A lightweight counter to track the number of hits on all posts on the website.
As of April 2026, DX2 Post Hit Counter is a WordPress hit plugin with 30 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 4.0K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 9 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor….
This hit counter is a light weight way to track the hits on all posts, including custom post types on your WordPress blog. The plugin uses ajax to count the hit which means it will have no affect on the speed of which the page loads. This also leads to a much more reliable hit count as the hit is not actually counted until the page has loaded. To the end user this hit counter will have almost no affect on the pages load speed.
Your traffic stats are can be viewed quickly from the dashboard widget that will give you a daily overview of the most popular posts along with the total hits on the website for the past few days.
When logged in as an administrator you will be able to see the number of hits that a page has from the WordPress admin title bar. When editing…
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 4.7.33 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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