Koko Analytics – Privacy-Friendly WordPress Analytics vs Machete

Koko Analytics is a privacy-friendly and lightweight Google Analytics alternative for WordPress sites. It is a plug and play solution to get GDPR compliant insights into your website visitors without requiring any third-party services. Why choose Koko Analytics? Important insights Koko Analytics provides you with simple and effective analytics. There are no complicated reports to dig through. All the important metrics are visible from a quick glance at your analytics dashboard, right inside your WordPress admin. Privacy-friendly analytics Koko Analytics is a privacy-friendly solution for WordPress. It can be used without any cookies, no personal data is processed or stored and nothing is shared with any third-party. That makes it suitable for GDPR, CCPA, and PECR-compliant website statistics. Lightweight website statistics Koko Analytics is lightweight. It adds less than 1 kilobyte of data to your pages and is fully compatible with all kinds of caching setups. WordPress is bypassed entirely for its collection endpoint, making the impact on your site’s performance as close to zero as possible. Open source analytics Koko Analytics is open source released under the GPL license, just like WordPress itself. The source code is publicly available. Everyone has the right to run, study, share or modify the source code. Features WordPress analytics dashboard – View your website statistics directly inside WordPress admin. Top posts and pages – See which content gets the most visits. Referrer statistics – Find out which websites send traffic to your site. Path-based tracking – Track statistics for any URL, including archives and search pages. Returning visitor detection – Reliably detect returning visitors without cookies. Exclusion rules – Exclude visits from selected WordPress user roles or IP addresses. Historical data imports – Import statistics from Jetpack Stats, Plausible Analytics, Burst Statistics, Statify, WP Statistics, Independent Analytics, or SlimStat Analytics. Automatic data cleanup – Remove historical data older than a chosen number of months or years. Popular posts output – Show your most visited posts or pages with a widget, Gutenberg block, or shortcode. Pageview counter – Show the total number of pageviews for a page with a shortcode or Gutenberg block. Koko Analytics Pro Koko Analytics Pro adds more reporting options for sites that need deeper analytics. Country statistics – See which countries your visitors come from. Technology reports – View browser, operating system, and device statistics. Email reports – Receive periodic analytics reports in your inbox. UTM Campaigns – Measure the performance of your marketing campaigns. Custom event tracking – Track outbound link clicks, contact form submissions, add-to-cart actions, and more. Traffic spike alerts – Get notified by email when traffic changes quickly. View the Koko Analytics live demo or see Koko Analytics Pro pricing.

Machete is a simple suite of tools that solves common WordPress annoyances using as few resources as possible. Machete doesn’t cover every single use case, but there is a huge amount of sites that would require less plugins if they used Machete. All Machete tools have two things in common: they solve problems faced by many web developers and they do it using as few server resources as possible. So far, Machete includes the following tools: WordPress Optimization WordPress places a lot of code inside the tag just to keep backward compatibility or to enable optional features. You can disable most of it and save some time from each page request while making your installation safer. Cookies & GDPR Warning We know you hate cookie warning bars. Well, this is the least hateable cookie bar you’ll find. It is really light, doesn’t affect your PageSpeed score and plays well with static cache plugins. Analytics and custom code You don’t need a zillion plugins to perform easy tasks like inserting a verification meta tag (Google Search Console, Bing, Pinterest), a json-ld snippet or a custom stylesheet (Google Fonts, Print Styles, accessibility tweaks…). The Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager tracking codes are PageSpeed optimized, GPDR friendly. Maintenance mode The maintenance mode that ships with WordPress is just a basic lock-down that is activated whenever you do a major update. With machete Maintenance Mode you can hide your unfinished page from visitors and search engines, give your clients a secure temporary access and lock your site without affecting your SEO. Post & Page cloner Adds a “duplicate” link to post, page and most post types lists. Also adds “copy to new draft” function to the post editor. Social Sharing Buttons Social sharing done the Machete way. The icons are made as a custom webfont embedded in a minified CSS file that only weighs 5.8KB. The sharing actions use each platform’s native share URL. WooCommerce Utils WooCommerce was designed to work for every possible use case, but that often leads to unexpected behavior. These simple fixes can improve the WooCommerce user experience by making it behave as clients expect.