LinuxBCN Analytics for GoatCounter

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

1. Create a free account at goatcounter.com
2. Go to Analytics → Settings and enter your site code and API token
3. 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.