Machete vs Snorklee Analytics

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.

Snorklee Analytics is the official WordPress plugin for Snorklee — a privacy-first, 100% EU-sovereign web analytics service. The plugin auto-injects a single tag on every public page of your site, with two modes : Standard mode (3rd-party) The classic snippet : . Simple, lightweight, no server-side load. Drawback : Chrome 121+ in incognito mode and ad-blockers (uBlock Origin, Brave Shields, AdGuard) block requests to third-party “analytics” domains by default. Depending on your audience, 5 to 20 % of sessions silently disappear. Self-host mode (1st-party — built-in proxy) The killer feature. With one toggle, the plugin : Serves the tracker JS from your own domain via a WordPress route (/js/flow.js) Proxies all events (/api/event, /api/ping, /api/zone, /api/click) through WordPress to snorklee.com Caches the tracker JS for 1 hour using the WordPress Transients API (no extra DB load) Forwards X-Forwarded-For so snorklee.com sees the visitor’s real IP for geolocation The visitor’s browser sees only 1st-party requests to your own domain. uBlock, Brave, AdGuard and Chrome’s Tracking Protection have nothing to filter. No DNS configuration. No Nginx tweak. No cPanel access required. Works on every WordPress hosting, including OVH/IONOS/Infomaniak shared plans. Privacy by construction No cookie set on the visitor’s browser No persistent identifier (visitor hash rotates daily, salt rotates monthly) No cross-site tracking (each site has an isolated identifier space) No advertising classification (no UTM parsing, no paid/organic split) Honors Do Not Track, Sec-GPC, and a localStorage opt-out flag Designed so that the ePrivacy consent requirement (article 5(3)) is not triggered : nothing is stored on or read from the visitor’s device — documented in the Snorklee compliance dossier What the plugin does NOT do No phone-home from PHP for visitor tracking in standard mode (everything happens client-side) — the only server-side call is the optional AI-crawler beacon described under “External services”, disabled with one toggle No tracking pixel injected by the plugin itself No data collection beyond what the standard Snorklee JS tracker does No third-party scripts loaded No SQL table created (the plugin only stores 3 options : domain, dashboard URL, self-host toggle) No personal data stored on your WordPress server (in self-host mode, events transit through but are not logged) Why use the plugin instead of pasting the snippet manually Survives theme updates (the snippet sits in plugin code, not in header.php) Settings page with built-in installation test (HTTP probe on home page) Self-host mode in one click (impossible without writing PHP yourself) Multisite-compatible Clean uninstall : no leftover options, no SQL tables, no transient MIT-licensed source code under 600 lines, fully auditable External services This plugin connects to the Snorklee analytics service (https://snorklee.com), which is what it exists for. Three kinds of requests are involved : Visitor tracking (standard mode) : the visitor’s browser loads the tracker from snorklee.com/w.js and sends pageview events to snorklee.com/api/event. Data sent : page path (query string stripped), referrer, viewport size, user agent. The visitor’s IP is used transiently for country/region geolocation and is never stored. No cookies, no persistent identifier. Visitor tracking (self-host mode) : same data, but the requests transit through your own WordPress site, which forwards them server-side to snorklee.com. AI-crawler beacon (server-side, optional, on by default) : when a known AI crawler (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot…) requests a page, the plugin reports that crawl server-to-server to snorklee.com/api/event (crawler user agent + page path, query string stripped). This concerns bot traffic only, never your human visitors. One toggle on the settings page disables it. Service provider : Snorklee (France). Terms : https://snorklee.com/docs/en/gdpr · Privacy : https://snorklee.com/en/privacy-compliance · Data collected : https://snorklee.com/docs/en/data-collected