Title: [Plugin: WordPress.com Stats] No "views" counted & footer.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: WordPress.com Stats] No "views" counted & footer.php

 *  [kjolson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjolson/)
 * (@kjolson)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpresscom-stats-no-views-counted-footerphp/)
 * Since activating the plugin 1 month ago, no views have been counted. Am I supposed
   to add some php code to the footer.php file?

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 *  Thread Starter [kjolson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjolson/)
 * (@kjolson)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpresscom-stats-no-views-counted-footerphp/#post-1909173)
 * ANSWER – YES! According to the [faq section](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats/faq)
   of the [plugin site documentation](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stats),
   I had to “uncomment” the call to the footer in the footer.php file.
 * I changed
 * `<!--?php wp_footer(); ?-->`
 * to
 * `<!?php wp_footer(); ?>`
 * and the stats started coming in.
 *  Thread Starter [kjolson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kjolson/)
 * (@kjolson)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpresscom-stats-no-views-counted-footerphp/#post-1909291)
 * Wait, would this slow down my website?
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpresscom-stats-no-views-counted-footerphp/#post-1909295)
 * Well, I’d be lying if I didn’t say that it added a few extra MySQL queries on
   page view, but the impact should be in the millisecond range, barely noticeable
   if at all.
 * The same can be said for any stats plugin.

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpresscom-stats-no-views-counted-footerphp/#post-1909295)
 * Status: not resolved