james333

<p><strong>VisitStats</strong> is a lightweight, privacy-first analytics plugin for WordPress. All your data stays in your own WordPress database — we never see it, no third party sees it.</p>
<p><strong>Why VisitStats?</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>No cookies, no consent banner needed.</strong> Tracking is GDPR-friendly by default.</li>
<li><strong>Self-hosted.</strong> All data lives in your WordPress database. No external service, no Automattic, no Google.</li>
<li><strong>Lightweight.</strong> Frontend tracker is under 2KB. Loads asynchronously. Won’t slow your site.</li>
<li><strong>Zero setup.</strong> Install, activate, done. No theme edits, no tag manager, no JS snippets.</li>
<li><strong>Built for WordPress.</strong> Reports appear inside your WordPress dashboard — no separate app to log into.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Recommended for sites with up to ~10,000 daily pageviews</strong> (around 95% of WordPress sites). For very high-traffic sites, consider dedicated analytics services.</p>
<p><strong>What you get (all free, all the time):</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Real-time visitor count — see who’s on your site right now</li>
<li>Pageviews, unique visitors, sessions</li>
<li>Top pages</li>
<li>Top traffic sources (direct, search, social, AI, referral)</li>
<li>Top referrers — actual URLs sending you traffic</li>
<li>Device breakdown (desktop, mobile, tablet)</li>
<li>Browser & operating system detection</li>
<li>Configurable data retention from 1 day up to 1 year</li>
<li>Date range views: today, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 1 year</li>
<li>Engagement signals (scroll depth, time on page)</li>
<li>Cookieless visitor identification using daily-rotating salt + SHA-256 hashing</li>
<li>Bot filtering with built-in bot signature detection</li>
<li>Optional administrator / logged-in user exclusion</li>
<li>Honors Do Not Track browser signal</li>
<li>Automatic data pruning to keep your database lean</li>
<li>Rate-limited tracking endpoint protects against abuse</li>
<li>IP anonymization before hashing — actual IPs never stored</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Privacy by design</strong></p>
<p>VisitStats never:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sets cookies</li>
<li>Stores IP addresses</li>
<li>Sends data to third parties</li>
<li>Fingerprints visitors</li>
<li>Tracks across days</li>
</ul>
<p>Visitor identification uses a daily-rotating salt hashed with the (anonymized) IP and User Agent to count unique visits within a 24-hour window. The salt regenerates every 24 hours, making cross-day tracking impossible. This is the same approach used by Plausible Analytics and Fathom Analytics.</p>
<p><strong>For developers</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Clean REST API at <code>/wp-json/visitstats/v1/</code></li>
<li>Filter hooks for customizing behavior (rate limiting, bot detection, etc.)</li>
<li>PSR-style class organization</li>
<li>No external dependencies — pure WordPress core</li>
</ul>


VisitStats

Privacy-first site analytics for self-hosted sites. No cookies, no Google, no data leaves your server. Stats live in your own database.

Alin Marcu

<p>Using a widget, <a href="https://deconf.com/clicky-analytics-dashboard-wordpress/" rel="nofollow ugc">Clicky Analytics Plugin</a> displays detailed info and stats about: online users, number of visits, number of actions, bounce rates, organic searches, time average directly on your Admin Dashboard.</p>
<p>This plugin automatically inserts <a href="https://clicky.com/66508224" rel="nofollow ugc">Clicky Web Analytics</a> cookieless tracking code in each page of your website.</p>
<h4>Clicky Admin Dashboard features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>you can access your website’s basic statistics in a widget on your Administration Dashboard</li>
<li>cache feature, this improves loading speeds</li>
<li>access level settings</li>
<li>option to display top 30 pages, referrers and searches (sortable by columns)</li>
<li>option to display Clicky Analytics statistics on frontend, at the end of each article</li>
<li>has multilingual support, a POT file is available for translations.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Clicky Tracking features:</h4>
<ul>
<li>cookieless tracking</li>
<li>enable/disable Clicky Web Analytics tracking code</li>
<li>user names tracking feature</li>
<li>e-mails tracking feature</li>
<li>video actions tracking for Youtube</li>
<li>video actions tracking for HTML5</li>
<li>asynchronously load of Clicky Web Analytics tracking code</li>
</ul>
<h4>User privacy oriented features (GDPR and other):</h4>
<ul>
<li>IP address anonymization</li>
<li>global opt-out feature</li>
<li>tools to comply with GDPR requests from your visitors</li>
<li>cookie-free/cookieless tracking</li>
</ul>
<h4>Clicky Custom Dashboard:</h4>
<ul>
<li>all clicky stats are available in a custom dashboard, under your blog’s administration panel.</li>
</ul>
<p>Some features like video analytics and custom data tracking will require a <a href="https://clicky.com/66508224" rel="nofollow ugc">Clicky Analytics Pro</a> account.</p>
<h4>Further reading</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-engine-insights/" rel="ugc">Search Engine Insights</a> – The perfect tool for viewing Google Search Console stats in your WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/analytics-insights/" rel="ugc">Analytics Insights</a> – Connects Google Analytics with your WordPress site.</li>
</ul>
<h3>License</h3>
<p>This plugin it’s released under the GPLv2, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial website.</p>


Clicky Analytics

This plugin will display Clicky Web Analytics data and statistics inside your WordPress Administration Dashboard.

VisitStats vs Clicky Analytics