Fogless Analytics
Cookieless, privacy-first analytics with a clean dashboard right in wp-admin. No GA4 chaos, no consent banner, and your data never leaves your server.
Will this break my store?
What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping Fogless Analytics running.
Tested to 7.0.4 — 1 branch behind 7.1
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.30 days ago
7.4
Your host must be running at least this version.6.2
1
A single maintainer. Worth knowing if the plugin is load-bearing for your store.Maintenance & trust
Scored on how Fogless Analytics is looked after — not on how many stores run it.
Maintenance
35 / 35WordPress compatibility
20 / 20Support responsiveness
Not enough dataMerchant satisfaction
Not enough dataListing transparency
10 / 10Ratings
No one has rated this plugin on WordPress.org yet. That is a statement about the ratings page, not about the plugin — plenty of well-kept plugins never collect them.
Fogless Analytics shows you what actually matters about your traffic — in plain
language, right inside WordPress. It is cookieless by design: no cookies, no
cross-site tracking, no IP addresses stored. In most setups that means no
consent banner is needed for analytics.
Everything in the free plugin:
- Real-time panel — who is on your site right now, active pages and live sources.
- Clear KPIs with trends — visitors (true uniques over the whole period), pageviews, sessions and bounce rate, always compared to the previous period.
- Acquisition channels — organic, direct, social, referral, paid ads, paid social and AI assistants (ChatGPT, Perplexity & co.).
- Top pages with drill-down — click any page for time on page, bounce, entry/exit rates, its traffic sources and devices.
- Events — outbound clicks, file downloads and form submissions (only the fact of the submit; never any form content).
- WooCommerce built in — revenue, orders, conversion rate, average order value, revenue by channel (cookieless last-touch attribution), top products and a five-step path-to-purchase funnel.
- Countries and devices — visitor countries from network edge headers, device split.
- A dashboard people understand — contextual “?” explanations on every metric, a collapsible how-to-read guide and silent auto-refresh.
Everything listed above is included and fully functional in this plugin. There
are no locked features, no license keys and no usage limits.
Additional functionality (Customer Journey flow visualisation, automatic
recommendations, weekly e-mail reports and CSV exports) is available in a
separate plugin distributed from our own website.
Privacy
Fogless does not set cookies and does not store IP addresses. Visitor country
is derived from network edge headers when present; no GeoIP database of
personal data is kept. Raw event data is retained for 90 days (adjustable via the retention_days
setting) and then deleted automatically; aggregated daily statistics are kept. All
data stays in your WordPress database and is removed completely when the
plugin is deleted.
Fogless sets no cookies and stores no personal data such as IP addresses. A
visitor is counted using a one-way salted hash that changes every day, so
visitors cannot be tracked across days. In most GDPR interpretations this
qualifies as consent-free analytics — but the legal assessment of your site
is always yours to make.
Each pageview is attributed to a hash of (IP address + browser + your site
host) keyed with a salt that is regenerated daily and the old salt discarded.
The IP address itself is used only transiently in memory and never written to
the database.
Yes — out of the box. Fogless records revenue, orders, conversion rate and
average order value, attributes orders to the visitor’s acquisition channel
(last non-direct source), shows your top products and a five-step funnel from
visit to purchase.
No. The tracking beacon is a ~2 kB script that fires once per pageview,
asynchronously, and never blocks rendering. Dashboard queries read from daily
rollup tables, and old raw data is pruned automatically.
No. The live panel refreshes about every 15 seconds, but only while the
dashboard tab is actually in the foreground and you are working in it. When you
switch tabs it stops completely, and after a few minutes without interaction it
stands down until you come back. On a slow server it automatically backs off
further, so it never queues requests faster than the site can answer them.
In your own WordPress database. Nothing is sent to any external service —
the plugin makes no outside requests at all (even fonts are bundled).
No. Every feature listed above is fully functional, with no license key, trial
period or usage limit. A separate plugin available from our website adds
further functionality (journey visualisation, automatic recommendations,
e-mail reports and CSV exports), but nothing here depends on it.
Raw event data is kept for 90 days by default and then pruned automatically;
aggregated daily statistics are kept indefinitely. You can change the window
with the retention_days setting or the defog_retention_days filter.
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