Galytics – Cookieless, GDPR-friendly Analytics Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
Galytics is simple, privacy-friendly web analytics, hosted in the EU. It sets no cookies and never stores your visitors’ IP addresses, so you can see how your site is doing without a cookie banner.
This plugin adds the Galytics tracking script to your site. Paste your analytics token, and you are done.
Features
- No cookies, and IP addresses are never stored
- Pageviews, visitors, sources, countries, devices and top pages
- Custom events, goals, scroll depth and session replay
- Unlimited websites and team members, no per-seat pricing
- Hosted in the EU, built in Denmark
- Your own visits are not counted when you are logged in
Why switch from Google Analytics?
Several European data protection authorities, including the Danish Datatilsynet, have found that using Google Analytics breaks the GDPR because data is transferred to the US. Galytics keeps your visitors’ data in the EU.
External services
This plugin connects to Galytics (https://galytics.net) to provide web analytics.
Nothing is sent anywhere until you add an analytics token from your Galytics account. Once a token is set, every page on your site loads the Galytics tracking script from galytics.net, and each visitor’s browser sends data to api.galytics.net:
- On every pageview: the page URL, referrer, UTM and gclid parameters, screen size, browser user agent and, where the browser offers them, client hints (browser version, device model and OS version).
- While the visitor is on the page: how far they scroll, whether they are still active, and any custom events your site triggers.
- With the Full script only: a session recording of the page and the visitor’s mouse movements, clicks and scrolling. Everything typed into form fields is masked before it leaves the browser.
The visitor’s IP address reaches Galytics with each request. It is combined with the user agent into a keyed hash that groups pageviews into a visit, then discarded and never stored. The visitor’s country is taken from the network, not looked up from the address. The tracking script sets no cookies.
Screenshots
The Galytics dashboard: visitors, pageviews, bounce rate and session duration, compared with the previous period.
Session replay: watch how a visitor moved through a page. Form input is masked.
The plugin settings in WordPress: paste your token, pick a script and decide whether your own visits count.
