WordPress Plugin

Install HitCounters on WordPress in 2 minutes

Drop the official plugin in, paste your tracking code, and you're live. Works with any theme, no code editing required.

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Install steps

  1. Sign up free at hitcounters.com and add your WordPress site. You'll get a 16-character tracking code.
  2. Download the plugin — hitcounters-wordpress.zip
  3. In WordPress, go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, choose the .zip, install, and activate.
  4. Configure at Settings → HitCounters: paste your tracking code, save.
  5. Verify on your HitCounters Sites page — we'll check the snippet is live.

Async, async, async

Tracker loads asynchronously, doesn't block rendering, doesn't slow your site. <25 KB total.

Skip your own visits

Logged-in admins are excluded by default. Or add your IP on the HitCounters site settings page.

Head or footer

Inject the snippet in <head> (recommended) or footer if your theme blocks head injection.

Don't want a plugin?

You can also paste the snippet manually:

  • Drop it into your theme's header.php (just before </head>)
  • Or use a code-injection plugin like Insert Headers and Footers or WPCode
  • Or paste it via Google Tag Manager

The snippet looks like this (yours will have a unique tracking code):

<!-- HitCounters.com -->
<script async src="https://hitcounters.com/api/tracker.js?code=YOURCODE"></script>

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