Descripció
Integrate GoatCounter into your WordPress site with a clean admin dashboard showing visits, pages and device breakdown — all without cookies, without tracking personal data, and without needing a GDPR consent banner.
Why GoatCounter?
- No cookies — no GDPR/cookie banner required
- Lightweight — single async script, zero performance impact
- Open source and privacy-respecting
- Free for up to 100,000 pageviews/month
Dashboard features
- Three tabs: Temporal (time series), Pages (top content), Devices (browsers, OS, countries)
- Five time periods: today, 7 days, 30 days, quarter (90 days), year (365 days)
- SVG bar chart of visits per hour / day / week / month depending on period
- Day-of-week distribution with percentage and visit count
- Top pages with WordPress page title lookup and direct links
- Browsers and operating systems with percentage bars
- Countries breakdown with percentage bars
- Summary metric cards (total visits, pages, countries, top browser)
- Remembers the active tab across page reloads (localStorage)
- Available in English and Catalan
Setup in 3 steps
- Create a free account at goatcounter.com
- Go to Analytics Settings and enter your site code and API token
- Done — the tracking script is injected automatically and stats appear in the dashboard
External services
This plugin relies on GoatCounter, a third-party privacy-friendly analytics service. GoatCounter is required for the plugin to function — you must create your own free GoatCounter account.
Tracking script: On every front-end page view, the visitor’s browser loads a tracking script from https://gc.zgo.at/count.js and sends a pageview request to https://{your-site-code}.goatcounter.com/count. This happens for every visitor on every page load, and includes standard pageview data (URL, referrer, screen size) — GoatCounter does not use cookies and does not collect personally identifiable information.
Dashboard API: When you view the Analytics dashboard in your WordPress admin, this plugin sends requests (using your API token) to https://{your-site-code}.goatcounter.com/api/v0 to retrieve your stats. This only happens when a logged-in administrator visits the Analytics page.
GoatCounter Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
Instal·lació
- Download the plugin ZIP file from the GitHub releases page or via Code Download ZIP.
Note for macOS users: Safari automatically unzips downloaded files and moves the ZIP to the trash. To keep the ZIP file, right-click the download link and choose «Download Linked File», or use a different browser such as Chrome or Firefox. - In your WordPress admin, go to Plugins Add New Upload Plugin.
- Select the
.zipfile and click Install Now, then Activate. - Go to Analytics Settings and enter your GoatCounter credentials.
PMF
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Do I need a GoatCounter account?
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Yes. Create a free account at goatcounter.com. It’s free for up to 100,000 pageviews/month.
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Where do I find my site code?
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It’s the subdomain of your GoatCounter dashboard URL. If your dashboard is at
mysite.goatcounter.com, your site code ismysite. -
Where do I find my API token?
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In your GoatCounter dashboard: Settings API tokens Create token.
The API token section only appears after you have confirmed your email address. When you register at goatcounter.com, they send a confirmation email — check your spam folder if you don’t see it. The API options won’t show up until your account is confirmed.
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No. GoatCounter does not use cookies and does not track personal data.
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No. Since GoatCounter does not use cookies or collect personal data, no GDPR consent banner is required.
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Is this plugin free?
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Yes. The plugin is free and open source (GPL-2.0). GoatCounter itself is also free for personal and low-traffic use.
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1.2.0
- Redesigned dashboard with three tabs: Temporal, Pages, Devices
- New periods: quarter (90 days) and year (365 days)
- SVG bar chart with gradient, grid lines and adaptive granularity (hour/day/week/month)
- Day-of-week distribution with percentage and visit count
- Top pages with WordPress page title lookup and clickable links
- Browsers, OS and countries with percentage bars
- Period selector redesigned as a full-width segmented nav
- Summary metric cards with icons
- Active tab persisted via localStorage across page reloads
- Catalan day names (Dl–Dg) in weekly chart
1.1.0
- Stats dashboard with top pages, referrers and countries
- Period filter: today / 7 days / 30 days
- Catalan translation
1.0.0
- Initial release — tracking script injection and settings page