Description
A WordPress analytics plugin you can trust
Understand your website traffic directly from WordPress with clear, real-time analytics designed with privacy in mind.
BimBeau Privacy Analytics stores your analytics data in your own WordPress database. No third-party analytics account is required, and your reports are available directly from the WordPress dashboard.
Simple to install, easy to understand, and built for website owners who want useful analytics without depending on a traditional external analytics platform.
See what matters at a glance
BimBeau Privacy Analytics gives you the insights you need to understand how people find and use your website:
- Visits, page views, and recent activity.
- Active visitors in real time.
- Top pages and content performance.
- Traffic sources, referrers, campaigns, and acquisition channels.
- Devices, browsers, operating systems, and screen sizes.
- Country-level geolocation.
- Internal searches.
- 404 errors and missing pages.
- Visitor activity and engagement insights.
Everything is presented inside a clean WordPress interface, so you can understand your traffic without leaving your site.
Included in the Free plugin
BimBeau Privacy Analytics on WordPress.org is the complete Free plugin.
Its Free analytics features work without a license, payment, quota, or time limit. No third-party analytics account is required.
The Free plugin also includes configurable data retention, role exclusions, optional Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control handling, privacy settings, country-level geolocation, and real-time analytics.
A separate Pro edition is available from the author outside WordPress.org and replaces the Free plugin when installed.
Privacy and consent
BimBeau Privacy Analytics is designed around privacy-conscious analytics workflows.
Two levels of measurement are available:
- Essential statistics use the base tracker and are intended for situations where consent exemption applies.
- Advanced statistics use an enriched tracker that may require prior consent depending on local rules and your website configuration.
For consent-based setups, configure your consent management platform (CMP) to block bbpa-advanced-tracker / assets/js/bbpa-advanced-tracker.js before consent and release it only after the visitor accepts the Analytics / Statistics category.
BimBeau Privacy Analytics does not provide a consent banner, decide whether consent has been granted, or store consent records.
The plugin does not use tracking cookies or cross-site advertising identifiers. Essential tracking may use a temporary first-party browser storage identifier to group activity, prevent technical duplicate hits, and produce aggregated or anonymized audience statistics. It is not used for advertising, cross-site tracking, or visitor profiling.
BimBeau Privacy Analytics does not make a website GDPR-compliant by itself. Site owners remain responsible for their legal basis, privacy policy, consent configuration, and applicable legal requirements.
Pro edition
BimBeau Privacy Analytics Pro is a separate edition for users who want to go further with their analytics.
Depending on the active license, site configuration, consent setup, and available analytics data, Pro can add:
- Analytics exports for supported reports.
- Page Details for deeper page-level analysis.
- City geolocation reports and interactive map markers.
- Custom event tracking and event configuration.
- Content analytics directly inside WordPress content lists and the editor.
- An installable Stats App for desktop and mobile.
- White-label admin header controls.
- Panel visibility customization for the analytics navigation.
- Additional detailed reports and analysis tools.
Learn more about Pro:
The WordPress.org Free package remains fully usable without the Pro edition.
External services
The core analytics reports use data stored in your WordPress installation. A small number of optional or account-related features can contact external services when they are explicitly configured or used.
BimBeau GeoIP Database Service — Used to download the optional local database for country-level geolocation. Automatic database downloads are disabled by default. A request is made only after an administrator manually requests a download/update or later enables automatic updates. The service can receive the WordPress server IP address and a technical User-Agent; visitor IP addresses are not sent to BimBeau for local GeoIP lookups.
BimBeau GeoIP Database Service
BimBeau Terms of Use
BimBeau Privacy Policy
Referrer favicons — When this optional feature is enabled, the WordPress server may contact a referring website to retrieve its icon. The administrator browser uses the locally stored copy rather than requesting the icon directly from the referring website.
MaxMind — MaxMind API mode is optional and remains disabled until an administrator selects it and provides their own MaxMind credentials. When configured, MaxMind receives the IP address being resolved. The local GeoIP database mode does not use the MaxMind API.
MaxMind GeoLite EULA
MaxMind privacy policy
Freemius — The plugin can use Freemius for account, licensing, pricing, upgrade, support, uninstall, and package-related functionality. These services are separate from the analytics reports stored in WordPress.
Freemius Terms of Service
Freemius Privacy Policy
Documentation and support
Debug logging
Optional diagnostic logging is available for troubleshooting. BimBeau Privacy Analytics writes diagnostic information only when Debug mode is enabled and an appropriate WordPress debug log destination or plugin-safe log destination is available.
Screenshots
Installation
- Install BimBeau Privacy Analytics from the WordPress Plugins screen or upload the plugin manually.
- Activate the plugin.
- Open BimBeau Privacy Analytics from the WordPress admin menu.
- Follow the configuration assistant to choose your analytics and privacy settings.
- If you use advanced statistics where prior consent is required, configure your CMP to control
bbpa-advanced-tracker/assets/js/bbpa-advanced-tracker.js.
You can change all configuration choices later from the plugin settings.
FAQ-e
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Is BimBeau Privacy Analytics free?
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Yes. The WordPress.org edition provides its Free analytics features without a license, payment, quota, or time limit.
A separate Pro edition is available for additional analytics and customization features.
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Where is my analytics data stored?
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Analytics data is stored in your own WordPress database.
Your reports are generated directly from data stored inside your WordPress installation.
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No. BimBeau Privacy Analytics does not use tracking cookies or cross-site advertising identifiers.
Essential tracking may use a temporary first-party browser storage identifier for technical visitor grouping, duplicate-hit prevention, and aggregated or anonymized statistics. It is not used for advertising or cross-site tracking.
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Does BimBeau Privacy Analytics replace a CMP?
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No.
BimBeau Privacy Analytics does not provide a consent banner, decide whether consent has been granted, or store consent records.
When advanced statistics require prior consent, configure your CMP to control the advanced tracker.
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Can I use BimBeau Privacy Analytics alongside Google Analytics or another analytics tool?
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Yes.
BimBeau Privacy Analytics can run alongside other analytics solutions as long as your tracking scripts, consent configuration, and privacy documentation are configured appropriately.
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Can I exclude administrators and other internal users?
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Yes.
Role exclusions can be configured so administrators, editors, contributors, or other internal roles are not included in your analytics according to your website policy.
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Can I track campaign traffic?
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Yes.
Campaign parameters, referrer information, and available acquisition signals can be used to understand traffic from campaigns, search engines, social networks, email, paid traffic, referrals, and other sources.
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What does the Pro edition add?
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The separate Pro edition adds advanced features such as exports, Page Details, city-level geolocation, event tracking, WordPress content analytics, the installable Stats App, white-label controls, and interface customization.
The Pro edition is not required to use the Free plugin.
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Is technical knowledge required?
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No coding is required for normal installation and everyday analytics.
More advanced privacy configurations, especially consent-based tracking, should be configured according to your website’s legal and technical requirements.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“BimBeau Privacy Analytics” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Changelog
8.45.182
Improvements — Refresh the WordPress.org listing with clearer, more engaging content focused on self-hosted, privacy-conscious analytics.
8.45.181
Improvements — Improve the WordPress.org plugin description, screenshot captions, tags, and listing consistency.
Fixes — Fix readme validation after the WordPress.org listing restructure.
8.45.179
Fix and sync WordPress.org screenshot captions in readme.txt.
Correct WordPress.org screenshot captions and links.
Localize the analytics date picker with the active WordPress admin interface locale instead of react-day-picker’s built-in English locale.
Use the active interface locale for admin date/time formatting fallbacks.
Reject pagination translations that accidentally contain placeholders such as %s.
Prevent Previous from being fuzzy-remapped to Previous %s during the Free-package msgmerge pass.
Preserve Next, Rows, and Country translations in the generated Free runtime JSON across all distributed locales.
Generate assets/js/admin-pro.js translation JSON only when the Premium admin source exists.
Apply the same package-aware target selection to the runtime i18n audit.
Use a neutral unified-source marker when selecting runtime translation targets.
8.45.170
Improvements — Separate Previous and Next pagination controls across analytics listings.
Improvements — Restore centered mobile version footer.
Improvements — Restore dashboard KPI navigation.
Improvements — Contain realtime map and table on mobile.
Improvements — Allow shared realtime visits CSS in Free package.
Improvements — Migrate GeoIP database storage under bbpa uploads.
Improvements — Improve content links (animated underline) and limit Dashboard Pages labels to 50 chars.
Improvements — Restrict accent color to listing links.
Fixes — Fix country geolocation visitor scale.
Fixes — Fix aggregated retention cleanup when the object-cache entry for a table has not been initialized.
Fixes — Fix standard SVG favicon validation.
Fixes — Preserve the threshold color scale passed to Nivo so its internal domain assignment cannot replace the legend thresholds, prevent empty or inverted legend ranges, derive the sampled palette from the actual number of valid ranges, and keep country fill colors visible on hover and focus using a stronger outline.
Fixes — Harden admin header branding and package verifiers.
Fixes — Fix admin branding bundle verification.
Fixes — Accept passive SVG favicon structures safely.
Fixes — Update WorldMap stylesheet to use fill-opacity for country hover effects while preserving current fill colors and normal white borders.
Miscellaneous — Require complete, non-fuzzy translations for all distributed locales.
Miscellaneous — Update readme.txt
8.45.134
Build the initial WordPress.org archive