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Statify

by pluginkollektivVersion 2.0.3

Visitor statistics for WordPress with focus on data protection, transparency and clarity. Perfect as a widget in your WordPress Dashboard.

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Active installs
100,000+
#348 of 1,000
Downloads, all time
2.8M
2,817,076
Downloads, 30 days
27.1K
5.1K in the last 7
Rating
4.8 / 5
51 reviews
Last updated
41 days ago
Sep 20, 2026
Version
2.0.3
33 releases

Upkeep and compatibility

Last updatedSeptember 20, 2026Updated in the last 3 months
Tested up toWordPress 7.1.4Covers WordPress 7.1.4, the current release
Needs WordPress5.1 or newer
Needs PHP7.4 or newer
First publishedMarch 16, 2011
Support, last two months0 of 1 threads resolved (0%)

Reviews

4.8 / 5 from 51 reviews

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Downloads, last 30 days

Low 538 a dayHigh 2.1K a day

What the author says it does

Statify provides a straightforward and compact access to the number of site views. It is privacy-friendly as it uses neither cookies nor a third party.

An interactive chart is followed by lists of the most common reference sources and target pages. The period of statistics and length of lists can be set directly in the dashboard widget.

Data Privacy

In direct comparison to statistics services such as Google Analytics, WordPress.com Stats and Matomo (Piwik) Statify doesn’t process and store personal data as e.g. IP addresses – Statify counts site views, not visitors.

Absolute privacy compliance coupled with transparent procedures: A locally in WordPress created database table consists of only four fields (ID, date, source, target) and can be viewed at any time, cleaned up and cleared by the administrator.

Due to this tracking approach, Statify is 100% compliant with GDPR and serves as an lightweight alternative to other tracking services.

Display of the widget

The plugin configuration can be changed directly in the Statify Widget on the dashboard by clicking the Configure link.

The amount of links shown in the Statify Widget can be set as well as the option to only count views from today. Of course, older entries are not deleted when changing this setting.

The statistics for the dashboard widget are cached for four minutes.

Period of data saving

The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.

Questions the author answers

Which areas are excluded from counting?

Statify does not count the following views:

  • feeds
  • trackbacks
  • searches
  • previews
  • views by logged in users (unless tracking is activated via the settings page)
  • error pages
  • favicon (as of WP 5.4)
  • sitemap (as of WP 5.5)

This behavior can be modified with the statify__skip_tracking hook.

Why are some sources missing in the dashboard widget?

Statify determines the source of a visit from the Referer request header (or, with JavaScript tracking enabled, from document.referrer).

The browser only sends this information when the originating site allows it via the Referrer-Policy header, so the originating site controls whether Statify receives a source at all.

A few common reasons why a Referer is missing:

Can further visitor data be recorded?

Some plugin users want to capture additional visitor data, e.g. name of the device and resolution.

Statify counts exclusively page views and no visitors, the desired data acquisition is not a question.

How to change who can see the Dashboard widget?

Per default only administrators can see the widget. This can be changed with the statify__user_can_see_stats hook.

Example:

add_filter( 'statify__user_can_see_stats', '__return_true' );

has to be added to the theme’s functions.php and adapted to your needs. This example would allow all users to see the widget.

Editing the configuration is still limited to users with edit_dashboard capability.

How to skip tracking for defined users or pages

The conditions for tracking views can be customized according to page type and user capabilities by using the hook statify__skip_tracking.

Example:

add_filter( 'statify__skip_tracking', function() { if ( condition ) { return true; }

return false; } );

has to be added to the theme’s functions.php. The condition has modified such that the method returns true if and only if the view should be ignored.

How to extend this plugin?
  • Statify Widget to display most popular content
  • Statify Blacklist to define a customized blacklist for referrer spam

Latest changelog entry

2.0.3

  • Make REST API endpoints visible to control and security plugins
  • Properly encode CSV data for download
  • Localize built-in user role names on settings page
  • Right-align numbers in tables
  • Minor dashboard JavaScript improvements
  • Tested up to WordPress 7.1

Screenshots

First 4 of 6, from WordPress.org.

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Rating
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Where this page's numbers come from

Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.