Lightweight, privacy-focused plugin for real-time page view analytics. All data stays on your server. Focuses on PageViews tracking.
As of April 2026, SQMViews is a WordPress metrics plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 157 times in total. Requires WordPress 6.2+ and PHP 8.1+. Available on WordPress.org since 2026. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Top alternative: Metricool.
SQMViews is a simple and lightweight tracking and analytics plugin that helps you understand how visitors interact with your WordPress content—without sending data to third-party services.
Plugin adds very little overhead, capable of tracking millions of page views per day on a moderately sized website.
Plugin includes sqm-views-pages.php drop-in script installation (Fast endpoint) to collect pageviews without loading WordPress core, reducing pageview request from 250 ms to 5 ms. If drop-in installation is not possible, the plugin falls back to the WordPress call (API endpoint).
Tracking & Analytics:
| WordPress | 6.2+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 8.1+ required |
See separate file CHANGELOG.md
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