iGuRu Daily Privacy Stats

iGuRu Daily Privacy Stats shows how your site is doing, without sending a single byte about your visitors to anyone. Everything is counted and stored in your own WordPress database, in two small tables.

What you see

• Readers online now, and the posts they are reading (also as a Dashboard widget)
• Views and visits per day, for the last 30 days, in a clear bar chart
• Totals for today, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, 1 year or 2 years
• Views per visit, and your best day ever
• Most read posts, for the chosen period and overall
• Referrers, grouped sensibly: all Google domains as “Google”, feed readers together, X/Twitter links together
• Countries, with flags (when your CDN or server provides the visitor’s country, e.g. Cloudflare)
• Authors, ranked by the views of their posts

Privacy by design

• No cookies, no local storage, no fingerprinting stored
• No IP addresses are stored, not even shortened ones
• No external services and no third-party scripts
• Only daily totals are kept: there is no record of individual visitors
• “Online now” uses a one-way hash of the IP address and browser with a secret that changes daily; the hash is deleted after 10 minutes, and the IP address is never stored
• Logged-in editors are not counted, and known bots are ignored

Because no personal data is collected, the plugin does not require a cookie consent banner on its own. As always, mention your analytics in your privacy policy.

Light and fast

• One tiny inline script (well under 1 KB) that sends a single beacon per page view, only when the page is actually visible
• No jQuery, no chart library: the dashboard uses plain HTML and CSS
• Compatible with page caches (WP Rocket, FlyingPress, LiteSpeed Cache and others) and with Cloudflare: the counter works on cached pages
• Old data is removed automatically after the period you choose (90 days to 2 years)

The plugin is fully translatable.