Pageviews
A simple and lightweight pageviews counter for your WordPress posts and pages.
4.7(7 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 6 years agoAs of April 2026, Pageviews is a WordPress hits plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 7 reviews. It has been downloaded 45K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.4+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Last updated 6 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 71% this week. Top alternative: WP-PostViews.
4.7/57 reviews
1.0K+active installs
45K+total downloads
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
Pageviews is a simple and lightweight views counter for your WordPress posts and pages. It is based on JavaScript and is compatible with all caching plugins, proxies and complex setups. Pageviews works with a hosted processing service, and performs extremely well under high-traffic and on sites with large amounts of content.
Don’t start from scratch! Import existing numbers from Google Analytics and other services with Pageviews Sync.
Features
- Display the number of times a post or page has been viewed
- Works on high-traffic websites with zero impact on performance
- Includes useful hooks and APIs for seamless integration into third-party themes
- Compatible with caching plugins, proxies and application firewalls
More information on Pageviews.io.
If you need any setup assistance or help…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Best Javascript based page view counts
by daro2013·5 years ago·2 replies
Hi,
This is the best Javascript-based page view counts for my website because it works with other major CACHE plugins such as WP Fastest Cache, SuperCache, etc. without more custom codes.
My only drawbacks of this plugin are:
1. It is dependent on a third party website to count page views which may cause poor website performance.
2. There is no guide on how to reset those page view counts to Zero every month, 6 months or year, etc.
However, I still give 5 STARs to this plugin despite the above drawbacks.
Perfect Solution👌
by willconkwright·8 years ago·1 reply
Installed this locally to test before utilizing on a client site and experienced no problems whatsoever in either environment. I’m using it in a custom theme template and the integration couldn’t have been simpler. Thank you for this fantastic plugin.
I’ve also used it on a CPT with no issues as can be seen here.
Here is how I’m using it on the blog.
отлично
by resident82·8 years ago
ничего лишнего, можно кастомизировать
Simples e eficaz. Melhor é difícil.
by Rui Freitas·8 years ago
Excelente.
Mais simples seria difícil. Faz o que se propõe sem configurações.
Apresenta as leituras de cada artigo de forma discreta e permite ir ao Google Analytics buscar a contagem total.
Excellent.
Simpler would be difficult. It does what it proposes without setings.
Displays discreetly the views for each post and allows the user to fetch all the views stored on Google Analytics.
Sends information to plugin-author without asking by php-code
by alexfreeskier·8 years ago·2 replies
But you can stop this if you delete the last lines (just between <body> and </body> of auth.php
Additionally it has no other settings-options, which is why I better go with https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/post-views-counter/.
Last but not least it really does what it should, therefore at least 3 stars.
Cheers and keep on improving it.
Download Trends
Today: 2Yesterday: 5This week: 29Period total: 3K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.4+ requiredTested up to 5.5.18 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v0.11
95.2%
Other
4.8%
Top Alternatives to Pageviews
Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
0.11.0
- Added pageviews_script_version_param filter to remove JS version fragment
- Added minification. Enjoy your pagespeeds.
Contributors
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