Best Free WordPress Plugins for Stats

15 plugins compared · Updated August 2026 · Stats

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Choosing a WordPress plugin for stats comes down to a few things: whether it is still actively maintained, whether real users rate it well, and whether it does the specific job you need without dragging the rest of the site down.

We ranked 15 plugins using our WPScore, which weighs the user rating (adjusted for how many people actually rated it), how many sites run it, how recently it was updated, and which WordPress version it is tested against. 15 of them have enough public data to be scored; the rest are listed below the ranked block, clearly marked, rather than being given a number we cannot justify.

How this list is funded. Some links here earn us a commission if you buy. It costs you nothing extra, and it does not move anything up the list — the order comes from the WPScore, which is calculated from public ratings, install counts and update history. See the method.

At a glance

1. Independent Analytics Best overall 89/100
2. Statify 88/100
3. WP Statistics 87/100
4. Connect Matomo 86/100
5. WP Visitor Statistics 85/100
6. Statify 85/100
7. Plausible Analytics 85/100
8. WP Server Health Stats 85/100
9. StatCounter 84/100
10. Simple Blog Stats 84/100
11. Yandex Metrica 82/100
12. Analytics Insights 82/100
13. Clicky Analytics 82/100
14. Wp Post Views 82/100
15. Counters Block 82/100

Best overall Free by Ben Sibley

Independent Analytics

A simple, yet powerful WordPress analytics plugin that gives you privacy-friendly stats to grow your website. A Google Analytics alternative.

4.8★: from 166 ratings
100k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1

WPScore

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Free by pluginkollektiv

Statify

Visitor statistics for WordPress with focus on data protection, transparency and clarity. Perfect as a widget in your WordPress Dashboard.

4.8★: from 51 ratings
100k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.0.4

WPScore

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Free by VeronaLabs

WP Statistics

Get website traffic insights with GDPR/CCPA compliant, privacy-friendly analytics. Includes visitor data, stunning graphs, and no data sharing.

4.1★: from 757 ratings
600k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1

WPScore

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Free by matomoteam

Connect Matomo

Adds Matomo (former Piwik) statistics to your WordPress dashboard and is also able to add the Matomo Tracking Code to your blog.

4.5★: from 95 ratings
60k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.0.0

WPScore

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Free by osama.esh

WP Visitor Statistics

This plugin will help you to track your visitors & visits, browsers, operating systems, GEO locations and much more, easy to install and working fine.

4.5★: from 156 ratings
20k+: active installs
Updated: Jun 2026
Tested to: WP 7.0.4

WPScore

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Free by Patrick Robrecht

Statify

This plugin evaluates the data collected with the privacy-friendly Statify Plugin (data tables and diagrams). The evaluation can be downloaded as csv.

4.6★: from 11 ratings
20k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1

WPScore

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Free by Plausible Insights OÜ

Plausible Analytics

Simple, lightweight, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative for WordPress with a clean dashboard.

5★: from 29 ratings
10k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.0.4

WPScore

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Free by iSaumya

WP Server Health Stats

Monitor your WP site the right way with most important stats like Database, PHP details, PHP Memory, RAM Usage, CPU load, Server Uptime & more.

4.8★: from 110 ratings
9k+: active installs
Updated: Jul 2026
Tested to: WP 7.0.4

WPScore

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Free by StatCounter

StatCounter

Real-time visitor stats, session replay and heatmaps for your WordPress site. See exactly how visitors use your site - and why they leave.

4★: from 47 ratings
70k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.0.4

WPScore

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Free by Jeff Starr

Simple Blog Stats

Displays a wealth of useful statistics about your site. Display total number of posts, pages, categories, tags, and much more.

4.9★: from 38 ratings
4k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1

WPScore

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Free by Mustafa Uysal

Yandex Metrica

Easy way to use Yandex Metrica on your WordPress site.

3.8★: from 33 ratings
20k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1

WPScore

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Free by Alin Marcu

Analytics Insights

A full-featured and entirely free Google Analytics Dashboard plugin for WordPress. Displays stats to help you to better understand your site content.

4.6★: from 34 ratings
10k+: active installs
Updated: May 2026
Tested to: WP 7.0.4

WPScore

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Free by Alin Marcu

Clicky Analytics

This plugin will display Clicky Web Analytics data and statistics inside your WordPress Administration Dashboard.

4.5★: from 25 ratings
10k+: active installs
Updated: May 2026
Tested to: WP 7.0.4

WPScore

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Free by Ronak J Vanpariya

Wp Post Views

WP Post Views is a lightweight and efficient plugin to track and display post views in WordPress.

4.3★: from 6 ratings
4k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1

WPScore

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Free by bPlugins

Counters Block

Animated number counters for Gutenberg. Show stats, milestones, KPIs, and live WooCommerce or WordPress data with 16 counter themes.

5★: from 8 ratings
3k+: active installs
Updated: Aug 2026
Tested to: WP 7.1

WPScore

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