GreenOrb Statistics – Google Analytics Alternative with Bot Filtering

No. All tracking and reporting happens on your own server, your data is stored only in your WordPress database, and no external call is ever made to render a report. The plugin does contact a small number of third parties, none of which are sent visitor data, and all of which are itemised under "External services" above. Three of them are jobs your server does, and none of them run unless you turn them on or press a button: refreshing the bot-signature list, downloading the geolocation database, and looking up the title of an embedded YouTube or SoundCloud track. The one exception is not your server and is not optional in the same way: on a page that embeds a YouTube video or a SoundCloud player, the visitor's browser loads that provider's player API so plays can be detected. This contacts only the provider whose player is already embedded on that page — no host your visitor's browser wasn't already reaching — and it doesn't happen at all on pages with no such embed, or for a visitor who has declined statistics consent.

Often because some of those visitors are automated. GreenOrb Statistics filters known bots using the open-source Matomo bot list, skips headless browsers and referrer spam, and flags real-browser bots that get past those checks by how they behave: many sessions on one page and no scrolling, clicking, downloads or plays. If you switch on the optional data-centre check, it can also flag or exclude visits from cloud and hosting networks. Some automated traffic still looks exactly like a person, so treat flagged visits as likely bots, not proof.

Yes, for most sites. It covers page views, visitors, sessions, traffic sources and campaigns, devices, geography and content reports. You don't need a Google account, and your statistics are not sent to Google or any other analytics service.

Yes. Go to Settings → Privacy & Data and turn off Visitor cookie. That is the only cookie the plugin sets for your visitors. With it off, visitors are counted with a privacy hash that changes every month, so returning visitors can't be recognised from one month to the next. The plugin also keeps a small note in the browser's local storage so a quick reload isn't counted as a second view. Turn off Browser storage in the same place and it stores nothing in the visitor's browser at all; every page load then counts. Whether you need a consent banner depends on the rules where you and your visitors are, so these two settings let you choose exactly what is stored.

Yes. View tracking is recorded server-side and via a lightweight front-end script, so it works alongside page caching.

No. The free DB-IP Lite database works without an account or key, and Cloudflare's country header is used automatically when your site is proxied through Cloudflare. MaxMind GeoLite2 is also supported if you prefer it. Geolocation is off until you ask for it: no database is downloaded on activation. Choose the geography step in the setup wizard, or press Download on Settings → Geography, and lookups then happen entirely on your own server.

No. The plugin works on any WordPress site. WooCommerce reporting is a Pro feature, and even in Pro it only loads when WooCommerce is active.

The free plugin is a complete analytics tool: page views, visitors, sessions, journeys, referrers and campaigns, devices, geography, content and author reports, bot filtering, tracked clicks, email reports, the dashboard widget, annotations, and CSV export. Pro adds the modules listed under "Also available in Pro" above — WooCommerce revenue reporting, goals, Web Vitals, media, forms, spike alerts, SPA tracking, Ask AI, and excluded countries.

In custom tables in your site's database (prefixed greenorb_statistics_). Uninstalling the plugin removes its data according to your settings.