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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.

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Savri Analytics is a privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics. Track your website visitors without compromising their privacy.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>No cookies – No annoying cookie banners needed</li>
<li>GDPR compliant – Privacy-first by design</li>
<li>Lightweight – Only ~2KB script, won’t slow down your site</li>
<li>Real-time – See your visitors as they browse</li>
<li>Simple dashboard – Easy to understand metrics</li>
</ul>
What you can track:
<ul>
<li>Page views and unique visitors</li>
<li>Traffic sources (referrers)</li>
<li>Top pages</li>
<li>Countries and devices</li>
<li>Outbound link clicks (optional)</li>
<li>File downloads (optional)</li>
<li>Form submissions (optional)</li>
<li>Scroll depth (optional)</li>
</ul>
Why Savri?
Unlike traditional analytics tools, Savri doesn’t use cookies or collect personal data. This means:
<ul>
<li>No cookie consent banners needed</li>
<li>Full GDPR/CCPA compliance out of the box</li>
<li>Faster page loads</li>
<li>More accurate data (no ad-blockers blocking it)</li>
</ul>
<h3>External services</h3>
This plugin connects to the Savri Analytics service (savri.io or besokskollen.se, selectable in the plugin settings) to load the tracking script and send pageview data. This is required for the plugin to function, since Savri Analytics is the service that records and displays your site’s traffic.
savri.io and besokskollen.se are operated by the same company and provide an identical service. besokskollen.se is the Swedish-language interface and savri.io is the international (English) interface. You only need an account on one of them, and you should select the matching domain in the plugin settings.
What the service is and what it is used for
Savri Analytics is a privacy-friendly, cookieless web analytics service that records anonymous pageviews and aggregated traffic data (referrers, top pages, countries, devices). The plugin uses the service to track visits to your WordPress site and display the results in your Savri dashboard.
What data is sent and when
<ul>
<li>Every time a visitor loads a page on your site, the plugin loads the tracking script from <code>https://savri.io/script.js</code> or <code>https://besokskollen.se/script.js</code> (depending on the domain configured in the plugin settings).</li>
<li>That script then sends a pageview event to the same domain (<code>/api/event</code> endpoint) containing: your Site ID, the page URL, the page title, the referrer, the visitor’s user-agent string, the browser language, and the screen size.</li>
<li>If you enable the optional tracking flags in the plugin settings, additional events are sent when the corresponding action happens on the page: clicks on outbound links, file downloads, form submissions, and scroll depth.</li>
<li>No cookies are set, no IP addresses are stored, and no personal data is collected. Visitors are not tracked across sites.</li>
</ul>
Service terms and privacy policy
<ul>
<li>Terms of service: <a href="https://savri.io/terms" rel="nofollow ugc">https://savri.io/terms</a></li>
<li>Privacy policy: <a href="https://savri.io/privacy" rel="nofollow ugc">https://savri.io/privacy</a></li>
</ul>

Savri Analytics

Privacy-friendly website analytics. No cookies, GDPR compliant, lightweight.

VisitStats vs Savri Analytics