Privacy-focused cookie-free web analytics for WordPress.
| Author: | Blucube (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 4.6 |
| WordPress version tested: | 6.9 |
| Plugin version: | 2.0.2 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 02-04-2024 |
| Last updated: | 05-12-2025 |
| Rating, %: | 100 |
| Rated by: | 1 |
| Plugin URI: | |
| Total downloads: | 2 041 |
| Active installs: | 90+ |
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Simple Webstats is an easy to use, privacy-focused web analytics solution for WordPress. Gain insights into how your website is used without sacrificing your visitors privacy.
- No personal data or personally identifiable information (PII) collected.
- No cookies.
- No cross-site tracking.
- Data is stored in your own WordPress database and is owned by you.
Screenshots
Simple Webstats dashboard
Is Simple Webstats GDPR/PECR/CCPA Compliant?
Simple Webstats has been designed with user privacy in mind. It stores no cookies or other data on the users device, and collects no personal data or personally identifiable information from users. Data is stored in your own WordPress database rather than being sent to third parties, and is owned by you. The data that is stored can only be referenced to a randomly-hashed string of characters, not to a user, and these hashes change regularly.
The plugin does not set any cookies or use any other means of persistently identifying users.
We are developers rather than lawyers, but it is our understanding that this approach is compliant with all of the various different privacy regulations such as GDPR and PECR. This should not be taken as legal advice, however if any lawyers would like to audit our approach we would welcome the opportunity.
Do I need to display a cookie warning?
Simple Webstats does not use cookies, so requires no cookie notices or user consent dialogs.
Your site may use cookies for other purposes, in which case you should present users with appropriate information and controls.
What third party services does Simple Webstats use?
This plugin uses the country.is geolocation API to enable you to see visitor data by country. Requests are not logged and no personal data is collected. For more information please refer to the country.is documentation.
To identify types of browsers and devices, Simple Webstats uses the excellent DeviceDetector library.
ChangeLog
2.0.2
- Bugfix: Skip parsing referrer URL when not set in headers.
2.0.1
- Bugfix: Added container for WP admin notices so as not to break layout of dashboard page when present.
2.0.0
- New data structure and automatic migration functionality.
- Updated DeviceDetector.
- New settings page.
- Ability to show/hide logged-in user activity and bot traffic.
- Ability to configure the dashboard widget.
- Ability to purge data after a certain amount of time.
- Layout and style updates.
1.2.3
- Bugfix: “Last 24 hours” view was omitting current hour.
1.2.2
- Bugfix: Error in average time on site query was causing anomalous results.
1.2.1
- Bugfix: Dashboard widget was resetting user’s default dashboard view setting.
1.2.0
- Added dashboard widget.
- Added “Last 24 hours” view.
- Added rotation of UID salt to increase data anonymity.
1.1.0
- Omitted logging unsuccessful requests (e.g. 404s).
1.0.0
