Statnive – Simple, Real-time, Privacy-first Web Analytics

Description

The privacy-first analytics plugin for WordPress.

See exactly who visits your site, where they come from, and what they do — without cookies, third-party trackers, or sending visitor data to anyone. All analytics live in your own WordPress database.

Open source under GPLv2. Self-hosted in your own database — nothing ever leaves your server.

Install, activate, open Statnive — your dashboard fills up within minutes. No tracking code to paste, no account to create.

Why Statnive?

• No cookies. No fingerprinting. No third-party transfers. Designed to support GDPR, CCPA, and APPI compliance.
• Honors GPC and DNT server-side, integrates with the WordPress Consent API.
• Daily-rotating salted hashes — cross-day and cross-site tracking are mathematically impossible.
• Eight focused dashboard pages. No clutter, no upsells.

Key Features

• Real-time — Active visitor count, active pages, live pageview feed.
• Smart channel grouping — Direct, Organic Search, Social Media, Email, Referral, Paid Search, Paid Social, and a dedicated AI Assistants channel for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, NotebookLM, Meta AI, Le Chat, Deepseek, You, iAsk, Jasper, and Writesonic.
• Custom events + engagement — Link clicks (and tagged button clicks via statnive-event-* classes), form submissions, downloads, outbound links, time on page, scroll depth.
• Bot vs human separation — Real visitors and automated traffic in distinct buckets.
• Geography in tiers — Zero-config timezone country mapping; optional CDN headers; optional one-click DB-IP city download (free); optional MaxMind GeoLite2.
• Configurable retention — 30 / 90 / 180 / 365 days, or Forever. Daily WP-Cron purge.
• WordPress Privacy API — Personal-data export and erase registered automatically.
• WP-CLI — wp statnive cron run for sites with DISABLE_WP_CRON.

Source code at github.com/statnive/statnive. Learn more at statnive.com.

External Services

This plugin connects to two third-party services, both opt-in via explicit user action. No visitor data is ever sent to either service.

MaxMind GeoLite2 (optional)

Used to download the MaxMind GeoLite2-City database for high-accuracy visitor geolocation. Requires a free MaxMind account and a license key the user pastes into Settings → GeoIP. Accuracy: approximate city/region only — not for identifying individuals or households.

• Source: MaxMind (https://www.maxmind.com), downloaded from https://download.maxmind.com/app/geoip_download
• When: Weekly via WP-Cron, only after the user enables GeoIP and configures a license key
• Data sent: License key + standard HTTP request headers. No visitor data is transmitted.
• Data received: GeoLite2-City.mmdb file, stored in your wp-content/uploads/statnive/ directory
• Purpose: Approximate visitor geolocation (country / region / coarse city)
• Sign up for a MaxMind account: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geolite2/signup
• Get your license key: https://www.maxmind.com/en/accounts/current/license-key
• MaxMind Privacy Policy: https://www.maxmind.com/en/privacy-policy
• MaxMind Terms of Use: https://www.maxmind.com/en/terms-of-use
• MaxMind GeoLite2 EULA: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geolite2/eula

This product includes GeoLite Data created by MaxMind, available from https://www.maxmind.com.

DB-IP IP-to-City Lite (optional)

Used to download the free DB-IP IP-to-City Lite database. No account, no license key, no EULA. Accuracy: approximate city/region only — not for identifying individuals or households.

• Source: DB-IP (https://db-ip.com), downloaded from https://download.db-ip.com/free/
• When: One-shot user click “Enable city-level geography” on the Geography page, then monthly via WP-Cron for refresh
• Data sent: Standard HTTP request headers only (no visitor data, no account, no key)
• Data received: dbip-city-lite-YYYY-MM.mmdb.gz file, decompressed to your wp-content/uploads/statnive/ directory
• Purpose: Approximate visitor geolocation (city / region / country)
• DB-IP Terms: https://db-ip.com/tos.php
• DB-IP Privacy Policy: https://db-ip.com/privacy.php
• License: CC-BY 4.0

GeoIP data © DB-IP under CC-BY 4.0.

No visitor data is ever sent to any external service. All analytics data remains in your WordPress database.

Privacy Policy

All analytics data stays in your WordPress database. Raw IPs are used only for the optional GeoIP lookup and are never persisted. Statnive registers with the WordPress Privacy API for personal-data export and erasure.