Report - Post Views Counter 1.5.5

Does Post Views Counter work with WordPress 6.8.3 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on 2025-09-30 21:27:34 UTC.

Summary

Errors

	No PHP errors, warnings or notices
	No JavaScript exceptions
	All test pages loaded successfully
	No resource errors
	Looks good! No problems were detected.

Performance

Memory usage: 306.53 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment

WordPress version	6.8.3
PHP version	8.1.12
MySQL version	10.6.10
PHP memory limit	512M

Plugin Info

Last updated	2025-06-04T08:16:00+00:00
Active installs	200,000+
WordPress.org page	https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-views-counter/
Badges	Get badge code

Pages 9

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL	/wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=post-views-counter%2Fpost-views-counter.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=c3907b6db4
Aspect	after-activation
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.411 s
Memory usage	3.84 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Post Views

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=post-views-counter
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.226 s
Memory usage	3.8 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Post Views → Display

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=post-views-counter&tab=display
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.185 s
Memory usage	3.8 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Post Views → Display → Counting

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=post-views-counter&tab=general
Aspect	menu-item-tab
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.178 s
Memory usage	3.8 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Post Views → Reports

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=post-views-counter&tab=reports
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.187 s
Memory usage	3.8 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Post Views → Other

URL	/wp-admin/admin.php?page=post-views-counter&tab=other
Aspect	menu-item
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.151 s
Memory usage	3.8 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

URL	/
Aspect	front-page
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.203 s
Memory usage	3.58 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Dashboard ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/index.php
Aspect	new-meta-boxes
HTTP status	200
Load time	0.591 s
Memory usage	3.83 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Widgets ‹ Test site — WordPress

URL	/wp-admin/widgets.php
Aspect	new-sidebar-widgets
HTTP status	200
Load time	1.369 s
Memory usage	6.06 MiB
JS errors	None
Resource errors	None

Benchmark

URL	Load time			Memory usage
URL	Inactive	Active	Change	Inactive	Active	Change
/wp-admin/index.php	0.354 s	0.380 s	+0.026 s	3.51 MiB	3.83 MiB	+ 326.87 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php	0.207 s	0.240 s	+0.033 s	3.57 MiB	3.91 MiB	+ 346.15 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php	0.770 s	0.696 s	-0.074 s	6.06 MiB	6.45 MiB	+ 395.07 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php	0.584 s	0.679 s	+0.095 s	3.52 MiB	3.82 MiB	+ 298.76 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php	0.222 s	0.276 s	+0.054 s	3.5 MiB	3.8 MiB	+ 302.44 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php	0.322 s	0.203 s	-0.119 s	3.49 MiB	3.8 MiB	+ 310.63 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category	0.207 s	0.179 s	-0.028 s	3.5 MiB	3.82 MiB	+ 321.27 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page	0.622 s	0.640 s	+0.018 s	6.05 MiB	6.37 MiB	+ 326.91 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php	0.300 s	0.302 s	+0.002 s	3.5 MiB	3.79 MiB	+ 298.94 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php	0.459 s	0.206 s	-0.253 s	3.52 MiB	3.81 MiB	+ 298.44 KiB
/	0.314 s	0.224 s	-0.090 s	3.43 MiB	3.58 MiB	+ 146.35 KiB
Average	0.396 s	0.366 s	-0.031 s	3.97 MiB	4.27 MiB	+ 306.53 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PHP

JavaScript

Language		%	Lines of code	Comment lines	Files
	PHP	80.9%	6,426	2,593	18
	JavaScript	9.6%	761	222	13
	CSS	6.6%	525	4	3
	JSON	2.9%	230	0	6
Total			7,942	2,819	40

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code	6,449
Total complexity	1,390
Median class complexity	66.0
Median method complexity	4.0
Most complex class	Post_Views_Counter_Counter
Most complex function	Post_Views_Counter_Crawler_Detect::get_crawlers_list()

Classes	15
Methods	205
Functions	10

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Database Tables 1

wp_post_views

Options `wp_options` 6

post_views_counter_activation_date
post_views_counter_settings_display
post_views_counter_settings_general
post_views_counter_settings_other
post_views_counter_version
widget_post_views_counter_list_widget

Sidebar Widgets 1

ID	Name
post_views_counter_list_widget	Most Viewed Posts

Meta Boxes

{
    "dashboard": {
        "pvc_dashboard": {
            "title": "Post Views Counter",
            "context": "normal"
        }
    }
}

PHP Error Log

The log file is empty.

Post Views Counter 1.5.5