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<p>SFR Analytics is a self-hosted analytics plugin for WordPress. All visitor data is stored in your own database — nothing is sent to third-party services. No cookies, no external scripts, no tracking pixels.</p>
<p>Get a clear picture of your site’s traffic without compromising your visitors’ privacy.</p>
<p>Need a central multi-site dashboard? Use the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/sfr-analytics-hub/" rel="ugc">SFR Analytics Hub</a> plugin to aggregate analytics from multiple WordPress sites.</p>
<h4>Dashboard at a Glance</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Views, Visitors, Sessions</strong> — core metrics with period-over-period comparison</li>
<li><strong>Bounce Rate & Pages per Session</strong> — engagement indicators</li>
<li><strong>Traffic Over Time</strong> — interactive line chart with date range presets</li>
<li><strong>Top Content</strong> — your most viewed posts and pages</li>
<li><strong>Traffic Sources</strong> — where your visitors are coming from</li>
<li><strong>Top Referring Sites</strong> — individual domains sending you traffic</li>
<li><strong>Entry & Exit Pages</strong> — first and last pages in each visit</li>
<li><strong>Device Types</strong> — desktop, mobile and tablet breakdown</li>
<li><strong>Browsers & Operating Systems</strong> — which browsers and OS your visitors use</li>
<li><strong>Geographic Distribution</strong> — visitor countries (only available if using a CDN like Cloudflare that provides country headers; all other tracking works without a CDN)</li>
<li><strong>Campaign Performance</strong> — UTM campaign results with source/medium drill-down</li>
<li><strong>Online Now</strong> — on-demand live visitor count with optional online-only auto-refresh in the dashboard</li>
</ul>
<p>All dashboard sections are collapsible — show only what matters to you.</p>
<h4>Campaign Manager & UTM Link Builder</h4>
<p>Plan and track marketing campaigns without leaving WordPress:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Create campaigns</strong> with notes and track their performance over time</li>
<li><strong>Build UTM links</strong> with a visual tool — pick a page, choose source/medium/campaign, and get a ready-to-use URL</li>
<li><strong>Smart page picker</strong> — search across all your content types with post type and category filtering</li>
<li><strong>Preset sources and mediums</strong> — common options (Facebook, Google, newsletter, etc.) with clear descriptions</li>
<li><strong>Save generated links</strong> for quick reference and reuse</li>
<li><strong>Custom sources and mediums</strong> — add your own and they’re saved for next time</li>
<li><strong>Auto-lowercase</strong> campaign names to prevent data fragmentation</li>
</ul>
<h4>Smart Bot Detection</h4>
<p>Not all traffic is human. SFR Analytics filters out noise automatically:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>200+ known bot patterns</strong> — search engines, AI crawlers, SEO tools, monitoring bots, headless browsers, security scanners and more</li>
<li><strong>JavaScript verification</strong> — a lightweight inline script confirms real browser execution, so bots that don’t run JavaScript are never counted</li>
<li><strong>Missing header detection</strong> — flags requests without User-Agent or Accept-Language headers</li>
<li><strong>Filterable patterns</strong> — add your own via the <code>sfran_bot_patterns</code> filter</li>
</ul>
<p>The dashboard shows you exactly how much traffic was filtered: total requests vs verified human visits.</p>
<h4>Privacy First</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>No cookies</strong> — visitor identification uses anonymous hashed fingerprints</li>
<li><strong>No PII stored</strong> — IP addresses are hashed (SHA-256), never stored in plain text</li>
<li><strong>Optional IP anonymisation</strong> — strip the last octet before hashing</li>
<li><strong>Do Not Track support</strong> — respects the browser DNT header when enabled</li>
<li><strong>Local storage only</strong> — your data never leaves your server</li>
<li><strong>Configurable retention</strong> — automatically delete data after 30 to 3,650 days</li>
<li><strong>GDPR-ready privacy text</strong> — copy-paste paragraph for your privacy policy</li>
</ul>
<h4>IP & Country Filtering</h4>
<ul>
<li>Exclude specific IP addresses or CIDR ranges (e.g. <code>192.168.1.0/24</code>)</li>
<li>One-click “Ignore My IP” button</li>
<li>Exclude entire countries by country code</li>
<li>Exclude logged-in users by role (administrators, editors, etc.)</li>
</ul>
<h4>REST API</h4>
<p>A full set of authenticated REST API endpoints lets you access your analytics data programmatically:</p>
<ul>
<li><code>/sfran/v1/summary</code> — overview stats with optional comparison</li>
<li><code>/sfran/v1/top-content</code> — most viewed content with pagination</li>
<li><code>/sfran/v1/traffic-sources</code> — referrer breakdown</li>
<li><code>/sfran/v1/time-series</code> — daily views/visitors/sessions</li>
<li><code>/sfran/v1/campaigns</code> — campaign performance</li>
<li><code>/sfran/v1/entry-pages</code> and <code>/sfran/v1/exit-pages</code></li>
<li><code>/sfran/v1/referrers</code> — top referring domains</li>
<li><code>/sfran/v1/devices</code>, <code>/sfran/v1/browsers</code>, <code>/sfran/v1/geographic</code></li>
<li><code>/sfran/v1/online-now</code> — current active visitor count for the last N minutes (default 5)</li>
</ul>
<p>All endpoints require authentication (WordPress Application Passwords or other REST API auth) and the <code>manage_options</code> capability. Use these to build custom dashboards, export data, or integrate with other tools.</p>
<h4>Performance</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Batch processing</strong> — pageviews are buffered and written in batches, reducing database load</li>
<li><strong>Indexed tables</strong> — optimised queries for fast dashboard rendering</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight frontend</strong> — a single inline verification script, no external files loaded for visitors</li>
<li><strong>No impact on page speed</strong> — tracking uses <code>navigator.sendBeacon</code> (non-blocking)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Works with SFR Analytics Hub</h4>
<p>SFR Analytics collects data on each individual site.</p>
<p>For cross-site reporting, install the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/sfr-analytics-hub/" rel="ugc">SFR Analytics Hub</a> on your main site.</p>
<p>With SFR Analytics Hub, you can also view <strong>live online visitors across all connected sites</strong> from one central dashboard.</p>
<p>The WordPress.org Hub edition supports up to 3 connected sites.</p>
<p>Need more than 3 sites with the same workflow? See <a href="https://supportfromrichard.co.uk/sfr-analytics/" rel="nofollow ugc">SFR Analytics Hub Pro</a>.</p>


SFR Analytics

Lightweight, privacy-focused WordPress analytics. Track pageviews, visitors, campaigns and more — all data stored locally in your own database.

pluginkollektiv

<p>Statify provides a straightforward and compact access to the number of site views. It is privacy-friendly as it uses neither cookies nor a third party.</p>
<p>An interactive chart is followed by lists of the most common reference sources and target pages. The period of statistics and length of lists can be set directly in the dashboard widget.</p>
<h3>Data Privacy</h3>
<p>In direct comparison to statistics services such as <em>Google Analytics</em>, <em>WordPress.com Stats</em> and <em>Matomo (Piwik)</em> <em>Statify</em> doesn’t process and store personal data as e.g. IP addresses – <em>Statify</em> counts site views, not visitors.</p>
<p>Absolute privacy compliance coupled with transparent procedures: A locally in WordPress created database table consists of only four fields (ID, date, source, target) and can be viewed at any time, cleaned up and cleared by the administrator.</p>
<p>Due to this tracking approach, Statify is 100% compliant with GDPR and serves as an lightweight alternative to other tracking services.</p>
<h3>Display of the widget</h3>
<p>The plugin configuration can be changed directly in the <em>Statify</em> Widget on the dashboard by clicking the <em>Configure</em> link.</p>
<p>The amount of links shown in the <em>Statify</em> Widget can be set as well as the option to only count views from today. Of course, older entries are not deleted when changing this setting.</p>
<p>The statistics for the dashboard widget are cached for four minutes.</p>
<h3>Period of data saving</h3>
<p><em>Statify</em> stores the data only for a limited period (default: two weeks), longer intervals can be selected as option in the widget. Data which is older than the selected period is deleted by a daily cron job.</p>
<p>An increase in the database volume can be expected because all statistic values are collected and managed in the local WordPress database (especially if you increase the period of data saving).</p>
<h3>JavaScript tracking for caching compatibility</h3>
<p>For compatibility with caching plugins like <a href="http://cachify.de" rel="nofollow ugc">Cachify</a> <em>Statify</em> offers an optional switchable tracking via JavaScript. This function allows reliable count of cached blog pages.</p>
<p>For this to work correctly, the active theme has to call <code>wp_footer()</code>, typically in a file named <code>footer.php</code>.</p>
<h3>Skip tracking for spam referrers</h3>
<p>The comment blacklist can be enabled to skip tracking for views with a referrer URL listed in comment blacklist, i. e. which considered as spam.</p>
<h3>Support</h3>
<p>If you’ve problems or think you’ve found a bug (e.g. you’re experiencing unexpected behavior), please post at the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/statify" rel="ugc">support forums</a>.</p>
<h3>Contribute</h3>
<ul>
<li>Active development of this plugin is handled <a href="https://github.com/pluginkollektiv/statify" rel="nofollow ugc">on GitHub</a>.</li>
<li>Pull requests for documented bugs are highly appreciated.</li>
<li>If you want to help us translate this plugin you can do so <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/statify" rel="nofollow ugc">on WordPress Translate</a>.</li>
</ul>


Statify


Simple an clean statistic plugin. Just works.


Just simple stats.


A simple stats package that runs on your own site, so you aren't sending visitor data to some third party service just to count page views. Not as full-featured as Jetpack Stats, but much more privacy-friendly! Good for the basic use case of "where are most of my visitors coming from and what are the reading the most?" Works with ClassicPress too!


Simple, privacy-friendly stats

Visitor statistics for WordPress with focus on data protection, transparency and clarity. Perfect as a widget in your WordPress Dashboard.

SFR Analytics vs Statify