Simple Traffic Stats WordPress Plugin

Simple Traffic Stats is a lightweight WordPress analytics plugin from TechGrapple.Com that tracks essential website traffic directly inside the WordPress dashboard.

Plugin page | GitHub owner

Screenshots

Traffic Dashboard

Settings

Dashboard Widget

Features

• Page view and unique visitor tracking.
• Referrer and top traffic source reports.
• Optional country statistics with a site-owner-provided MaxMind GeoLite2 Country database.
• Charts for traffic trends, countries, and referrers.
• Today, last 7 days, last 30 days, and custom date filters.
• Dashboard widget with a quick 7-day overview.
• IP, role, logged-in user, and bot user-agent exclusions.
• Optional IP anonymization.
• Local data storage in WordPress, without sending analytics data to third-party analytics services.

Download

Download the installable plugin zip from the GitHub Releases page:

simple-traffic-stats-v1.6.2.zip

The release zip contains the correct WordPress plugin folder:

simple-traffic-stats/

Installation

1. Download the latest release zip.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
3. Choose the zip file and select Install Now.
4. Activate Simple Traffic Stats.
5. Open Traffic Stats in the WordPress admin menu.

Optional GeoIP Setup

Country tracking requires your own MaxMind GeoLite2 Country database. The database is not bundled with this plugin.

1. Download the GeoLite2 Country database in GeoIP2 binary .mmdb format from MaxMind.
2. Upload GeoLite2-Country.mmdb to a server location readable by PHP.
3. In WordPress, go to Traffic Stats > Settings.
4. Enter the absolute path to the .mmdb file.
5. Save settings and confirm the status message shows the database is readable.

Repository

• Plugin page: https://www.techgrapple.com/simple-traffic-stats-a-lightweight-wordpress-analytics-plugin/
• Developer: TechGrapple.Com
• Repository: https://github.com/zohebnsr/simple-traffic-stats

Release Packaging

This repository includes a GitHub Actions workflow at .github/workflows/release.yml.

To create a GitHub release with an installable WordPress zip:

git tag v1.6.2
git push origin v1.6.2

The workflow builds simple-traffic-stats-v1.6.2.zip and attaches it to the GitHub release.

License

Simple Traffic Stats is licensed under GPLv2 or later.