VisitStats Wordpress Plugin - Rating, Reviews, Demo & Download
Plugin Description
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
Screenshots
The main dashboard with real-time visitors, summary cards, and pageviews chart.
Top pages, sources, devices, and browsers reports.
Top referrers showing the actual external URLs sending traffic.
Settings page with tracking, exclusions, and retention controls.
Feedback page for feature requests and bug reports.
