Koko Analytics – Privacy-Friendly WordPress Analytics vs Statify

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.

Statify provides a straightforward and compact access to the number of site views. It is privacy-friendly as it uses neither cookies nor a third party. An interactive chart is followed by lists of the most common reference sources and target pages. The period of statistics and length of lists can be set directly in the dashboard widget. Data Privacy In direct comparison to statistics services such as Google Analytics, WordPress.com Stats and Matomo (Piwik) Statify doesn’t process and store personal data as e.g. IP addresses – Statify counts site views, not visitors. Absolute privacy compliance coupled with transparent procedures: A locally in WordPress created database table consists of only four fields (ID, date, source, target) and can be viewed at any time, cleaned up and cleared by the administrator. Due to this tracking approach, Statify is 100% compliant with GDPR and serves as an lightweight alternative to other tracking services. Display of the widget The plugin configuration can be changed directly in the Statify Widget on the dashboard by clicking the Configure link. The amount of links shown in the Statify Widget can be set as well as the option to only count views from today. Of course, older entries are not deleted when changing this setting. The statistics for the dashboard widget are cached for four minutes. Period of data saving Statify stores the data only for a limited period (default: two weeks), longer intervals can be selected as option in the widget. Data which is older than the selected period is deleted by a daily cron job. An increase in the database volume can be expected because all statistic values are collected and managed in the local WordPress database (especially if you increase the period of data saving). JavaScript tracking for caching compatibility For compatibility with caching plugins like Cachify Statify offers an optional switchable tracking via JavaScript. This function allows reliable count of cached blog pages. For this to work correctly, the active theme has to call wp_footer(), typically in a file named footer.php. Skip tracking for spam referrers The comment blacklist can be enabled to skip tracking for views with a referrer URL listed in comment blacklist, i. e. which considered as spam. Support If you’ve problems or think you’ve found a bug (e.g. you’re experiencing unexpected behavior), please post at the support forums. Contribute Active development of this plugin is handled on GitHub. Pull requests for documented bugs are highly appreciated. If you want to help us translate this plugin you can do so on WordPress Translate.