smallbusinessanalytics

<p><strong>Alfred</strong> is the easy website analytics plugin for small business owners — not marketers, not developers, not data nerds. It connects your WordPress site to <strong>Small Business Analytics</strong> (smallbusinessanalytics.io) and tells you who’s visiting, where they’re coming from, and what’s actually working — all explained in plain English. No jargon, no complicated dashboards, no Google Analytics confusion.</p>
<p>If you’ve ever opened Google Analytics, seen 47 menus, gotten overwhelmed, and closed the tab — this plugin is for you.</p>
<p>This plugin connects your WordPress site to your SBA dashboard. Install it, paste in your tracking code, and you’re done. No theme files to edit, no Google Tag Manager, no developer needed.</p>
<h4>Why use this instead of Google Analytics?</h4>
<p>Because Google Analytics was built for marketers at big companies. Most small business owners open GA4, see 47 menus, get confused, and close the tab.</p>
<p>SBA tells you things like:</p>
<ul>
<li>“Your TikTok video on Tuesday brought in 23 new visitors”</li>
<li>“Most of your visitors leave on the contact page — that’s where you might be losing customers”</li>
<li>“Your busiest hour is 2pm on weekdays — that’s a good time to post on social”</li>
</ul>
<p>The dashboard is in plain English. Numbers are explained in plain English. An AI assistant named Alfred can answer questions like “is my Instagram working?” — and actually answer them.</p>
<h4>What this plugin does</h4>
<p>It does exactly one thing: adds your SBA tracking code to every page of your site. That’s it.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Zero performance impact</strong> — the tracker is one tiny script that loads asynchronously (it doesn’t block your site from rendering).</li>
<li><strong>No data stored on your site</strong> — the plugin doesn’t create database tables, doesn’t set cookies, doesn’t write to your filesystem.</li>
<li><strong>No theme editing required</strong> — pop in your tracking code, save, done.</li>
<li><strong>Works with every WordPress theme</strong> — uses the standard <code>wp_head</code> hook.</li>
<li><strong>Your data is yours</strong> — we never sell, share, or use your visitor data for anything but showing it to you. Total privacy, always.</li>
</ul>
<h4>You’ll need an SBA account</h4>
<p>This plugin connects your site to Small Business Analytics, which is a <strong>free 7-day trial, then a paid service</strong> (plans start at $9/month). <strong>No credit card is required to start</strong> — sign up at <a href="https://smallbusinessanalytics.io" rel="nofollow ugc">smallbusinessanalytics.io</a> (about a minute) and you’ll get your tracking code right away. Paste it into the plugin settings and you’re tracking. After 7 days you add a card to keep going; if you don’t, your trial simply ends and you’re never charged automatically.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to Small Business Analytics (https://smallbusinessanalytics.io), a third-party website analytics service, to enable visitor tracking on your site.</p>
<p><strong>What it does:</strong><br />
The plugin loads a small JavaScript tracker file from <code>https://app.smallbusinessanalytics.io/tracker.js</code> on every public-facing page of your site. When a visitor browses your site, the tracker sends anonymous visit data (page URL, referrer, device type, approximate location based on IP, time on page) to <code>https://app.smallbusinessanalytics.io/api/track</code> so it can appear in your SBA dashboard.</p>
<p><strong>What data is sent:</strong><br />
– Page URL and title<br />
– Referring URL (where the visitor came from)<br />
– Device type (mobile, tablet, desktop) and browser<br />
– Approximate location (city/region/country, derived from IP — IP itself is not stored long-term)<br />
– Time on page, scroll depth, basic engagement signals<br />
– A randomly generated visitor ID stored in the browser’s localStorage (not a cookie) for returning-visitor recognition</p>
<p><strong>What data is NOT sent:</strong><br />
– Personally identifying information (no names, emails, phone numbers, account info)<br />
– Form contents, passwords, or sensitive page content<br />
– Anything from logged-in WordPress admin pages — the tracker only runs on public pages</p>
<p><strong>Terms and Privacy:</strong><br />
– Terms of Service: https://smallbusinessanalytics.io/terms<br />
– Privacy Policy: https://smallbusinessanalytics.io/privacy</p>
<p>You need a Small Business Analytics account (free trial available, paid plans start at $9/month) for the tracker to actually log visits to a dashboard you can view. The plugin itself can be installed without an account, but won’t display data anywhere until you add your tracking code.</p>


Alfred AI – Plain-English Website Analytics for Small Business

Easy website analytics for small business owners — plain-English visitor stats and AI insights. A Google Analytics alternative.

fairanalytics

<p>Fair Analytics is a privacy and legally compliant alternative to Google Analytics. Made in germany. This plugin enables Fair Analytics on your website. It integrates a small javascript code into the header of your page. With this Javascript code we analyze your anonymized user data. You can then view the analyses on <a href="https://fairanalytics.de" rel="nofollow ugc">www.fairanalytics.de</a>.</p>
<h3>DSGVO/GDPR/RGPD-compliant alternative to Google Analytics</h3>
<p>Avoid costly data breaches. You can use Fair Analytics in compliance with european data protection standards and meet the requirements of national and european law.</p>
<h3>User metrics</h3>
<p>Fair Analytics provides the most important tracking metrics and gives you important insights into your users and their usage of your website:</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-F7-z3EHfzM?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<ul>
<li>Page views</li>
<li>Landing Pages</li>
<li>Exit Pages</li>
<li>Bounce Rate</li>
<li>Referrers</li>
<li>Countries</li>
<li>Cities</li>
<li>Operating system</li>
<li>Device</li>
<li>Browser</li>
<li>Screen Resolution</li>
<li>UTMs (for marketing tracking)</li>
<li>
<p>Browser Language</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Realtime analytics</p>
</li>
<li>Dark mode</li>
<li>Export Data to CSV</li>
<li>Filters</li>
<li>Login log</li>
<li>Two-Factor Authentication</li>
<li>Exclude IPs</li>
</ul>
<h3>Lightweight tracking (optional)</h3>
<p>You can choose lightweight tracking that uses no cookies, no local storage, and no identifiers for visitors. The lightweight tracking script is less than 6 kB in size.</p>
<h3>Servers and company in germany</h3>
<p>We store the analysis data exclusively on secure german servers. The servers run on green electricity, have an availability of 99.99% and are certified according to ISO 27001. We are a german company with german headquarters. As such, we are not covered by the United States Cloud Act and cannot be required to share user data.</p>
<h3>Anonymous user statistics</h3>
<p>On your main dashboard you will find the most important user statistics at a glance. And we don’t store IP-Adresses of your users.<br />
The collected user data is completely anonymized on our servers. It is not possible to “reverse engineer” this anonymized data. Neither from us nor from third parties. The analysis data are also not passed on or used for own purposes.</p>
<h3>Interaction recordings (videos)</h3>
<p>Interaction recordings are playbacks of users scrolling, moving and clicking on your site. With interaction recordings you can understand how users behave on your site and where they have problems.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bk2iAmW8YDo?version=3&rel=0&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>Goal tracking</h3>
<p>You can track custom events like link clicks, button clicks, form submissions, page visits etc.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6m3Q5wuypo4?version=3&rel=0&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>Heat maps</h3>
<p>Stop guessing where users click and find out how to improve your product fast. Heatmaps visually show you where users click, move, and scroll on your website. You can compare desktop, tablet, and mobile devices to see the differences in behavior.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WAgUc2XFe78?version=3&rel=0&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>User journeys</h3>
<p>Evaluating your visitors behaviour and repeated actions by analyze their past sessions. Including the flow of the visited pages and their actions.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4PC6i2UZN4s?version=3&rel=0&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>Team members</h3>
<p>With just a few clicks, you can grant team members and clients access to the statistics. This way, you can conveniently manage multiple projects with just one account and share statistics as needed.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r5jH5BUrB-A?version=3&rel=0&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>Filters</h3>
<p>You can filter your analysis results with several parameters to get only the results that are important to you.</p>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k3xmcLfWMSE?version=3&rel=0&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h3>API included</h3>
<p>With our API you can retrieve your stats programmatically. Each request is authenticated with an API key using the Bearer Authentication method.</p>
<h3>More Information</h3>
<p>For more Information visit our website <a href="https://fairanalytics.de" rel="nofollow ugc">www.fairanalytics.de</a></p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>If you have any questions send us a message via our <a href="https://fairanalytics.de/contact" rel="nofollow ugc">contact form</a></p>


Google Analytics alternative – Privacy and legally compliant – Fair Analytics

Fair Analytics is a privacy and legally compliant Google Analytics alternative. Made in germany. DSGVO/GDPR/RGPD compliant.

Alfred AI – Plain-English Website Analytics for Small Business vs Google Analytics alternative – Privacy and legally compliant – Fair Analytics