james333

VisitStats 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.
Why VisitStats?
<ul>
<li>No cookies, no consent banner needed. Tracking is GDPR-friendly by default.</li>
<li>Self-hosted. All data lives in your WordPress database. No external service, no Automattic, no Google.</li>
<li>Lightweight. Frontend tracker is under 2KB. Loads asynchronously. Won’t slow your site.</li>
<li>Zero setup. Install, activate, done. No theme edits, no tag manager, no JS snippets.</li>
<li>Built for WordPress. Reports appear inside your WordPress dashboard — no separate app to log into.</li>
</ul>
Recommended for sites with up to ~10,000 daily pageviews (around 95% of WordPress sites). For very high-traffic sites, consider dedicated analytics services.
What you get (all free, all the time):
<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>
Privacy by design
VisitStats never:
<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>
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.
For developers
<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.

loglyuk

Loglyuk Privacy Analytics brings cookieless, privacy-first web analytics to your WordPress site — a lightweight alternative to Google Analytics that measures your traffic without cookies, without storing personal data, and without a consent banner. You see your stats right inside the WordPress dashboard, and the tracking script is under 1 KB, so it won’t drag down your page speed or Core Web Vitals.
👉 <a href="https://app.logly.uk/demo" rel="nofollow ugc">Try our live demo</a> — explore the full dashboard with real data, no signup required.
<h4>Why Loglyuk?</h4>
<ul>
<li>See your stats inside WordPress — pageviews trend, top pages, referrers and country/device/browser charts right in wp-admin, rendered natively (no iframe)</li>
<li>Under 1 KB — zero impact on your Lighthouse score or Core Web Vitals</li>
<li>No cookie banner required — no cookies, no persistent identifiers, GDPR compliant by design</li>
<li>Works with ad blockers — including Brave Shields and uBlock Origin</li>
<li>Active time on page — measures real reading time, not just tab-open time</li>
<li>Free plan — 10,000 pageviews/month, forever, no credit card</li>
</ul>
<h4>What you get</h4>
<ul>
<li>Pageviews, sessions, visitors</li>
<li>Top pages and referrers</li>
<li>Countries, devices, browsers</li>
<li>Active visitors right now</li>
<li>Week-over-week comparison</li>
</ul>
<h4>Setup</h4>
<ol>
<li>Install and activate the plugin</li>
<li>Go to Loglyuk in the WordPress admin sidebar</li>
<li>Enter your Site ID from <a href="https://app.logly.uk" rel="nofollow ugc">app.logly.uk</a></li>
<li>Done — no tag manager, no configuration file</li>
</ol>
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin loads a tracking script from Loglyuk (https://logly.uk) and sends pageview data to Loglyuk’s servers so you can view analytics for your site. Loglyuk is a privacy-first web analytics service operated at logly.uk.
What is sent and when: every time a visitor loads a page on your site, the tracker script (loaded from <code>https://logly.uk/p.js</code>) sends a small GET request to <code>https://logly.uk/e</code> containing only:
<ul>
<li>the page path being viewed</li>
<li>an anonymous session hash (derived from IP + User-Agent + a daily-rotating salt; not reversible, not stored)</li>
<li>the visitor’s country (resolved from IP at the edge; the IP itself is never stored)</li>
<li>device, browser and OS family (e.g. “Mobile / Chrome / Android”)</li>
<li>the referrer URL, if any</li>
<li>your Site ID (so Loglyuk knows which property the pageview belongs to)</li>
</ul>
No cookies are set, no personal data is stored, and no consent banner is required under GDPR or PECR.
When this happens: only after you configure the plugin with a Site ID in the Loglyuk admin page. Without a Site ID, the plugin sends nothing.
Reading your analytics in wp-admin: when you open the Loglyuk admin page, the plugin fetches your aggregated, non-personal statistics (totals, top pages and referrers) from Loglyuk’s public API at <code>https://app.logly.uk/api/public/<your-site-id>/stats</code> and <code>/breakdown</code>, and renders them natively in WordPress. These read-only requests run only on the plugin’s admin page and only return data you have explicitly marked Public in your Loglyuk settings.
Terms and privacy policy:
<ul>
<li>Terms of Service: https://logly.uk/terms</li>
<li>Privacy Policy: https://logly.uk/privacy</li>
</ul>

Loglyuk Privacy Analytics

Cookieless, privacy-first web analytics — a lightweight Google Analytics alternative. No cookie banner, GDPR-ready, under 1 KB.

VisitStats vs Loglyuk Privacy Analytics