Popov7 years ago
The plugin show how many people have viewed an article on the site.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
number of view
Down in the last 7 days:142#20,358by lavluda15 years ago
A simple plugin to count and display hits of post and pages.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
VR-Visitas (hits counter stats)
Down in the last 7 days:26#20,659by Vicente Ruiz Gálvez12 years ago
This plugin has been removed and is no longer updated.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 1.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Views Counter
#21,805by Akhtarujjaman Shuvo9 years ago
Simple Plugin for showing the post or page view on Admin Column.no need to add code to theme file.just activate the plugin and enjoy.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Posts Unique View Counter
#24,376by David Angulo4 years ago
Easily count unique views of your posts.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP-PostViews Plus widget
Down in the last 7 days:808#29,181by flyaga16 years ago
This is a widget based on WP-PostViews Plus plugin by Richer Yang (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-postviews-plus).
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
PopPosts
Down in the last 7 days:4,496#42,306by Mudimedia16 years ago
A simple plugin to count and display hits of post and pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Post Stats
Down in the last 7 days:2,262#46,493by Pankaj Jha13 years ago
Simple post stats plugin. Enables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
GoTo Redirect
#47,807by Bainternet14 years ago
simple and lightweight plugin that lets you track your own shorten url links
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
The Hits Counter
Down in the last 7 days:2,230#47,927by Gagan Deep Singh9 months ago
Checks and displays the number of hits for posts and pages
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hit Counter
Down in the last 7 days:6,924#71,055by the_sniper8 years ago
Hitscounter counts the total hits on every post in a wordpress Installation.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day