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<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.

QuarkA

<p>QA Assistants goes beyond analytics — it’s a companion that helps your data speak, with Assistants that reveal insights you can act on.</p>
<p>Each Assistant offers a unique way to look at your site — from quick overviews to social trends and growth insights.<br />
You can still explore familiar tools like heatmaps, session replays, and reports — and Assistants will gradually bring more context to them.</p>
<p>No complex setup or technical skills needed.<br />
QA Assistants makes discovering your site’s stories simple, visual, and a little fun too.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<h3>Assistants — your data-driven companions to explore your site</h3>
<p>Assistants help you understand your site through data — in a clear and easy-to-understand way.<br />
Each Assistant focuses on a different perspective, such as traffic trends, content performance, or user behavior.<br />
More Assistants will continue to be added over time, expanding what you can explore and understand.</p>
<h4>In-dashboard Assistants</h4>
<p>Assistants can be downloaded from the official site and appear in the plugin dashboard.<br />
They provide deeper insights and reports based on accumulated data.</p>
<h4>On-page Assistant</h4>
<p>The built-in <strong>Page Analysis Assistant</strong> appears directly on your site pages.<br />
While browsing, you can quickly check pageviews, key metrics, and device-specific heatmaps — a lightweight assistant for logged-in admins.</p>
<h3>Heatmaps & Session Replays — see how visitors behave</h3>
<p>Visualize how people interact with your site: where they click, scroll, and pause.<br />
Session Replays let you follow their real journeys, helping you discover friction points and hidden opportunities.</p>
<h3>Reports & Trends — your site at a glance</h3>
<p>Access clear, intuitive charts and summaries that show what’s working and where to improve.<br />
Switch to <strong>Advanced Mode</strong> to unlock detailed metrics and comparison tools.</p>
<h3>Cookie-less Tracking — privacy made simple</h3>
<p>Track user behavior responsibly.<br />
QA Assistants includes a cookie-less tracking mode, so you can comply with privacy rules without losing insight.</p>
<h3>Built for WordPress — light, secure, and extendable</h3>
<p>Designed to blend seamlessly with your dashboard.<br />
QA Assistants follows WordPress coding standards, loads only what’s needed, and supports modular extensions for future Assistants.<br />
All of these features are completely free — just install and start exploring.</p>
<h3>Important Notes</h3>
<ul>
<li>
<p>QA Assistants collects data in real time, but analytical reports are processed overnight.<br />
You can see live visit counts immediately, while detailed insights (used by Assistants) become available the following day.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Please do not compress or minify JavaScript used by QA Assistants or WordPress.<br />
Some optimization plugins may interfere with tracking; exclude QA Assistants–related scripts if needed.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Make sure your PHP memory limit is sufficient for data processing.<br />
If your server uses a very low limit (for example, 256 MB or less), some processes may fail.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>For detailed technical guidance or troubleshooting steps,<br />
please see the <a href="https://docs.quarka.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a>.</p>
</li>
</ul>


QA Assistants – Driven by data

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Let your data speak — assistants with different perspectives help you understand your site, alongside heatmaps and replays.

VisitStats vs QA Assistants – Driven by data