Tidemark Analytics

Description

Tidemark is privacy-first web analytics you can run on your own hosting or use as a hosted service. This plugin connects a WordPress site to it: enter the address of your Tidemark, and the tracking script is added to every public page.

• No cookies, no personal data. Tidemark stores no IP addresses and nothing that follows a visitor from one day to the next.
• Nothing stored in WordPress. The plugin saves its settings and nothing else. Your statistics stay in Tidemark.
• Leaves you out. Signed-in administrators are not counted by default, and you can choose other roles. Page previews are never counted.
• Works with caching. The script is a separate, deferred file, so page caches and CDNs can store your pages as usual. The script tag asks the common caching and speed plugins not to combine, delay or rewrite it.
• Optional extras. Record clicks on links to other sites, file downloads, form submissions, and scroll depth and time on page.
• Custom events. Call plausible('Signup') from your theme or another plugin to record your own events.

You need a Tidemark to use this plugin: Tidemark Cloud or your own install, which is free and open source.

External services

This plugin loads a JavaScript file from the Tidemark server whose address you enter in the settings, and that script sends data about each visit to the same server.

• What is sent: the address of the page, the referrer, the screen width, and the names and properties of any events you record. Tidemark counts unique visitors with a one-way hash that changes every day; it does not store the IP address or the browser’s user agent and sets no cookies.
• When: on each public page view by visitors who are not excluded in the settings. Nothing is loaded or sent until you enter an address.
• Where: the server you enter. If you use Tidemark Cloud, that is run by Tidemark: terms of service and privacy policy. If you run Tidemark yourself, the data goes only to your own server.