# Viewcounter for Wikipedia

> Shows how many times a Wikipedia page has been viewed.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/viewcounter-for-wikipedia](https://chrome-stats.com/d/viewcounter-for-wikipedia)

## Overview

- **ID:** `viewcounter-for-wikipedia`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** AstroRP
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 41
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-23
- **First published:** 2018-05-11
- **Size:** 19 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/viewcounter-for-wikipedia/)

## Description

Viewcounter for Wikipedia is an extension that displays how many times an article on Wikipedia has been viewed. It will only count views after 1st of July 2015, because the Wikimedia API doesn't give any data before that date.

## Rankings

- #18,001 — Overall
- #35 — wikipedia
- #103 — word count
- #136 — counter
- #175 — wiki
- #177 — country

## Permissions and access

### Host permissions

- `*://wikimedia.org/*`

### Content script matches

- `*.wikipedia.org`
- `*.wikimedia.org`
- `*.wikiwand.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: wikipedia.org, wikimedia.org, wikiwand.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/viewcounter-for-wikipedia)