Title: Statnive – Simple, Real-time, Privacy-first Web Analytics Author: Parhum Khoshbakht Published: May 16, 2026 Last modified: May 16, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/statnive/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev=3533625) ![](https://ps.w.org/statnive/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=3533625) # Statnive – Simple, Real-time, Privacy-first Web Analytics By [Parhum Khoshbakht](https://profiles.wordpress.org/parhumm/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/statnive.0.4.13.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/statnive/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/statnive/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/statnive/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/statnive/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/statnive/) ## 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](https://github.com/statnive/statnive). Learn more at [statnive.com](https://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. ## Screenshots * [[ * Know your traffic at a glance — visitors, sessions, pageviews and trends that matter * [[ * Find what’s actually driving results — top sources and top pages side by side * [[ * Every page, ranked by what matters — search, sort, find your best content * [[ * See where visitors arrive and leave — entry and exit pages side by side * [[ * Understand where your traffic comes from — referral, direct, organic, social, AI * [[ * Desktop, mobile, bots — device, browser and OS breakdowns in one view * [[ * Reach across languages and regions — see which languages your visitors speak * [[ * Watch your site breathe in real time — active visitors and live pageviews ## Installation 1. Upload the `statnive` folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`. 2. Activate the plugin through the **Plugins** menu in WordPress. 3. Open **Statnive** in the admin sidebar. That’s it. Tracking begins immediately — no configuration, no account, no tracking code to paste. ## FAQ ### Does Statnive use cookies? No. Statnive is 100% cookie-free. Visitor identification is a daily-rotating salted hash that cannot be used to track individuals across days or sites. ### Is Statnive GDPR compliant? Statnive is **designed to support** GDPR, CCPA, APPI, and PIPL compliance: no cookies, no PII storage, daily rotating hashes, configurable retention, WordPress Privacy API export/erase, and server-side respect for GPC and DNT signals. Final compliance always depends on your configuration and your privacy policy. ### How does visitor counting work without cookies? A salted SHA-256 hash of the visitor’s anonymized IP plus User-Agent. The salt rotates daily, so the same visitor gets a different hash tomorrow — cross-day stitching is impossible while daily uniques stay accurate. ### Where is my data stored? In your WordPress database, in tables prefixed `statnive_`. Nothing leaves your server unless you explicitly enable the optional MaxMind or DB-IP GeoIP downloads( one-time database files, never visitor data). When you uninstall the plugin, all tables and uploaded GeoIP files are removed. ### Does it work with WooCommerce? Statnive tracks pageviews, events, sessions, and referrers on WooCommerce stores like any other WordPress site. Dedicated WooCommerce revenue tracking with Revenue per Visitor (RPV) is on the roadmap. ### How much does it slow down my site? The tracker script is small (~2 KB gzipped) and loads asynchronously, so it does not block your page render. The hit endpoint writes a single row per pageview. Dashboard queries run against pre-aggregated daily summaries rather than raw events. ### Can I run Statnive alongside Google Analytics or Matomo? Yes. Statnive is fully independent. Many users run Statnive as their primary privacy- friendly analytics and keep GA4 for advertising attribution. ### What can cause “no data”? Common causes: ad blockers, aggressive page caching, CSP rules blocking `fetch`/` sendBeacon` (allow `connect-src 'self'`), GPC or DNT enabled, or `DISABLE_WP_CRON` without a system cron. Exclude `/wp-json/statnive/v1/hit` and `admin-ajax.php?action =statnive_hit` from page caches. ### How does Geography work? Four tiers, falling through automatically: (1) browser timezone country, ~80% accurate, no external call; (2) CDN country headers (Cloudflare, CloudFront, Vercel) when present; (3) optional one-click DB-IP IP-to-City Lite (free, CC-BY 4.0); (4) optional MaxMind GeoLite2 (free with an account). Tiers 3 and 4 are opt-in via a discrete user click. ### Does Statnive count bots as real visitors? No. ~200 server-side bot UA patterns and tracker-side fingerprints (webdriver, automation flags) bucket bots separately, so “Visitors” and “Pageviews” reflect humans only. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Statnive – Simple, Real-time, Privacy-first Web Analytics” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Parhum Khoshbakht ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/parhumm/) “Statnive – Simple, Real-time, Privacy-first Web Analytics” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/statnive/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Statnive – Simple, Real-time, Privacy-first Web Analytics” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/statnive) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/statnive/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/statnive/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/statnive/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/statnive/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.4.13 – 2026-05-13 * Changed: PHP floor raised from 8.0 to 8.1 (PHP 8.0 EOL was Nov 2023). * Changed: `geoip2/geoip2` bumped ^2.13 ^3.0; `maxmind/web-service-common` bumped ~0.9.0 ^0.11. * Fix: DB-IP privacy-policy URL in External Services disclosure (404 canonical). See CHANGELOG.md. #### 0.4.12 – 2026-05-11 * Fix: replace competitor name in Tags line with `cookieless` for WP.org policy compliance. See CHANGELOG.md. #### 0.4.11 – 2026-05-09 * Removed: importers (WP Statistics + CSV) — orphan feature whose cron handler was never registered. See CHANGELOG.md. #### 0.4.10 – 2026-05-05 * New: MaxMind GeoIP card on the admin Settings page (license-key input + Enable toggle, drives the existing server-side options). * Internal: centralized the masked-license-key sentinel as a shared PHP/TS constant; new SettingsController integration test and ConsentApiIntegration unit test close prior coverage gaps. See CHANGELOG.md. #### 0.4.9 – 2026-05-04 * Fix: tracker skips excluded_roles + dist ZIP excludes hidden files. See CHANGELOG. md. #### 0.4.7 First public release on WordPress.org. Real-time dashboard, eight-channel grouping with a dedicated AI Assistants channel, four-tier geography, custom events + engagement, cookieless privacy modes, WordPress Privacy API, configurable retention, and the` wp statnive cron run` WP-CLI command. Source code and full history: https://github. com/statnive/statnive. ## Meta * Version **0.4.13** * Last updated **1 day ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher ** * Tested up to **6.9.4** * PHP version ** 8.1 or higher ** * Languages * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/statnive/) and [Russian](https://ru.wordpress.org/plugins/statnive/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/statnive) * Tags * [analytics](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/analytics/)[cookieless](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/cookieless/) [GDPR](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/gdpr/)[privacy](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/privacy/) [statistics](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/statistics/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/statnive/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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