Best hits counter plugins for WordPress
The most popular hits counter plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics leads with 30K+ active installs, ahead of Hit Counter (fewer than 10). All 2 plugins tagged “Hits Counter” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 hits counter plugins
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Visitor Traffic Real Time StatisticsThe most installed hits counter plugin, with 30K+ active installs. Rated 4.1 from 233 reviews, updated 3 weeks ago.
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Hit CounterFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.9.35.
All 2 plugins tagged “Hits Counter”
Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics
Down in the last 7 days:2#976by wp-buy21 days ago
Track visitors, page views, countries, browsers, search traffic and more in one simple dashboard, with bots filtered out.
- Installs
- 30K+
- Rating
- 4.1(233)
- Downloads
- 285/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