Statify

Description

Statify provides a straightforward and compact access to the number of site views. It is privacy-friendly as it uses neither cookies nor a third party.

An interactive chart is followed by lists of the most common reference sources and target pages. The period of statistics and length of lists can be set directly in the dashboard widget.

Data Privacy

In direct comparison to statistics services such as Google Analytics, WordPress.com Stats and Matomo (Piwik) Statify doesn’t process and store personal data as e.g. IP addresses – Statify counts site views, not visitors.

Absolute privacy compliance coupled with transparent procedures: A locally in WordPress created database table consists of only four fields (ID, date, source, target) and can be viewed at any time, cleaned up and cleared by the administrator.

Due to this tracking approach, Statify is 100% compliant with GDPR and serves as an lightweight alternative to other tracking services.

Display of the widget

The plugin configuration can be changed directly in the Statify Widget on the dashboard by clicking the Configure link.

The amount of links shown in the Statify Widget can be set as well as the option to only count views from today. Of course, older entries are not deleted when changing this setting.

The statistics for the dashboard widget are cached for four minutes.

Period of data saving

Statify stores the data only for a limited period (default: two weeks), longer intervals can be selected as option in the widget. Data which is older than the selected period is deleted by a daily cron job.

An increase in the database volume can be expected because all statistic values are collected and managed in the local WordPress database (especially if you increase the period of data saving).

JavaScript tracking for caching compatibility

For compatibility with caching plugins like Cachify Statify offers an optional switchable tracking via JavaScript. This function allows reliable count of cached blog pages.

For this to work correctly, the active theme has to call wp_footer(), typically in a file named footer.php.

Skip tracking for spam referrers

The comment blacklist can be enabled to skip tracking for views with a referrer URL listed in comment blacklist, i. e. which considered as spam.

Support

If you’ve problems or think you’ve found a bug (e.g. you’re experiencing unexpected behavior), please post at the support forums.

Contribute

• Active development of this plugin is handled on GitHub.
• Pull requests for documented bugs are highly appreciated.
• If you want to help us translate this plugin you can do so on WordPress Translate.

Screenshots

FAQ

Which areas are excluded from counting?

Statify does not count the following views:

• feeds
• trackbacks
• searches
• previews
• views by logged in users (unless tracking is activated via the settings page)
• error pages
• favicon (as of WP 5.4)
• sitemap (as of WP 5.5)

This behavior can be modified with the statify__skip_tracking hook.

Can further visitor data be recorded?

Some plugin users want to capture additional visitor data, e.g. name of the device and resolution.
Statify counts exclusively page views and no visitors, the desired data acquisition is not a question.

How to change who can see the Dashboard widget?

Per default only administrators can see the widget. This can be changed with the statify__user_can_see_stats hook.

Example:

add_filter(
    'statify__user_can_see_stats',
    '__return_true'
);

has to be added to the theme’s functions.php and adapted to your needs. This example would allow all users to see the widget.

Editing the configuration is still limited to users with edit_dashboard capability.

How to skip tracking for defined users or pages

The conditions for tracking views can be customized according to page type and user capabilities by using the hook statify__skip_tracking.

Example:

add_filter(
    'statify__skip_tracking',
    function() {
        if ( condition ) {
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }
);

has to be added to the theme’s functions.php. The condition has modified such that the method returns true if and only if the view should be ignored.

How to extend this plugin?

• Statify – Extended Evaluation for a more detailed evaluation and export function
• Statify Widget to display most popular content
• Statify Blacklist to define a customized blacklist for referrer spam

Reviews

Supi, übersichtlich, klar

mehralsheidi August 3, 2024

Ein Blick auf die Kurven ist zwar nicht immer erbaulich, aber dafür motivierend ??

Just simple stats.

00Sleepy October 18, 2023

Simple an clean statistic plugin. Just works.

Changed to Statify because of GDPR and after 4 years now: missing nothing

winterfjell August 20, 2023

Of course there is some information in the big solutions like Analytics or Jetpack that I got used to, but to be honest: I don’t need it anymore and do not miss it. I filter out referrer spam for values ??that are as real as possible and actually I just want to see when which page in the blog performs and how. And Statify together with Statify – Extended Evaluation is enough for that. Since I myself attach great importance to personal-data-sensible surfing on the Internet, I want to enable my visitors to do the same. I feel much more comfortable now and would like to say THANK YOU after 4 years of use.

Sehr gutes Statistik-Plugin

blacckmamba March 18, 2023

Hab dieses Plugin bei allen meinen Kunden-Websites laufen. Ich liebe das Widget im Dashboard, weil es einen schnellen überblick über aktuelle Zugriffszahlen vermittelt. Dazu noch DSGVO-konform. Und ganz wichtig: ein fantastischer, blitzschneller, sehr interessierter Support!

Really Nice

cit1000 March 4, 2023

Thank you!

übersichtlich einfache Statistiken

pasiro February 6, 2023

Statify ist mein Standard Wordpress Plugin für einfache Statistiken, mit einem Blick ins Dashboard sehe ich die Aktivit?t über eine selbst gew?hlten Zeitverlauf. Statify nutzt wenig Resorchen, ist Datensparsam und reicht für die meinsten Websites v?llig aus. Vielen Dank an das Pluginkollektiv für dieses und andere Plugins die einfach funktionieren und DSGVO-Kompatibel sind.

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

You can find the full changelog in our GitHub repository.

1.8.5

• Updated build environment
• Minor code style corrections
• Tested up to WordPress 6.7

1.8.4

• Use same date retrieval for tracking and analysis (#227) (#232)
• Replace input filtering for PHP 8.1 compatibility (#237)
• Minor markup corrections in dashboard widget (#235)
• Tested up to WordPress 6.1

1.8.3

• Update documentation links (#204)
• Minor markup fix on settings page (#206)
• Dashboard widget is closeable again (#208) (#209)
• Fix static initialization on multisite with PHP 8 (#210, props @walterebert)
• Tested up to WordPress 5.8

1.8.2

• Minor adjustments for the dashboard widget (#197) (#199)
• Tested up to WordPress 5.7

1.8.1

• Fix AMP compatibility for Standard and Transitional mode (#181) (#182)
• JavaScript is no longer embedded if request is served by AMP (#181) (#182)
• Always register the action for the cleanup (#184)
• Exclude sitemap calls (WP 5.5+) from tracking (#185) (#186)
• Tested up to WordPress 5.6

1.8.0

• Fix date offset in dashboard widget in WP 5.3+ environments with mixed timezones (#167)
• Allow to deactivate the nonce check during JavaScript tracking (#168)
• Add support for “disallowed_keys” option instead of “blacklist_keys” in WordPress 5.5 (#174)
• Add refresh button in the dashboard, increase caching time (#157)

1.7.2

• Prevent JavaScript tracking from raising 400 for logged-in users, if tracking is disabled (#159)
• Use wp_die() instead of header and exit for AJAX requests (#160)
• Fix 1 day offset between display range and number of days evaluated in top lists (#162)

1.7.1

• Fix refresh of the dashboard widget when settings have been changed through the settings page (#147)
• Fix Cachify cache not being flushed after changing JavaScript settings (#152)
• Fix date inconsistency for number of total visits (#150)
• Extend user agent filter for bot detection (#149) (#151)
• Update tooltip library (containing a bugfix in IE 11) (#156)

1.7.0

• Fix JavaScript embedding when bots visit before caching (#84) (#86)
• Fix offset in visitor reporting due to different timezones between PHP and database (#117, props @sophiehuiberts)
• Fix untranslatable support link (#122) (#126, props @arkonisus)
• Add separate settings page and reduced widget backview to widget settings only (#111)
• Add options to track logged in users (#103) (#111)
• Add option to show total visits (#134, props @yurihs)
• Refactored JavaScript tracking to use WP AJAX (#109) (#142)
• Introduced new option to separate display from storage range (#72)
• Automatically add AMP analytics trigger if official AMP PlugIn is installed (#110) (#116, props @tthemann)
• Dashboard widget is now scrollable with dynamic point radius to keep long-term statistics readable (#71) (#101, props @manumeter)
• Improved bot detection (#112) (#125, props @mahype)
• Updated Chartist JS library for dashboard widget (#132)
• Skip tracking for favicon.ico redirects (since WP 5.4) (#144)
• Tested up to WordPress 5.4

For the complete changelog, check out our GitHub repository.