Volixta Analytics Lite

Volixta Analytics Lite gives you a focused real-time analytics dashboard directly inside WordPress. See live visitor activity, page views, sessions, referrers, devices, browsers, countries, acquisition channels and UTM campaign data without sending your analytics records to a hosted analytics platform. Your analytics records stay in your own WordPress installation and are not sent to Volixta. No external analytics account is required. Volixta Analytics Lite can also be used as a privacy-friendly, self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics if you prefer to keep your website analytics inside WordPress. It works independently and can also be used alongside other analytics tools. Main features

• Live activity with automatic refresh countdown.
• Real-time summary of current website activity.
• Page views, visitors, sessions and average visit duration.
• Top pages, entry pages, exit pages, referrers and navigation journeys.
• Audience reports for countries, languages, devices, browsers and operating systems.
• Acquisition reports for traffic channels, UTM campaigns and recognized AI referrals.
• Pseudonymous visitor and session measurement.
• No analytics cookies used for visitor or session identifiers.
• Respects the browser's Do Not Track setting.
• No raw visitor IP stored in the analytics table.
• Query strings removed from stored page URLs.
• Optional pseudonymous tracking of logged-in visitors, disabled by default.
• Administrators excluded from tracking by default.
• Optional local country detection with the DB-IP Country Lite database.
• Daily and monthly email summaries.
• Guided setup wizard.
• CSV export for the selected dashboard range.
• Optional Views column in WordPress Posts and Pages.
• Optional Volixta stats in the admin toolbar and a WordPress Dashboard widget.
• Optional full-screen Volixta workspace with a banner-inspired dark blue/cyan interface, enabled by default and switchable back to the classic WordPress layout.
• WordPress multisite support.

Real-time analytics The Real-Time report lets you see what is happening on your website right now. It refreshes automatically and shows current activity such as active visitors, recent page views and the pages receiving traffic. This can be useful after publishing new content, sharing a link or launching a campaign. The rest of the dashboard gives you historical reports for visitors, sessions, pages, traffic sources, audience information and campaigns. Daily and monthly email summaries You can enable optional daily and monthly summary emails from the Notifications page. Daily summaries cover the previous complete day and are scheduled for 08:00 in the WordPress timezone. Monthly summaries cover the previous calendar month and are scheduled for 08:15 on the first day of the month. Emails contain aggregate analytics only, such as visitors, views, sessions, average visit duration, top pages, traffic sources and devices. A test email can be sent from the Notifications page. The plugin stores the notification recipient address and notification settings in WordPress options. A watchdog cron runs twice per day to check for missed reports and can retry a summary if WP-Cron runs late or an earlier send failed. wp_mail() returning success means WordPress accepted the message for delivery through your site's mail configuration. It does not guarantee final inbox delivery by the receiving mail provider. Privacy Volixta Analytics Lite is designed to keep analytics lightweight and privacy-conscious.

• Visitor and session measurement is pseudonymous.
• The frontend tracker uses first-party localStorage and sessionStorage instead of analytics cookies.
• The pseudonymous visitor identifier stored in localStorage has a fixed lifetime of up to 13 months.
• The visitor identifier expiration is not extended each time the visitor returns.
• The frontend tracker respects the browser's Do Not Track setting.
• Raw visitor IP addresses are not persisted in the analytics table.
• Raw User-Agent strings are not persisted in the analytics table.
• Query strings are removed from stored page URLs.
• External referrer information is reduced before storage.
• Logged-in visitor tracking is disabled by default. It can be enabled from Settings or the setup wizard.
• WordPress user IDs are not stored in analytics records.
• Administrators remain excluded from tracking by default.
• Country detection is performed locally when the optional DB-IP database is installed.
• Notification emails contain aggregate analytics only.

An IP address may be processed temporarily in memory for abuse protection and, when enabled, local country detection. Volixta Analytics Lite uses pseudonymous analytics and should not be considered fully anonymous analytics. Privacy and consent requirements vary by jurisdiction and website configuration, so site owners remain responsible for evaluating the requirements that apply to their own website. External services The plugin can optionally use the DB-IP Country Lite database for local IP-to-country lookup. The database is not bundled with the plugin and is not installed silently. Installation is off by default, and an administrator must explicitly choose to install it from the setup wizard or the plugin settings. The archive is requested from: https://download.db-ip.com/ The database is stored under the WordPress uploads directory. Volixta writes only to its own GeoIP storage directory there, so the initial installation and later GeoIP updates do not require WordPress plugin-update FTP/SSH credentials when the uploads directory is directly writable. Automatic DB-IP updates are a separate optional setting and are disabled by default. Only after an administrator explicitly enables that setting may Volixta contact download.db-ip.com approximately every 30 days and download the current DB-IP Country Lite archive. Visitor IP addresses are not sent to DB-IP for country lookups; lookups are performed locally on your WordPress server. Country views include attribution linking to DB-IP. DB-IP information: Terms of service: https://db-ip.com/tos.php Privacy policy: https://db-ip.com/privacy.php DB-IP Lite database: https://db-ip.com/db/lite.php See THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.txt for third-party notices.

1. Upload volixta-analytics-lite to /wp-content/plugins/, or install it through the WordPress Plugins screen.
2. Activate Volixta Analytics Lite.
3. Complete the setup wizard.
4. Open the Analytics dashboard.
5. The setup wizard can optionally install the DB-IP Country Lite database; notification and country-detection settings can also be changed later.

If the wizard reports that the collection endpoint is blocked, allow this route in your firewall, security plugin or cache rules: /wp-json/volixta-analytics-lite/v1/collect Without this endpoint, the plugin cannot collect visits, sessions or real-time activity.

1.2.1 – 2026-10-04

• Added new translation strings.
• Fixed incorrect text in the review prompt.

1.2.0 – 2026-10-04

• Added operating-system analytics to Audience & Tech.
• Added optional analytics Views columns to WordPress Posts and Pages.
• Added optional live-now admin-toolbar stats and a Volixta-styled WordPress Dashboard widget; both are opt-in and configurable from Setup Wizard and Settings.
• Added CSV export for Today, Yesterday, 7, 30 and 90 day dashboard ranges, with a compact icon control for mobile.
• Added a Last 90 days dashboard range while keeping Lite retention capped at 90 days.
• Expanded AI referral recognition, including Bard/Gemini legacy traffic, OpenAI, Meta AI, Poe, You.com, Phind and Mistral Vibe.
• Added a third Focus interface with a low-saturation charcoal palette, multiple muted accents for visual hierarchy, high text contrast, reduced visual effects, and dedicated styling across dashboard screens, FAQ accordions, controls, wizard steps and the WordPress Dashboard widget.
• Added a friendly review prompt that appears after 24 hours, with options to be reminded later or dismiss it permanently.
• Added settings to disable the Posts/Pages Views column, toolbar stats and Dashboard widget independently.
• Preserved 1.1.0 interface preferences during upgrade without reopening the setup wizard or changing the analytics database schema.
• Kept WordPress integration styling in dedicated external stylesheets and updated uninstall cleanup for every new 1.2.0 option.
• Added per-file cache-busting for admin, wizard, integration and tracker assets so replacing a 1.2.0 build cannot leave stale CSS or JavaScript in the browser.
• Matched email summaries and the Notifications preview to the selected Standard, Immersive or Focus interface palette, including distinct low-saturation Focus accents.

1.1.0 – 2026-10-03

• Added a new immersive analytics interface with a full-screen, distraction-free dashboard.
• Added an interface setting to switch between the immersive experience and the standard WordPress admin layout.
• Updated the setup wizard with interface selection, clearer progress navigation and improved mobile behavior.
• Added quick access to the setup wizard from the analytics interface.
• Expanded Overview with dedicated Live Activity, Performance, Acquisition, and Audience & Tech sections.
• Improved traffic charts, period comparisons, country visualization, and performance statistics.
• Added a setting to show or hide the Overview summary cards; they are hidden by default.
• Improved mobile navigation, responsive layouts, and horizontal analytics tab scrolling.
• Refined colors, contrast, borders, notifications, and readability throughout the dashboard.
• Improved upgrade handling for existing installations and updated uninstall cleanup for the new settings.

1.0.3 – 2026-09-28

• Improved Analytics tracking controls and status visibility across the dashboard and settings.
• Added clearer warnings when Analytics tracking is disabled.
• Added an Analytics dashboard notice with a direct link to settings when tracking is disabled.
• Added a setup summary warning when the wizard is reopened while Analytics tracking is disabled.
• Improved Analytics status handling so inactive tracking is clearly reflected in the dashboard.
• Stopped live activity polling while Analytics tracking is disabled.
• Improved tracking-related interface text and state consistency across the wizard, dashboard, and settings.

1.0.2 – 2026-09-28

• Improved DB-IP privacy controls so installation and automatic updates require explicit administrator opt-in.
• Disabled automatic DB-IP updates when the DB-IP database is not installed.
• Improved DB-IP update scheduling and cleanup behavior.
• Improved uploads directory handling using WordPress filesystem and upload directory APIs.
• Improved WordPress script and style loading compatibility.
• Improved uninstall cleanup for DB-IP data and scheduled events.
• Added various security, permissions, and compatibility improvements.

1.0.1 – 2026-09-26

• Improved the first-run setup wizard and navigation.
• Added optional DB-IP Country Lite installation directly from the setup wizard.
• Added optional automatic DB-IP database updates approximately every 30 days with explicit administrator opt-in.
• Improved GeoIP database installation, validation, storage, and filesystem compatibility.
• Added clearer tracking and administrator exclusion guidance during setup.
• Improved analytics endpoint availability checks and setup guidance.
• Improved WordPress admin UI integration and prevented unrelated third-party notices from appearing on Volixta Analytics screens.
• Added various security, compatibility, accessibility, and UI improvements.
• Updated documentation and translation strings.

1.0.0 – 2026-09-26 Initial release.