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Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics
Simple visitor tracking with a side of database anxiety.
GrowingPoor rating
67/100
Easy setup attracts beginners but database bugs and broken reporting after updates undermine the experience.
Active installs
~55,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 30k+
Rating
4.2★
232 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+52%
Growing fast
189 → 288 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORverified rating is 3.85★
- MINORreviews unevenly distributed over time
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
Growing fast · +52% in the last year
189/day a year ago→288/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayVisitor Traffic Real Time Statistics has a mixed reputation — some users find it easy to set up and useful for basic tracking, but recurring complaints about misleading naming, database-breaking bugs, broken reporting after updates, and a largely hollow pro version undermine its credibility.
What people like
- +Easy to install and use, works out of the box for non-technical users×2
- +Covers basic visitor tracking needs including countries, pages, and visit times×2
- +Support resolved issues when responsive×2
Common complaints
- −Causes database issues that can prevent the site from loading entirely×2
- −Reporting stops working after WordPress updates, leaving users with no data (since 10.1)×2
- −Plugin name is misleading — only one real-time stat (users online count) is actually real-time
- −Pro version offers little meaningful upgrade over the free version and is considered not worth the cost
- −Free version described as offering nothing useful
- −Developer unresponsive to support tickets after a WordPress update broke the plugin
Review trustReviews look organic
- 3.85★Verified rating — drops from 4.20★ once one-shot reviewers are removed
- 24%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 232 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-04-11★★★★★I’m very happy with the pluginRyan Miller
- 2026-03-24★★★★★need to upgrade to pro for everythingpeq42
- 2026-03-23★★★★★Causes Database Issuesgothboy
- 2025-04-03★★★★★Nice start on free, but too much “Go Pro”KlimaPic1-shot
- 2024-06-25★★★★★bagusbejomojo1-shot
- 2024-03-29★★★★★I highly recommend itjairus781-shot
- 2024-02-04★★★★★Misleading titleranka
- 2023-10-31★★★★★best free analytics plugin I've seenaxfalcon1-shot
- 2023-07-20★★★★★No longer returns any statisticsblockhater
- 2023-07-20★★★★★update 10.2 and 10.3norseafish
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics
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.
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Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
251
Prior 7-day baseline
212
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
10,639
Mean release-day peak (30d)
243
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-12.0%
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.
20%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.01
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
69%
5★ share in analyzed sample
24%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.07 → 3.85★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered