How It Works
From page view to report.
What happens behind the scenes when someone visits your site, and how it ends up on your dashboard.
The journey of a visit
Four steps, all on your own server.
Stats Audit adds a small script to your site’s pages. It reports each visit back to your WordPress site, which stores it and builds the reports.
1
A visitor opens a page
The page address and title, the referring site and any UTM tags in the link are sent to your WordPress site in the background.
2
Filters are applied
Requests from bots, crawlers and link previews are ignored. If Exclude Admins is on, your own visits are skipped too.
3
The visitor leaves
When the tab is closed or hidden, the time spent on the page is sent and added to that visit.
4
You open the dashboard
Pick a period, switch between visits and time, filter by country, and read the reports.
Setting up
No tracking code. No account.
Everything is done from your WordPress admin.
Install
Upload the zip under Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin, then activate it. The database table is created for you.
Adjust Settings
Open Stats Audit > Settings to set a display name, exclude administrators and turn country lookup on or off.
Read Your Reports
Open Stats Audit > Dashboard. Reports fill in as visits arrive.
Ready to try it?
Install Stats Audit in a couple of minutes and watch the first visits arrive.