VisitStats is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by james333.
AppRanks verdict
Generated from live marketplace data — refreshed daily
VisitStats is a newly-listed WordPress app with a limited review volume. Category data on the canonical marketplace listing is currently incomplete, so AppRanks falls back to platform-wide rather than category-relative comparison for this listing. no published reviews yet means feature claims are unverified by the wider merchant base. Without a published review base, the only fit-signal available is the developer's own documentation plus the marketplace's listing-quality audit (linked below). Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by james333 — established developer track record
Cons
- −No public reviews yet — fit and reliability are unverified
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How VisitStats works
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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?
No cookies, no consent banner needed. Tracking is GDPR-friendly by default.
Self-hosted. All data lives in your WordPress database. No external service, no Automattic, no Google.
Lightweight. Frontend tracker is under 2KB. Loads asynchronously. Won’t slow your site.
Zero setup. Install, activate, done. No theme edits, no tag manager, no JS snippets.
Built for WordPress. Reports appear inside your WordPress dashboard — no separate app to log into.
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):
Real-time visitor count — see who’s on your site right now
Pageviews, unique visitors, sessions
Top pages
Top traffic sources (direct, search, social, AI, referral)
Top referrers — actual URLs sending you traffic
Device breakdown (desktop, mobile, tablet)
Browser & operating system detection
Configurable data retention from 1 day up to 1 year
Date range views: today, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 1 year
Engagement signals (scroll depth, time on page)
Cookieless visitor identification using daily-rotating salt + SHA-256 hashing
Bot filtering with built-in bot signature detection
Optional administrator / logged-in user exclusion
Honors Do Not Track browser signal
Automatic data pruning to keep your database lean
Rate-limited tracking endpoint protects against abuse
IP anonymization before hashing — actual IPs never stored
Privacy by design
VisitStats never:
Sets cookies
Stores IP addresses
Sends data to third parties
Fingerprints visitors
Tracks across days
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
Clean REST API at /wp-json/visitstats/v1/
Filter hooks for customizing behavior (rate limiting, bot detection, etc.)
PSR-style class organization
No external dependencies — pure WordPress core
Keyword rankings
VisitStats ranks for 1 keywords across WordPress Plugin Directory. Here are the top 1:
- 1.ai agentRank #755
Competitors & alternatives
AppRanks tracks competitor sets per category. For VisitStats, the independent listing audit includes a competitive context section, and the full WordPress app index shows the broader marketplace landscape this app competes in. Sign up free to surface a side-by-side competitor matrix customized to your tracked apps.
Frequently asked questions
What is VisitStats?
VisitStats is an app for WordPress. It is published on WordPress Plugin Directory and tracked by AppRanks, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on the refresh cadence published in our methodology. AppRanks tracks its category position, review-velocity trend, and the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by james333.