Toplytics is a WordPress app, with a 5.0 average rating from 9 reviews, as of Aug 31, 2026.
Toplytics is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Presslabs. With a rating of 5.0★ from 9 reviews.
AppRanks verdict
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Toplytics is a category-leading WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. 9 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +High average rating (5.0★) signals consistent merchant satisfaction
- +Published by Presslabs — established developer track record
Cons
- −Limited review base (9) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Toplytics works
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Displays the most visited posts as a widget using data from Google Analytics. Designed to be used under high-traffic or low server resources.
About the makers This plugin was developed by the crafty people at Presslabs—the Smart Managed WordPress Hosting Platform. Here we bring high-performance hosting and business intelligence for WordPress sites. In our spare time, we contribute to the global open-source community with our plugins.
We built this plugin in 2013 to provide a less resource consuming alternative to help our clients that wanted to display a list with the most popular articles on their websites.
What is Toplytics? This plugin displays the most visited posts as a widget, using data extracted from Google Analytics. Toplytics is designed to work with high-traffic sites and all types of caching.
For more details check the official Toplytics documentation.
Why Toplytics? You can use this plugin if you want to display the most visited posts of your site in a safe and reliable manner, with no risk of downtime or slowness. The plugin is built for high-traffic sites where counting every visitor’s click loads up the DB and presents the potential of crashing the site. Of course, you need an active Google Analytics setup on your site to use this plugin.
Toplytics features:
shortcodes are now supported for easier integration into posts/pages or other widgets. [toplytics period=”week” numberposts=”3″ showviews=”true”] Check FAQ for details;
connect with Google Analytics Account using OAuth 2.0 method;
starting with the plugin version 3.0 we have switched to GA API v3. Toplytics
provides a widget displaying the most visited posts as simple links (no styling);
use the widget to display the most visited posts from the past day, week or month;
set the number of posts to be displayed between 1 and 250;
display the number of views as counted by Google Analytics;
support/translate i18n requests;
generate the list of the most visited posts dynamically with JavaScript to correctly display them with any caching mechanism/plugin;
use the custom template to display the widget.
Receiving is nicer when giving We’ve built Toplytics to make our lives easier and we’re happy to do that for other developers and site owners, too. We’d really appreciate it if you could contribute with code, tests, documentation or just share your experience with Toplytics.
Development of Toplytics happens at github.com/PressLabs/toplytics.
Issues are tracked at github.com/PressLabs/toplytics/issues.
This WordPress plugin can be found at wordpress.org/plugins/toplytics/.
Keyword rankings
Toplytics ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- 1.faqRank #465
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Frequently asked questions
What is Toplytics?
Toplytics is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 5.0-star rating from 9 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Presslabs.