Adam Greenwell

<p>The Hits List keeps post view tracking on your own WordPress site and gives you block, widget, and template-tag tools for displaying popular content.</p>
<p>Key features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Local view tracking stored in WordPress database tables</li>
<li>Overall and daily popular-post counts</li>
<li>Popular Posts block and widget support with public post type selection</li>
<li>WordPress dashboard cards for daily top posts, all-time top posts, and views over time</li>
<li>Top 10 migration compatibility with resumable rerun-safe imports, WP-CLI tools, legacy widget support, native widget conversion, cleanup for old Top 10 leftovers, and optional Top 10 plugin removal</li>
<li>REST-based tracking with AJAX fallback</li>
<li>Privacy-policy integration for site owners</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy</h3>
<p>The Hits List stores post view counts locally in the <code>hits_list</code> and <code>hits_list_daily</code> database tables (table prefix may vary).</p>
<p>It does not send tracking data to a third-party analytics service.</p>
<p>Daily tracking buckets are retained for 180 days by default and older rows are removed automatically.</p>
<p>You are responsible for describing your use of visitor analytics on your own site as needed.</p>
<h3>Source Code and Build Tools</h3>
<p>The compiled block assets in <code>blocks/popular-posts/build/</code> are generated from the human-readable source files included in <code>blocks/popular-posts/src/</code>.</p>
<p>To rebuild the block assets:</p>
<ol>
<li>Go to <code>blocks/popular-posts/</code>.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm install</code>.</li>
<li>Run <code>npm run build</code>.</li>
</ol>
<p>The block build uses <code>@wordpress/scripts</code>. Runtime PHP, vanilla JavaScript, and CSS assets outside the block build are maintained directly in the plugin source.</p>


The Hits List

Track post views locally, display popular posts, and migrate Top 10 data into a completely free, drop-in replacement.

derickschaefer

<p>Author Pageviews tracks page views on a per author basis and makes it accessible for monthly reporting and CSV exports.  The goal of the plugin is to help content publishers who monetize their sites via CPM based advertising better track and compensate their authors.  The plugin is properly escaped and secure.  It has been tested with W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache.  It might not properly work with some CSS magnification schemes so please test on your site and compare to Google analytics.</p>
<p>Author Pageviews Featers:</p>
<ul>
<li>Pageview tracking by author.</li>
<li>Admin reporting screen with time selection and CSV export functionality.</li>
<li>Ability for an admin to assign CPM compensation on a per author basis.</li>
<li>Author profile reporting that allows authors to see their page views and compensation.</li>
</ul>
<p>Author Pageviews supports:</p>
<ul>
<li>W3 Total Cache and WP Super Cache </li>
<li>Proper WordPress plugin coding including secure escaping.</li>
<li>Author and Administrator functionality.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Our Commitment</h3>
<p>Please understand that this is a free, open source plugin.  Still, we are committed to security and quality.  Visit the plugins website and provide us feedback.  We want your input and do strive to make it better.</p>


Author Page Views

Author Pageviews is a plugin designed to help CPM monetized content publishers track their individual authors page vies and compensate them.

The Hits List vs Author Page Views