Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widget Plugin
TSW shows the number of visitors / hits / unique IPs in the past 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days. It also shows the number of users currently online.
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Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg… shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 600+ sites, is rated 4.4/5 and was last updated 9 years ago, and scores 37/100 on our health check.
- Small user base (600+ active installs)
- No update in 8 years
- Only tested up to WordPress 4.0 (latest is 7.1)
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Daily downloads
Download spikes usually follow a new release — each site that auto-updates counts as a download.
Rankings
Where Plugin Name: Traffic Stats… stands todayWordPress.org search rankings
Live position in the plugin search, top 100| Keyword | Position |
|---|---|
| Hit Counter | >100 |
| traffic counter | >100 |
| Traffic Widget | >100 |
| user traffic | >100 |
| visitors counter | >100 |
Version adoption
Share of active sites per release.
Rating breakdown
★★★★★★★★★★ 4.4 from 7 reviews
About Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widget Plugin
From the official readme · v1.0.2Description
TSW shows the number of visitors / hits / unique IPs in the past 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days. It also shows the number of users currently online.
It provides a robots filter, but the automatic traffic could also be considered.
Traffic Stats Widget offers language support and automatic log deletion.
Installation
- Upload the zip to ‘plugins’ directory
- Unzip (steps 1 and 2 cand also be performed automatically)
- Activate the plugin
- Configure and place the widget on your sidebar
If you need your traffic stats to be more accurate, you should use the Automatic Traffic Filter on the Widget. However, the internet is full of spiders, crawlers and all kind of robots not authenticating themselves as machines. Furthermore, it is very difficult to verify the signature of each and every robot visiting your blog… But there is a pretty good solution to this. I cannot access the root directory of your blog through WordPress install API, so you will have to do the following things by yourself:
- Create a robots.php file on the root directory of your blog: ie public_html/your-blog/
Paste the following code without // in it:
#
#
- Open .htaccess file in the same directory and paste this in it:
RewriteRule robots.txt robots.php
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Make sure you have the ‘RewriteEngine On’ clause in place…
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Make sure you have a robots.txt file, even an empty one, on the root directory
Done! Most of the robots will be filtered out by TSW.
Traffic Stats Widget does not have a settings section on Admin page. However, you can set the fields descriptions on the widget
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FAQ
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Is Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg… free?
Yes. Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg… is free to download and use from the official WordPress.org plugin directory.
Is Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg… safe to use in 2026?
Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg… shows warning signs in 2026 — compare the alternatives below before installing. It runs on 600+ sites, is rated 4.4/5 and was last updated 9 years ago, and scores 37/100 on our health check.
How many websites use Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg…?
Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg… is active on 600+ WordPress websites and has been downloaded 50,711 times since it launched in February 2013. It was downloaded 83 times in the last 30 days.
Does Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg… work with WordPress 7.1?
Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg… is officially tested up to WordPress 4.0.38, while the latest release is 7.1.2. It may still work, but try it on a staging site first.
When was Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg… last updated?
The latest version, 1.0.2, was released on November 28, 2017 (9 years ago).
Who makes Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg…?
Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg… is developed and maintained by helenthomaswp.
What are the best alternatives to Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg…?
The most popular alternatives to Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widg… are WPS Visitor Counter (10K+ installs), Hit Counter Max (300+ installs) and MWR Hit Counter (100+ installs).
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