Best page view plugins for WordPress
The most popular page view plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Simple Post Views Count leads with 500+ active installs, ahead of MWR Hit Counter (100+) and Web Visitor Counter (50+). All 5 plugins tagged “page view” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 5 page view plugins
- 1.
Simple Post Views CountThe most installed page view plugin, with 500+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 4 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.3.27.
- 2.
MWR Hit Counter100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 2 weeks ago.
- 3.
Web Visitor Counter50+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 4.GA-PVcounter
10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.6.1.
- 5.
ConacLogFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 1 week ago.
All 5 plugins tagged “page view”

Simple Post Views Count
#8,728by ttodua4 years ago
Count visitor views for your posts [ALSO, READ OUR RECOMMENDATION].
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day

MWR Hit Counter
Up in the last 7 days:92#13,116by 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

Web Visitor Counter
#19,997by jennyong5 years ago
Web visitor counter help to show page or post view count to site visitor.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
GA-PVcounter
Down in the last 7 days:301#45,436by enomoto celtislab13 years ago
Google Analytics PageView counter and Popular posts, Recent posts widget
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day

ConacLog
#62,054by yamakawatakei12 days ago
Records and analyzes WordPress access logs locally with privacy-focused IP hashing.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day