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CAOS | Host Google Analytics Locally
Boost your PageSpeed scores by hosting your analytics scripts locally.
Growing
77/100
It delivers genuine speed improvements through local hosting despite many contentless reviews.
Active installs
~15,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 10k+
Rating
4.9★
128 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+310%
Growing fast
208 → 853 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MAJORnear-100% 5★ in bursty pattern
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +310% in the last year
208/day a year ago→853/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayCAOS is widely praised for reliably hosting Google Analytics locally to boost page speed and offering strong support, though a user reports occasional data gaps.
What people like
- +Improves page speed by hosting Google Analytics locally, reducing PageSpeed and LCP impact×4
- +Hosts Google Analytics script locally and keeps it up-to-date automatically via WordPress cron×3
- +Lightweight and well-designed code with many features
- +Compatible with a wide range of Google Analytics and cookie-notice plugins
- +Enables running both Universal Analytics (UA) and GA4 in parallel
- +Pro version’s stealth mode works across all browsers, including Brave
- +Responsive and helpful developer support×2
- +Stable over long term with no reported issues after years of use
- +Simplifies IP anonymization for analytics
- +Automatic updates keep the analytics script current
Common complaints
- −Some users experience missing analytics data compared to alternative solutions
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.94★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.90★
- 2%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 33% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-11-172025-03-112026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 128 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2025-11-28★★★★★Great for having google analytics without detrimental google page speed scoreskatmacau
- 2024-02-22★★★★★Superlative, full of many features, great support and works perfectly.Fabio Perri
- 2023-10-19★★★★★Perfectshredengineer
- 2023-05-31★★★★★Super pluginTheophilus Opoku Bannor
- 2023-05-17★★★★★Nice pluginCarlosPiresAdv
- 2022-10-06★★★★★Amazing resultsruss19
- 2022-06-29★★★★★Отлично, нареканий нет.fedor77
- 2022-06-09★★★★★Headache Preventer!jyllstuart
- 2022-05-20★★★★★Just thank youJeriss Cloud Center
- 2022-04-14★★★★★Great plugin!user214
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to CAOS
Top Analytics plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
822
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
887
Prior 7-day baseline
799
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
822
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-7.3%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
33%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.11
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
98%
5★ share in analyzed sample
2%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.94 → 4.94★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered