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There are deffinitely different methods for implementing pageview counters. Considering some external service such as <a href="https://jetpack.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Jetpack</a> or <a href="https://analytics.google.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Analytics</a> is surely a good option, but there may be scenarios where you may want to handle this just by yourself and have everything more under control.
Since it’s very common to utilize some caching mechanism to improve your site’s performance, implementing counter directly on PHP level wouldn’t work reliably as counter would be barely incremeneted due to the caching. Better solution would be to use WordPress way of triggering AJAX requests and increment pageview counters anytime page is loaded, no matter if served from cache or not.
When we start to think on bigger scale though, we find tradional WP AJAX implementation quite resources heavy as well. This plugin uses slightly more complicated method to increase counters, but it’s very lightweight. In a nuthsell, counters are stored ‘outside’ of WordPress ecosystem into some fast storage such as Memcached or Redis. Then there’s implemented re-occuring cron task on WordPress level, which regularly checks for new counters and store its values as postmeta for each respective post.
Plugin utilizes <a href="https://www.phpfastcache.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">PhpFastCache library</a> which allows to store data into many types of back-ends. See their <a href="https://github.com/PHPSocialNetwork/phpfastcache/blob/master/docs/DRIVERS.md" rel="nofollow ugc">documentation</a> for more details. This feature allows you to choose any back-end depending on your hosting provider.
This plugin comes preconfigured with file-based storage, which should work on any hosting environment, but for higher traffic sites you may want to consider in-memory storage such as MemcacheD.
Whole principle and idea is described in following <a href="https://www.bouk.info/efficient-handling-of-ajax-requests-on-wordpress-platform/" rel="nofollow ugc">article</a> published on my blog.

PageViews Counter

Implement your own pageviews counter in efficient way, using different backend storages such as MemcacheD or Redis.

Danny van Kooten

ibericode

Harish Chouhan

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Koko Analytics is a lightweight and privacy-friendly statistics plugin that runs entirely on your own WordPress site without requiring any third-party services.
It aims to be a simpler alternative to Google Analytics for WordPress sites.
Whether you want to see your most popular pages or understand where your visitors are coming from. Koko Analytics tracks all the essential metrics without compromising the privacy of your visitors or the performance of your site.
<h3>Why Koko Analytics?</h3>
<ul>
<li>Plug and play – Activate the plugin and statistics will start working right away.</li>
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<li>Own your data – All data is processed and stored on your server only.</li>
<li>Fast and lightweight – Adds less than 500 bytes of JavaScript and handles traffic spikes with ease.</li>
<li>No cookies needed – Choose between cookie-based, cookieless, or no tracking at all.</li>
<li>Accurate essentials – Counts visitors, unique pageviews, and referral URLs.</li>
</ul>
Koko Analytics provides you with effective and reliable website analytics without sharing visitor data with companies that also happen to sell advertisements.
You can <a href="https://www.kokoanalytics.com/koko-analytics-dashboard/" rel="nofollow ugc">view a live demo here</a>.
This plugin is free, open-source and self-hosted — no account required. The <a href="https://github.com/ibericode/koko-analytics" rel="nofollow ugc">source code for Koko Analytics is available on GitHub here</a>.
<h3>Unlock advanced statistics with Koko Analytics Pro</h3>
You can benefit from several advanced features with <a href="https://www.kokoanalytics.com/pricing" rel="nofollow ugc">Koko Analytics Pro</a>, like custom event tracking, counting visitor countries and periodic email reports.

Koko Analytics – Privacy+Friendly statistics for WordPress


Nice simple and privacy friendly plugin


After initial problems works fine


Koko Analytics is a privacy-friendly analytics plugin that does exactly what it says on the tin. It's simple, effective, and respects the privacy of your visitors.


Excellent Plugin

Perfect

came here from slimstat after that seemed to have silently died (it seems back now), but haven't looked back since. love the events in kokopro too! ;-)

great job


I don't like the idea of very complex and granular analytics. I typically don't need or have time to review analytical tools like that. I just want to see the number of visitors, popular pages, and maybe a couple of other things. This plugin covers it. Most importantly, it looks clean. At least currently, there are no ads or other gaudy things in the dashboard.


I'm a fan


A great great Analytics tool for WordPress. It's fast, customizable, self-hosted and privacy friendly but what even stands out are the customer support and easy to use events in premium version. Really well thought out.


Perfect!


It is a simple plugin but is effective. Really love the Jetpack Statistics import function. Made it easy to switch. Look forward to seeing what new features will come.


Simple but effective


Koko Analytics is a lightweight and efficient plugin, standing out as one of the few that offers REST API support. This unique feature inspired us to integrate it with our app.



Additionally, the plugin's support team is responsive, helpful, and quick to address any issues, making it an excellent choice for website owners.


Nice and light plugin


Koko Analytics provides me with just the stats I need. It is simple, fast, and reliable and the developer continues to update it. 👏


Simple, Fast, Reliable


I'm using it for all websites that need simple stats, that's just perfect !


Excellent small stats plugin


Easy to set up and gives you the statistics most customers needs. No need for bulky and slow analytics that no one uses!


Just wonderful!


I love this plugin and use it as my standard solution for local and GDPR conform website stats.


Simple but great


Update 29th August 2025.



Quick support solved the issue. 



Update 28th August 2025.



After recent upgrade it stops tracking for me. Till now working fine.











It's a great plugin. Loved it. Using it for a while.



It is perfect for my blog. I'll recommend it to my friends.



Feature request:



Can we add Geography tracking or user esthetics tracking like browser, device, etc. ?


Stops tracking after recent upgrade


Does the job if you quickly want to know where your visitors are coming from and how many you're getting.


Simple and does the job

Simple, plug & play statistics for WordPress. GDPR-compliant, privacy-friendly and self-hosted. Get effective analytics with Koko Analytics.

PageViews Counter vs Koko Analytics – Privacy+Friendly statistics for WordPress