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StatCounter – Free Real Time Visitor Stats
A veteran tracker that occasionally leaves users in the dark.
Healthy
65/100
Loyal users enjoy the dashboard but others struggle with broken installation and poor support.
Active installs
~134,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 70k+
Rating
4.0★
47 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-1%
Holding steady
150 → 149 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Holding steady · -1% in the last year
150/day a year ago→149/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayStatCounter is a long-standing visitor analytics service with a loyal base of veteran users who praise its ease of setup and multi-site overview, but the WordPress plugin draws persistent criticism for failing to work on installation, a cumbersome activation process, and unresponsive support.
What people like
- +Long-term users find the plugin simple and easy to set up, especially compared to manually inserting code×3
- +Provides a useful multi-site dashboard, letting users see stats for all their sites on one page×2
- +Considered easier to analyse visitor behaviour than Google Analytics for general-purpose use×2
- +Support is described as responsive by some users×2
Common complaints
- −Plugin fails to load or work after installation for multiple users, rendering it useless×4
- −Activation and setup process is overly complex, involving security codes and verification steps that don't work for some users×3
- −Free tier is capped at 500 page views, pushing users toward a paid premium upgrade
- −Support is unresponsive — tickets are auto-acknowledged but never actually answered×2
- −The StatCounter JS file is flagged by Google PageSpeed Insights as render-blocking JavaScript, potentially hurting site performance
- −Service reliability is a concern, with reported server outages causing gaps in traffic data
- −Sign-up is inaccessible in some regions (e.g. China) due to CAPTCHA issues
- −Some users suspect the free service degrades or blocks access over time to pressure upgrades
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.17★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.00★
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
Not enough review history.
All-time ratings · 47 total
Latest reviews · 47 analyzed
- 2023-05-10★★★★★Sadly it's not up to par with the servicemagen1
- 2023-05-03★★★★★All is wellbeckymash
- 2023-03-09★★★★★Just give me 1 line off code, not a plugin!DutchMan0
- 2023-03-07★★★★★Cannot login or view homepage to login!candy43211-shot
- 2022-08-22★★★★★Zero, zilch, no supportloades
- 2022-01-02★★★★★Rubbishamystonebik1-shot
- 2020-12-28★★★★★StatCounterHobgoblin
- 2019-11-27★★★★★not reliable.bloup
- 2019-10-09★★★★★Great Statcounterbriannie
- 2018-11-05★★★★★magnificent !Hermann Matthias
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to StatCounter
Top Analytics plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
157
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
154
Prior 7-day baseline
306
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
19,457
Mean release-day peak (30d)
646
Latest day · 2026-06-03(spike)
+1.9%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
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Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
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Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
70%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.02 → 4.17★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered