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Simple Post Views Count

Description

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.

Reviews

May 24, 2020
I hate Google please continue plugin development what if google never existed I really dislike this over dependence on google.
April 29, 2020
I believe we must evolve, we need to change, but what this creator did, stopping and telling users to use Google analytics? why? I hate Google, I just want to have a visit counter on all posts, I don’t care if people close the window or bots are visiting, in don’t want to have tons of information about visiting users, I want a simple counter
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Contributors & Developers

“Simple Post Views Count” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

Changelog

2.66

  • Deprecation in favor of Google Analytics

2.65

  • Last working update

2.20

  • Only php >= 5.4 supported

1.0

  • First release.