Epic Tracking – Click & Event Tracking for WordPress vs Mostify

Epic Tracking lets you add event tracking to any element on your WordPress site using a visual editor. Click the element you want to track, give it a name, and you’re done — events start recording immediately. No code, no Google Tag Manager, no external scripts. Visual Click & Event Editor Open the visual editor on any page from the WordPress admin bar. Click a button, link, form, CTA, or any other element — give it a reference name and tag — and save. That’s it. The event is live and tracking starts immediately. Track button clicks, form submissions, link clicks, and CTA conversions Set up events in seconds with a point-and-click interface Organize events with custom tags for easy filtering No coding or tag manager knowledge required Built-in Analytics Dashboard The plugin includes a full analytics dashboard in your WordPress admin: Event trigger counts with unique visitor breakdowns Page view statistics with date range filtering Per-page detail views with referrer, device, browser, OS, and country data Daily traffic charts and trend visualization Sortable tables with pagination Self-Hosted & Privacy-Friendly All tracking data stays in your WordPress database. No data is sent to third-party analytics services. Visitors are identified using a single first-party cookie — no personal data is stored or shared. Features Visual event editor — Point-and-click setup for tracking clicks on any element Custom event tags — Organize events with tags for easy filtering and reporting Event analytics — See which events fire most, with trigger counts and unique visitors Page view tracking — Automatic visit logging with full referrer and device data Country geolocation — Automatic IP-based country detection for visitor locations Bot filtering — Known bots and crawlers are automatically excluded Role exclusion — Exclude administrators or any user role from being tracked Date range filtering — Quick presets (today, last 7 days, last 30 days) and custom ranges Lightweight — No impact on page load speed; tracking runs asynchronously after render Self-hosted — All data stored in your WordPress database, no external dependencies Clean uninstall — All tables and options are removed when you delete the plugin Use Cases Track which CTAs and buttons get the most clicks on your landing pages Measure form submission rates and conversion events without tag managers Monitor page views and traffic trends without Google Analytics See which referrers drive the most traffic to specific pages Understand visitor demographics: device type, browser, OS, and country Why Epic Tracking? Most WordPress event tracking requires Google Tag Manager, custom JavaScript, or expensive third-party services. Epic Tracking gives you a visual editor to set up event tracking in seconds — no code, no external scripts, no data leaving your server. External services This plugin uses the ip-api.com geolocation service to determine visitor country based on their IP address. An HTTP request is sent to ip-api.com each time a new visitor is recorded (unless a cached result is available). The request contains only the visitor’s IP address. No other personal data is sent. Service: ip-api.com Data sent: visitor IP address When: on each new visit (results are cached for 24 hours) Terms of service: ip-api.com/docs/legal Privacy policy: ip-api.com/docs/legal

Mostify is a fast, no-bloat popular-posts plugin that turns your WordPress views and comments into ranked lists you can drop anywhere via shortcode, widget, or Gutenberg block. It uses a pre-aggregated bucket schema (one row per post per time bucket) so ranking queries stay snappy even on sites with millions of pageviews — no on-the-fly aggregation, no JOIN fan-out, no slow wp_postmeta scans. Highlights Page-views counter — AJAX tracking with bot detection, per-visitor cookie deduplication, and a mostify_should_track_view filter for custom rules. Comments counter — counts approved comments (auto-approved + admin-approved transitions). Time-period rankings — today, yesterday, past_24_hours, this_week, last_week, past_7_days, this_month, last_month, past_30_days, this_year, last_year, past_12_months, all_time. Custom periods — build any window via custom_hours_N, custom_days_N, custom_months_N. 4 list styles — simple, bars, cards, medal (top-3 medal emoji). Multi-tab layouts — show several time periods side by side in one block, each tab with its own period and sort order. Choose from 4 tab styles: horizontal tabs, vertical tabs, horizontal accordion, vertical accordion. Leave tabs empty to render a single period exactly as before. 10 color presets — ocean, sunset, forest, berry, fire, midnight, coral, arctic, earth, neon — plus theme inheritance and custom CSS. Views migration — one-click import of lifetime view counts from popular counter plugins so you can switch to Mostify without resetting your rankings to zero. Supports WordPress Popular Posts, Post Views Counter, WP-PostViews, WP Statistics, Top 10 — Popular Posts, and Jetpack Stats. Runs as a batched background job with live progress. Display surfaces — shortcode [mostify], classic widget, server-rendered Gutenberg block, post-editor meta box, auto-insert into the_content. Admin chart — per-post hourly / daily / monthly histogram with period switcher. Performance — 3-tier cache (request memo + object cache + transient), optional batch-write buffer for high-traffic sites. Capabilities — role-based access via the mostify_edit and mostify_view capabilities. Privacy — no third-party tracking. View tracking happens entirely on your own server. Privacy Mostify stores anonymous, per-post view counts on your own database. No personal data, no IP addresses, and no third-party services are involved. The view-tracking AJAX endpoint sets a single first-party cookie (mostify_v_ , default 3-hour TTL) used solely for deduplication; cookie name and TTL are filterable. The plugin makes no outbound HTTP calls.