StatCounter – Real Time Visitor Stats, Session Replay & Heatmaps

by StatCounter

Description

The Official StatCounter WordPress Plugin adds StatCounter to your site in a couple of clicks – no code editing required. StatCounter has provided reliable, real-time visitor analytics to millions of websites since 1999, and now includes session replay and heatmaps.

Session Replay

Watch recordings of real visits to your site – a video-like playback of each visitor’s clicks, scrolls and page navigation:

See exactly where visitors get stuck, confused or frustrated
Understand why visitors abandon carts, forms and signups
Watch how visitors from a specific campaign, country or referrer actually use your site
Improve support: replay a customer’s session to see what went wrong

Heatmaps

See at a glance where your visitors click – and what they ignore:

Click heatmaps highlight the links, buttons and images getting the most attention
Interactive elements like dropdowns and mobile menus are tracked too
Spot “dead clicks” on elements that look clickable but aren’t
Compare engagement across desktop and mobile

Real-Time Visitor Stats

All the classic StatCounter reports, updated in real time:

Popular pages, entry pages and exit pages
Incoming traffic: referring sites, keywords and campaigns
Visitor paths, visit length and returning visits
Country, state and city stats with a recent visitor map
Browser, OS, screen resolution and ISP stats
Magnify individual visitors for a detailed session report
Email reports, multiple site management and user access management
Invisible counter option

See all features

Pricing

Core visitor stats are free forever on the Basic plan. Session replay and heatmaps are premium features, and every new account starts with a 30-day free trial – no credit card required. View pricing

Installation

To activate the StatCounter service for your WordPress site:

Sign up with StatCounter or add a new project to your existing account
The installation process will detect your WordPress installation and provide you with your Project ID and Security Code
Install and activate this plugin, then enter your Project ID and Security Code on the plugin’s options page
The installation instructions are also available at https://statcounter.com/wordpress.org/

Screenshots

Session Replay - watch a full recording of a visitor's session, with playback controls to skip inactivity, change speed and share the recording.
Heatmaps - see exactly what visitors click and tap, broken down by page element, with separate desktop and mobile views.
Visitor Activity - real-time stats on every visit, including location, referring URL, browser, system and screen resolution.

Faq

Do I need to edit my theme or add any code?

No. Activate the plugin, enter your StatCounter Project ID and Security Code, and the tracking code is added to every page automatically.

Is StatCounter free?

Yes – the Basic plan is free forever and includes real-time visitor stats. Session replay and heatmaps are premium features, and every new account starts with a 30-day free trial (no credit card required).

Will the tracking code slow down my site?

No. The StatCounter code is lightweight and loads asynchronously, so it does not block your pages from rendering.

Do you have any other questions?

Please contact us here with your query.

Reviews

All is well

By beckymash on May 6, 2023

Appreciate response from customer service. I should be more patient. I do like the service.

Sadly it's not up to par with the service

By magen1 on April 9, 2023

The service is great but the plugin to use it in WordPress is TERRIBLE.
Don't know why this huge nonsense, is not loading at all, so is totally useless to have a plugin instead of a simple code to put in the footer. Use just the code instead.

Just give me 1 line off code, not a plugin!

By DutchMan0 (DutchApex) on March 9, 2023

Forced too use a plugin? Why? I am not getting more stats. But you are.
I need 1 line of code, not a entire plugin. Moving over to Google Analytics, bye!

BTW; stop writing fake positive reviews, nobody needs your crappy plugin.

Cannot login or view homepage to login!

By candy4321 on March 7, 2023

I have used Statcounter for over 5 years and all of the sudden I cannot view the homepage nor login. I get a text only front page, then when I hit 'login' it goes to the original site homepage (in html and grapics) but it's only in the background. What is wrong? Is it that I've never paid for an upgrade?

Are they blocking my access on purpose? I have had other people in the UK and the US try to view thier homepage and they see it with no problem so I have no option to believe that they are after 5 yrs or more just blocking me.

Zero, zilch, no support

By (loades) on August 21, 2022

Website has a contact form which acknowledges receipt of message but you never get a response. Regular emails are sent encouraging you to upgrade to Premium with a Reply to address address for queries. An auto-acknowledgement email with ticket number is sent. But the ticket is never responded to. My advice is not to install StatCounter and if you have remove the plugin.

Rubbish

By amystonebik on January 2, 2022

It's just a pain in the ass to go through a lot of step just to get it activated and eventually it won't work out. Besides it's limited to 500 page views or you gotta purchase a premium version. All these fake reviews won't help out because real users try it!!

StatCounter

By Hobgoblin (Leprechaun999) on December 28, 2020

Have tried all the analytics program without question the best is StatCounter. The volume of displayed information is astonishing;all presented in simple logical sequence so you draw you own conclusions; a little fiddly to instal in Worpress but the support to get it installed was responsive and friendly. No degree needed for this plugin. Can email out detailed daily stats...the best yet. Sorry but WP Stats have fallen by the wayside~useless, and other progs supply little of interest... I have no connection with this company...great stuff for an amateur like me..

not reliable.

By bloup on November 27, 2019

Their server was down 3 times. They have one server only, and my traffic was not counted when the server was down. it is expensive to pay 150 euros for a service that is not reliable.

Great Statcounter

By briannie on October 8, 2019

I've been using Statcounter now for around 13 years which is probably before WordPress and it's been great. It keeps getting easier to set-up and for WordPress it couldn't be easier. What I like in particular is that I can see the stats for all the websites I have running all on one page. Statcounter gives all the relevant information and I find it much easier to analyse the figures on Statcounter than I do on GA. On the odd occasion I have a query, they are very quick to respond.

magnificent !

By Hermann Matthias (matthy99) on November 5, 2018

since many years I work with Word Press and building each year several sites, and of course without plugins the WP is very naked, this plugin (STATCOUNTER) belongs to my number one on each site, during all those years I saw it growing up and getting better more and more, it is now absolute perfect, so many features - unbelievable! my advice to all: JUST INSTALL IT - you will find nothing better ! many thanks to the programmers !!!

Changelog

2.2.0

Added a dismissible review reminder for site admins (shown once, snoozable, only after tracking has been active for a couple of weeks). Updated plugin listing: new description and screenshots covering Session Replay and Heatmaps.

2.1.2

Security fix: properly escape the post author nickname in the front-end author tag script (CVE-2026-6275). Tested up to WordPress 7.0.

2.0.9

Updated security checks

2.0.8

Added additional security checks

2.0.7

Added additional sanitation to prevent XSS attacks

2.0.6

Readme fix

2.0.5

Bug fix for async JS support

2.0.4

Async JS support

2.0.2

Compatibility enhancements

2.0.1

Security enhancements

2.0

StatCounter Tags supported.

1.7.1

Removed unnecessary type attribute from script element

1.7

Updated constant definitions to be case sensitive

1.6.9

Fixed small bug with form

1.6.8

Addd StatCounter https compatible code

1.6.7

Support https/http for wordpress admin section when viewing StatCounter stats

1.6.6

Removed deprecated function calls

1.6.5

Modified url used for dashboard to not include project id when it has not been set.

1.6.4

Improved UI to give error message in dashboard when no project id has been set

1.6.3

Bug fix to prevent user entry of whitespace characters for Project ID and Security Code

1.6.2

Bug fix for Upgrade with PayPal link.

1.6.1

Correct incorrect spelling of ‘invisibility’

1.6

Removed the ‘Logging Enabled/Disabled’ option (you can deactivate the plugin instead). Updated installation instructions.

1.5

Removed option to set partition – no longer required.

1.4

Added noscript to StatCounter code – allowing non-javascript enabled visitors to be tracked.

1.3

Added counter position option. Allows you to specify the position of the counter in the header or footer.
Added ‘forced invisibility’ option. Allows you to enable an invisible counter without logging into your StatCounter account.

1.2

Fixed critical bug.

1.1

Added ability to view StatCounter Stats from within the WordPress Admin.