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Vireo Analytics – Cookieless WordPress Stats & Google Analytics Alternative

Name: Vireo Analytics – Cookieless WordPress Stats & Google Analytics Alternative
Rating: 5.0 (6 reviews)
Author: RebelCode

Self-hosted WordPress analytics that imports your Google Analytics history, shows the searches behind each post, and filters out bots. No cookies.

Vireo Analytics ranks #32,330 among WordPress.org plugins with 20+ active installations, is #632 of 2,168 in the Analytics category, a 5/5 rating from 6 reviews, and was last updated Nov 1, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1.4

v0.24.0 Current Version v0.24.0

Updated 6 days ago Last Update on 01 Nov, 2026

Refreshed 6 days ago Last Refreshed on

#632 of 2,168 in Analytics Top 50% by installs Downloads +14.3% this week Actively maintained

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Plugin Details

Version: 0.24.0
Last Updated: Nov 01, 2026
Requires WP: 6.9+
Tested Up To: 7.1.4
PHP Version: 7.4 or higher
Author: RebelCode

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Reviews: 6
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Vireo Analytics – Cookieless WordPress Stats & Google Analytics Alternative

Yes, Vireo Pro. Everything described above stays free. Pro adds revenue and conversion reports for stores, goals and funnels, client dashboards and more connected sites. If you stop paying, the free plugin keeps working with all your data. Pricing is on vireowp.com.

Yes. Vireo Analytics doesn't set cookies, doesn't use localStorage for tracking, and hashes visitor identifiers with a salt that rotates every 24 hours. With Shorten IP addresses on, it also meets the IP condition in CNIL's guidance on audience measurement without consent. Whether your site needs a banner is for you and your adviser to decide. Country-level geolocation is derived from the IP on the server; the raw IP is never written to the analytics tables, and the short-lived buffer file holding it is deleted as soon as the aggregator processes it, usually within a minute. You should still mention the plugin in your privacy policy.

Within a single day it's a true unique count: one person is counted once no matter how many pages they read. Over a longer range it's the sum of the daily counts, so someone who visited on three days in the month counts three times. That isn't laziness, it's the privacy model. A visitor is identified by a hash of their IP and browser, salted with a secret that is thrown away and regenerated every night. Tomorrow the same person produces a completely different hash, so there is nothing that can link them back to today. That's what makes cookie-free, consent-free tracking legitimate rather than a technicality. The cost is that "unique people this month" is a question the data genuinely cannot answer, and we'd rather say so than print a number that looks precise and isn't. Pageviews are exact over any range.

Yes, and it's on by default. If a visitor's browser sends DNT: 1 or Sec-GPC: 1, the tracker refuses to fire for them, and the collection endpoint refuses the pageview even if something sends one anyway. Those visits are not recorded anywhere. This costs you some traffic in the dashboard, which is the point: an opt-out you can switch off isn't an opt-out. If you have a specific reason to override it, the vireo_honor_opt_out filter can return false.

Most analytics plugins count some automated traffic as visitors: uptime monitors (StatusCake, UptimeRobot, Pingdom), SEO crawlers (Ahrefs, Semrush, MJ12), AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) and testing tools. Vireo filters those out and shows you what it removed, by category, so you can check the difference yourself. If you'd rather count some of them, the vireo_bot_ua_pattern filter changes the pattern.

Yes. Settings, then Import data, pulls your daily pageviews, top posts and referrers from the WordPress.com Stats API for whatever date range you choose. You paste in your WordPress.com API key and the site address the stats are recorded under; Jetpack doesn't need to be active or connected. Jetpack Stats has no visitor counts, so imported days show pageviews only.

Yes. Settings, then Import data, brings your history across: daily pageviews and visitors, your pages, your referrers and which pages they sent readers to, countries, devices, outbound clicks, downloads, form submissions and your own custom events. It reads the Analytics Data API directly, so you need a Google service account key and your numeric property ID rather than the G- measurement ID. Sessions, conversions and the events GA4 collects on its own (page views, scrolls, session starts) do not come across.

Yes. Export your site from Plausible (Site settings, then Imports & Exports), then upload the zip under Settings, then Import data. Daily pageviews and visitors, pages, referrers, countries, device types, goals and custom events come across, with outbound clicks, file downloads and 404s landing in the same reports as Vireo's own. No API key is needed, and the uploaded file is deleted as soon as it has been read. Browsers, operating systems, entry and exit pages and custom properties are not imported.

Yes. Vireo runs an MCP server at /wp-json/vireo-analytics/mcp, so Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor and other MCP clients can ask about traffic, what changed, which pages are growing, what people searched for, which AI assistants send readers, broken links and more. Open Settings, Search Console & API and copy the ready-made configuration for your client. The assistant signs in with an application password you create on your profile, sees only what that user can see in the dashboard, and can read, never change anything. Nothing is sent anywhere: your assistant connects to your site directly.

No. Free Vireo Analytics never answers a MainWP dashboard. Sites that want their numbers in a MainWP dashboard can do it with Vireo Analytics Pro.