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Simple Post Views Count
Count visitor views for your posts [ALSO, READ OUR RECOMMENDATION].
The facts
- Rating
- 4★ from 4
- Active installs
- 600+
- Price
- Free
- Last updated
- 14 Feb 2022
- Added
- Oct 2015
- Requires WP
- 4.4
- Tested up to
- WP 5.3.23
- Downloads
- 37,678
Our analysis
AI-assistedSimple Post Views Count is a WordPress plugin that tracks the number of views on your posts. However, the author suggests that it is not effective due to the influence of bots and quick page closures, which can inflate view counts without providing meaningful insights.
The plugin has been marked as depreciated, with the author recommending the use of Google Analytics instead for more accurate tracking and statistics. This plugin may suit users who are looking for basic post view tracking, but its effectiveness is questioned.
Best for: This plugin may suit users looking for basic post view tracking without needing advanced analytics.
What it does well
- ✓Free to use from the WordPress.org directory
- ✓Simple functionality for counting post views
- ✓Active installation base of 600
Where it falls short
- •Marked as depreciated by the author
- •Author recommends against using this for accurate tracking
- •Limited usefulness due to potential inflated view counts
Verdict
While Simple Post Views Count offers basic functionality, its effectiveness is limited and the author advises using more robust tracking solutions like Google Analytics.
From the developer
ttodua's own description of Simple Post Views Count, lightly tidied.
Plugin depreciated
Now, we are finally convinced that GOOGLE ANALYTICS stats and tracking systems are uncomparably superior (which also comes as other plugins, i.e. we like Google Analytics [by MonsterInsights]) over useless “POST-VIEWS” plugins, because these drawbacks:
– There are tons of bots, crawlers, search or aggregation engines, that view your websites and pages daily, and “view your posts”. That ends up in fake/boosted “Post views” dramatically.
Beside bots, many people just …:
– people open the pages in the background and close them without reading at all
– open the pages, but close while site is still loading
– open the pages, but close quickly, under 1-2 seconds, without reading your pages..
– and many other reasons.
All these actions still increases the Post-views counter. So, to say decisively, such numbers are not of any real help, instead they just mislead site-owners and their decisions..
… What is solution?
We praise Google Analytics (or alike) tracking systems. This is what they are made for ! This is the field, where they know what to do. Just state-of-the-art. They give you statistics not only of page-views, average duration (seconds), Realtime , but other tons of statisctis, which gives you realistic information about your posts and website, to make correct decisions.
YOU WILL NOT REGRET.
Just spend 2 minute to sign up for Google Analytics, get the code and use “Google Analytics” plugin.
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