Views Metrics

Description

Views Metrics Pro is a professional views tracking plugin for WordPress that counts real reader interest across any post type, including posts, pages, WooCommerce products, and custom post types. It turns raw view data into clear reports, exports, and on-page displays, so site owners can see what content actually performs and act on it.

Key benefits

• Understand which content, products, authors, and categories truly earn attention.
• Get clean analytics dashboards without relying on an external service.
• Display view counts on the front end with themeable counters and sparkline charts.
• Export your data any time in CSV or XML for reporting, audits, or further analysis.
• Keep tracking fast and cache-friendly, even on high-traffic sites.
• Stay privacy-minded with configurable IP storage and a cookieless tracking mode.

Main features

• Views tracking for any public post type, with or without WooCommerce.
• Analytics dashboard covering device type, referrer, and browser breakdowns.
• Reports by date, post, and author with interactive charts powered by a locally bundled Chart.js library.
• CSV and XML exports in full, summary, or per-post formats, streamed in batches to handle large datasets.
• Inline sparkline charts with the [cf-views-sparkline] shortcode.
• Most viewed authors and taxonomies shortcodes: [cf-most-viewed-authors] and [cf-most-viewed-taxonomies].
• Multiple counter display themes, including badge, minimal, and popular styles.
• Display rules, such as a minimum views threshold before the counter appears.
• Fast AJAX recording endpoint for cache-friendly view counting.
• Dynamic counter loading that bypasses page caches to show accurate live numbers.
• Client-side bot detection to keep counts meaningful.
• Configurable IP storage modes: full, anonymized, or disabled.
• Configurable throttle window so repeat visits do not inflate counts.
• Cookieless tracking mode for privacy-sensitive deployments.
• AMP compatibility.
• Admin columns and a dashboard widget for quick insights at a glance.
• Multisite-aware activation and setup.
• Opt-in, anonymized telemetry to help improve the plugin.

Who this plugin is for

• Publishers and bloggers who want reliable, self-hosted view analytics.
• WooCommerce store owners who want to see which products attract the most interest.
• Content teams and editors who need per-author or per-category performance insights.
• Agencies and developers managing client sites where privacy and data ownership matter.
• Site admins on multisite networks who need a tracking solution that activates across sites.

Compatibility

• Requires WordPress 5.0 or later.
• Requires PHP 7.4 or later.
• Works on single-site and multisite installations.
• Includes integrations for Elementor, Divi, and GenerateBlocks to sort post queries by most viewed.
• Works alongside WooCommerce when products are tracked, and also works on sites without WooCommerce.

Free and Pro

Views Metrics is available as a free edition and a Pro edition. The free edition provides the core views tracking, admin columns, and dashboard basics so you can see counts on your existing content right away. Pro extends this foundation with the advanced analytics dashboard, detailed reports, CSV and XML export, sparklines, display themes, display rules, fast AJAX recording, dynamic counter loading, page builder query integrations, author and taxonomy view tracking, AMP support, and cookieless mode. When Pro is activated it automatically replaces the free plugin and includes all of its functionality, so there is nothing to reconfigure.

Get more out of your content

If you want to finally see what your audience actually reads, buys, or browses, CF Views Metrics Pro gives you trustworthy numbers, clear reports, and flexible display tools inside your own WordPress admin. Install it, activate your license, and start turning views into decisions.