Hugh Lashbrooke

“Post Hit Counter” does what it says on the tin – it counts how many hits your posts receive. Hit counts are displayed in a new column in the post list table, in the submit box on the post edit screen and in the admin bar on the frontend.
Plugin Features
<ul>
<li>Easily visible hit counts in the dashboard and in the admin bar on the frontend</li>
<li>Shortcode to display view count for current or specified post</li>
<li>Widget to display your most viewed posts anywhere on your site</li>
<li>Dashboard widget to show your most viewed posts at a glance</li>
<li>No complicated analytics and statistics to wade through</li>
<li>Option to select which post types must be counted</li>
<li>Option to select which user roles should not trigger the hit counter</li>
</ul>
This is not meant as a replacement for more advanced analytics plugins – it is a counter so you can see which of your posts are more popular without diving too deeply into complicated viewing statistics.
Want to contribute? <a href="https://github.com/hlashbrooke/Post-Hit-Counter" rel="nofollow ugc">Fork the GitHub repository</a>.
This plugin was initially created as a demo for <a href="http://2014.capetown.wordcamp.org/session/building-your-first-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">a workshop</a> I ran at WordCamp Cape Town 2014. I have since fleshed it out and enhanced it to be more useful.

Post Hit Counter

Not complicated; just does what it says. Nice. Thanks.

Simply Works

A counter to track how many times your posts are viewed.

SandyRig

As the name suggests, it’s a very simple Hit Counter that counts the number of Unique Visitors and Page-views. It’s very light weight so it doesn’t strain your site or cause render blocking.
You can show either Unique Visitors count or Page-views count anywhere on the site using widgets or shortcode. You can also add/show both Counters by using two copies of the widget or the shortcode.
Note: It keeps counting even when you have no widget or shortcode active. To completely disable the counter you have to disable the plugin.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>AJAX based counter ignores most bots or crawlers</li>
<li>Monthly and weekly graph in admin</li>
<li>Show the Unique Visitors, Page-views count or both</li>
<li>Ability to reset the counter to any number any time</li>
<li>Can be shown anywhere on the site using Widgets and Shortcode</li>
<li>Counter works and shows data in admin even when no widget or short-code is active</li>
</ul>
<h4>SHORTCODES</h4>
[srs_total_visitors] for Unique Visitors 
[srs_total_pageViews] for Page-views
<a href="https://atif.rocks/srs-simple-hits-counter/" rel="nofollow ugc">DEMO</a>

SRS Simple Hits Counter

Simple plugin to count and show a total number of hits (Unique visitors or page-views) to the site without using any third party code.

Post Hit Counter vs SRS Simple Hits Counter