Search Analytics for WP
Search Analytics for WP will keep history of the search terms used by your users and group them in a set of statistics including the number of posts resulted from that search term. It can easily aid you in finding what your users are really searching for on your website and make sure you provide exactly what they need. Help and/or ideas are greatly appreciated! You can contribute to the GitHub repository: Search Analytics for WP NOTE: Search Analytics for WP stores all the statistics in your WordPress database. No info is sent to third-party services! Features Record all the search queries made using the standard WordPress search form. Exclude searches made by users with certain user roles or with certain IP addresses Exclude duplicate searches made in certain conditions Choose which user roles are allowed to see the statistics Filter statistics by time periods, with/without results, strings/substrings View each term individual statistics Export data in the current view to CSV Easily delete certain search terms from history Easily erase all history from the database in case a reset is needed Easily erase history older than in case a general cleanup is needed Dashboard widget for a quick glance over your last week’s search stats Multisite compatible Country Geolocation Display search statistics on the front of your website using shortcodes
VisitStats
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
