10 Best Light Views Counter Alternatives in 2026
Updated October 23, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Light Views Counter has 3,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Light Views Counter
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WP-PostViews
Closest match4.4 (65) 90,000+ active installsEnables you to display how many times a post/page had been viewed.
Shares the Counter, statistics, views tags on WordPress.org. About 30 times the installs, last updated August 24, 2026.
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4.9 (1,234) 100,000+ active installsCount and display post views, track site-wide visits, and see what content works – inside WordPress. Fast, easy to use and privacy-first.
Shares the Counter, statistics tags on WordPress.org. About 33 times the installs, last updated 15 days ago.
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Connect Matomo – Analytics Dashboard for WordPress
4.5 (95) 60,000+ active installsAdds Matomo (former Piwik) statistics to your WordPress dashboard and is also able to add the Matomo Tracking Code to your blog.
Shares the statistics, tracking tags on WordPress.org. About 20 times the installs, last updated September 15, 2026.
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4.8 (816) 70,000+ active installsReal-time WordPress analytics that stay on your own server: pageviews, outbound links, WooCommerce funnels, all privacy-first and GDPR-ready.
Shares the statistics, tracking tags on WordPress.org. About 23 times the installs, last updated June 24, 2026.
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GA Google Analytics – Connect Google Analytics to WordPress
4.9 (158) 400,000+ active installsAdds Google Analytics tracking code to your WordPress site. Supports many tracking features.
Shares the statistics, tracking tags on WordPress.org. About 133 times the installs, last updated August 10, 2026.
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4.3 (29) 20,000+ active installsSearch Meter tracks what your readers are searching for on your site. View full details of recent searches or stats for the last day, week or month.
Shares the statistics tag on WordPress.org. About 6.7 times the installs, last updated December 3, 2025.
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4.9 (38) 4,000+ active installsDisplays a wealth of useful statistics about your site. Display total number of posts, pages, categories, tags, and much more.
Shares the statistics tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated August 9, 2026.
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4.5 (25) 10,000+ active installsThis plugin will display Clicky Web Analytics data and statistics inside your WordPress Administration Dashboard.
Shares the statistics tag on WordPress.org. About 3.3 times the installs, last updated 20 days ago.
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4.1 (233) 30,000+ active installsTrack visitors, page views, countries, browsers, search traffic and more in one simple dashboard, with bots filtered out.
Shares the statistics tag on WordPress.org. About 10 times the installs, last updated 5 days ago.
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Search Insights – Privacy-Friendly Search Analytics
4.9 (29) 3,000+ active installsUncover exactly what visitors search for on your site. Stop guessing what content to create, fix content gaps, and boost engagement.
Shares the statistics tag on WordPress.org. A similar number of installs, last updated August 28, 2026.
Switching from Light Views Counter: common questions
What is the best alternative to Light Views Counter?
WP-PostViews is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 90,000+ active installs with a 4.4 out of 5 rating.
Which Light Views Counter alternative has the most users?
GA Google Analytics, with 400,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Light Views Counter alternative is rated highest?
Post Views Counter, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 1,234 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Light Views Counter alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Light Views Counter score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Light Views Counter on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
WP-PostViews is the closest match to Light Views Counter by the data we track, and GA Google Analytics has the widest reach with 400,000+ active installs. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics shipped the most recent release, on October 18, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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