Tim Boulley

BT Visitor Insights is a privacy-friendly, self-hosted analytics plugin. Everything stays on your server — no Google Analytics, no third-party tracking scripts, no data sent to any external analytics platform.
Activate it and your dashboard starts filling with real visitor data: where they’re from, what pages they viewed, what device they’re on, and how long they’ve been around.
<h4>Why use it?</h4>
<ul>
<li>No third-party tracking. All visitor data stays in your WordPress database.</li>
<li>Zero configuration. Activate the plugin and data starts collecting immediately.</li>
<li>Lightweight. No bulky frontend tracking script — tracking happens server-side, so it works alongside any caching plugin.</li>
<li>Real-time. See who’s on your site right now (last 15 minutes).</li>
<li>Respectful. Honors the Do Not Track browser header and skips logged-in administrators.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Real-time active-visitor count</li>
<li>IP geolocation — city, region, country, country flag</li>
<li>Page view tracking with titles and referrers</li>
<li>Device detection — desktop, mobile, tablet</li>
<li>Browser and operating system breakdown</li>
<li>Top pages, top referrers, top countries</li>
<li>30-day visual bar chart</li>
<li>Per-visitor history — click any IP to see every page they viewed</li>
<li>Date-range filters — today, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, all time</li>
<li>Auto-cleanup — old data is purged based on your configurable retention period (default 90 days)</li>
<li>IP exclusion list and IP anonymization (in Settings)</li>
<li>CSV export of visitors and page views</li>
<li>Dashboard widget on the WP admin home screen</li>
<li>Admin bar badge with live visitor count</li>
<li>Skips bots, crawlers, and logged-in admins</li>
<li>Respects the Do Not Track header</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro version</h4>
A <a href="https://boulleytechnology.ca/bt-visitor-insights.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro version</a> adds:
<ul>
<li>Email digests — daily or weekly HTML report with stats, top pages, and trend comparisons</li>
<li>Traffic-spike alerts — get an email when page views exceed your normal baseline</li>
<li>Geo-blocking — block or redirect visitors from specific countries</li>
<li>Scheduled CSV exports — weekly or monthly automated email exports</li>
<li>Goals & conversions — track URL-based goals and unique converters</li>
<li>REST API access — query stats, visitors, and page views via /wp-json/btvi/v1/</li>
<li>Multi-site rollup — aggregate stats from multiple WordPress sites in one dashboard</li>
<li>White-label dashboard — customize the menu label and page title for client sites</li>
<li>Unlimited data retention — keep visitor history forever</li>
</ul>
The Pro version is sold separately and is not required to use this free plugin.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin uses the ip-api.com geolocation API to look up the city, region, and country for each new visitor IP address. This request is made server-side from your WordPress installation when a visitor is first seen.
<ul>
<li>Service: ip-api.com</li>
<li>What is sent: the visitor’s IP address</li>
<li>When: once per unique visitor IP, server-side</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal</li>
<li>Terms of service: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal</li>
</ul>
No data is sent to Boulley Technology or any other third party.

BT Visitor Insights

Lightweight, self-hosted visitor analytics with IP geolocation, page views, device detection, and a real-time dashboard. No third-party scripts.

jinaldesai

FlareStats brings your CloudFlare web analytics data directly into the WordPress admin. No third-party tracking services, no cookies — just privacy-preserving analytics from Cloudflare.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Dashboard Widget — A compact summary widget on the WordPress Dashboard.</li>
<li>Full Analytics Screen — Dedicated admin page with a 7-day daily chart, top 5 pages, and top 3 countries.</li>
<li>Last 7 Days — Data always covers the rolling last 7 days.</li>
<li>Cloudflare GraphQL API — Connects to the Cloudflare GraphQL Analytics API using your API Token.</li>
<li>Lightweight & Dependency-Free — No external JavaScript frameworks; charts are CSS-based.</li>
<li>Caching — API responses cached via WordPress transients to minimise API calls.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>A <a href="https://cloudflare.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Cloudflare</a> account with Web Analytics enabled for your site.</li>
<li>A Cloudflare API Token with Account Analytics: Read permission.</li>
<li>Your Cloudflare Account ID.</li>
<li>Your FlareStats Site Tag (optional but recommended for multi-site accounts).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Configuration</h4>
<ol>
<li>In your Cloudflare dashboard go to My Profile → API Tokens and create a token with Account Analytics: Read permission scoped to your account.</li>
<li>Note your Account ID (visible in the Cloudflare dashboard right-hand sidebar).</li>
<li>Go to Analytics & Logs → Web Analytics, select your site, and copy the Site Tag from the site settings (optional).</li>
<li>In WordPress go to FlareStats → Settings and enter your credentials.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Privacy / Tracking Disclosure</h4>
FlareStats displays analytics data inside WordPress by requesting reports from Cloudflare Web Analytics.
What this plugin sends to external services
<ul>
<li>This plugin sends authenticated requests from your WordPress site to the Cloudflare GraphQL API (<code>api.cloudflare.com</code>) using your configured API token, account ID, and site tag (if provided).</li>
<li>Request parameters include reporting date ranges and query fields needed to fetch analytics metrics.</li>
</ul>
What this plugin receives
<ul>
<li>Aggregated analytics data such as pageviews, visits, top pages, top countries, browser/device, and referrer/source metrics.</li>
<li>This plugin displays those metrics in the WordPress admin dashboard and analytics screens.</li>
</ul>
What this plugin stores in WordPress
<ul>
<li>Plugin settings in <code>wp_options</code> (for example API token, account ID, site tag, cache duration).</li>
<li>Cached analytics responses in WordPress transients to reduce API calls.</li>
</ul>
Personal data handling
<ul>
<li>This plugin does not create its own visitor tracking cookies.</li>
<li>Visitor analytics collection is performed by Cloudflare Web Analytics on your site.</li>
<li>This plugin does not add separate per-visitor profile records in WordPress for analytics.</li>
</ul>
Data retention / access
<ul>
<li>Cached analytics data is temporary and expires according to the configured cache duration.</li>
<li>Plugin settings and analytics screens are only accessible to users with appropriate admin capabilities (for example <code>manage_options</code>).</li>
</ul>
Third-party policies
<ul>
<li>Cloudflare Privacy Policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/</li>
<li>Cloudflare Terms: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/</li>
</ul>
Site owners are responsible for ensuring their site’s public privacy policy accurately describes how Cloudflare Web Analytics is used.

FlareStats

Display CloudFlare Web Analytics data — pageviews, visitors, top pages and top countries — right in your WordPress admin.

BT Visitor Insights vs FlareStats