Toplytics for WordPress

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);