WP Views Counter: stats, alternatives & is it maintained?

Maintenance check

Is WP Views Counter still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

No release for a while. The last one was 11 months ago.
Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 6.9.11, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.

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WP Views Counter alternatives

The most-installed plugins doing the same job, from Website Analytics. WP Views Counter itself ranks #64 of 140. How plugins are grouped.

#1

Site Kit by Google – Analytics, Search Console, AdSense, Speed

google-site-kit 5M installs · 4.2 stars #2

MonsterInsights – Google Analytics Dashboard for WordPress (Website Stats Made Easy)

google-analytics-for-wordpress 2M installs · 4.5 stars #3

Standing

More installed than 89.5% of the directory

Ahead of 42,704 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

89.5% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count

42,704 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one

5,029 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band

How to read that

The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

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