Most view counters add a database write to every page load, break behind a page cache, or store more visitor data than you ever wanted. Meanwhile your editors still need an honest answer to a simple question: which articles are actually being read?

Bubuku Post View Count counts a visit with a tiny script that fires after the page has loaded, through a public REST endpoint. It stays out of the rendering path, so Core Web Vitals are not affected, and it works behind full-page caching. Totals and daily history live in the plugin’s own indexed tables.

Know what is being read

Summary cards: total views, last 30 days (and the change vs. the previous 30), AI referrals and AI bot crawling.
Views over time by day, week or month, plus “Rising & falling” content.
Most viewed and stale content, and sortable “Views” and “Last view” columns in the list tables.
A dashboard widget with a 7-day trend, rendered from a background snapshot.

See where traffic comes from

Optional device and referrer breakdown (direct, search, social, AI assistants).
Optional tracking of 63 known AI crawlers, kept apart from human views.

Show views to your readers

Use the [bbk_post_views] shortcode or the “Bubuku · Vistas del post” block. The total is also mirrored to the views post meta.

Built for privacy and performance

No raw IP address or User-Agent is stored, Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control are honored, and you choose which content types count and which roles or bots are excluded. WP-CLI and multisite are supported.

More information in Spanish: Show the most viewed Articles, without affecting the loading speed

SUPPORT

Need help or have a suggestion?
Please use the official WordPress.org Support Forum for any issues related to the plugin.

Want to know more?
There is more to it than a view counter: the plugin page explains how it works, what it records and what it deliberately leaves out. For anything else, or to get in touch with the development team, visit our official website.

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ABOUT BUBUKU_CODE

We develop custom solutions for WordPress focused on performance, accessibility, and maintainable code. Our work includes plugins, themes, and integrations designed to improve the daily workflow of marketing and content teams.

Privacy

This plugin never stores the visitor’s raw IP address or User-Agent. To avoid duplicate views it keeps keyed, non-reversible HMAC tokens (derived from the post, network address and User-Agent) for up to 30 minutes, then deletes them. Reporting data is aggregated: total views and last-viewed date per post, daily views per post and, if you enable the optional session dimensions, a daily breakdown by device-width bucket and referrer category (never the raw width or referrer URL).

If the browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, the optional device and referrer breakdown is skipped for that visit (default; can be turned off in Settings Post View Count). Optional AI crawler tracking (off by default) is aggregated by day and bot name, in its own table.

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