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Plugin Name: Traffic Stats Widget Plugin

by helenthomaswp · Admin & Utilities

TSW lets your users know how much traffic you have on your blog. It counts pages visited, hits and unique IPs on your blog and shows it in a widget.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
46 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 77/100
Support 70/100

46 health vs 54 average across 3,790 Admin & Utilities plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 8+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 4.0.38, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

38 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 3/100
Rating quality 59/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 3196 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+71% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

77

now · peak 94

8030d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Plugin Name: Traffic · #8475 you Traffic flash counte · #24681 Plugin Name: Traffic · #8280 MC Visitor Tally · #14493

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.4Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

133per 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

No release in a year
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

0

releases in the last 12 months

11.5y ago

latest release · v1.0.2

2

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

1.0.2 · 11.5y ago1.0.1 · 11.8y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 100% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v1.0 100%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “600+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
600–700 ≈650

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2021-12-03 · 1,418 observations

600Installs · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
1.0.2
Last updated
8.8y ago
Added
2013-02-12 · 13 yrs old
Requires WP
2.8.0
Tested up to
4.0.38
Requires PHP

Recent reviews

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  1. oldmankit
    8.3y ago

    Hasn’t been updated in three years; no-longer works on my site.

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  2. smilie1
    10.7y ago

    Would like to remove the Text Online Now: count feature. It is not needed on my site. Without having to update Version 1.0.2, is there a way to modify the php to remove that feature?

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  3. zihan_bd
    10.7y ago

    Thanks for the plugin. But need to add/update some options. Please, support visitor status & IP to WP Dashboard.

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  4. KevinX
    11.6y ago

    Exactly what I was searching for 🙂 Good Numbers that show the true count. Would be nice if some numbers or even tabs could be excluded by option. I dont have much benefit comparing the “hits” and “unique” tabs. I have combined this plugin with a graph from “google analytics for wordpress” plugin.

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  5. grnaomi
    11.9y ago

    Has been working fine with me. I use wordpress 4.0 with studiopress genesis framework. Thank you for the plugin author.

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  6. televizor
    12.1y ago

    Keep up the good work!

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  7. helenthomaswp
    13.5y ago

    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: 1. Create a robots.php file on the root directory of your blog: ie public_html/your-blog/ Paste the following code in it: <?php session_start(); $_SESSION['wtcrobot'] = 1; echo file_get_contents('robots.txt'); exit; ?> 1. Open .htaccess file in the same directory and paste this in it: RewriteRule robots\.txt robots.php 1. Make sure you have the ‘RewriteEngine On’ clause in place… 1. 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.

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Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 7.2.16 · WP 5.3

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-04-26 700+ → 600+ down after 155 days in tier
  2. 2025-11-22 800+ → 700+ down after 304 days in tier
  3. 2025-01-22 900+ → 800+ down after 7 days in tier
  4. 2025-01-15 800+ → 900+ up after 1 days in tier
  5. 2025-01-14 900+ → 800+ down after 187 days in tier
  6. 2024-07-11 1K+ → 900+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2024-07-10 900+ → 1K+ up after 4 days in tier
  8. 2024-07-06 1K+ → 900+ down after 3 days in tier

Competes with

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