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Koko Analytics – Privacy-Friendly WordPress Analytics
A lightweight privacy win that might occasionally lock your database.
HealthyGrowing
94/100
This lightweight privacy tool earns high praise despite a reported risk of database lockups during updates.
Active installs
~106,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 60k+
Rating
5.0★
236 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+39%
Growing fast
407 → 564 installs/day
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 · +39% in the last year
407/day a year ago→564/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayKoko Analytics is well-regarded as a lightweight, privacy-friendly traffic stats plugin for WordPress, though at least one user reports a serious recurring issue where database migrations after updates can bring down entire servers.
What people like
- +Privacy-friendly: data stays on the server with no reliance on third-party services like Google Analytics×3
- +Simple and easy to use, accessible directly from the WordPress backend×6
- +Lightweight with no noticeable impact on site performance×2
- +Sufficient for basic and small-site analytics needs×4
- +Live reports feature appreciated by users
- +Good support
Common complaints
- −Database migrations triggered by plugin updates can lock up the database for hours, causing entire servers (and co-hosted sites) to go down — reported as a recurring issue across multiple updates
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.99★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 5.00★
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2025-03-112025-11-062026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 236 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-26★★★★★Love it bestnextdoorflowers1-shot
- 2026-05-25★★★★★Great privacy conscious plugin for basic statssylviabass
- 2026-05-19★★★★★Great pluginnathalie75
- 2026-05-10★★★★★Great! Highly recommendedEagleeye1000
- 2026-05-09★★★★★Excelent and simplebocha231-shot
- 2026-05-03★★★★★Great and simpleNobb
- 2026-05-01★★★★★Gets Better With TimePavlo Malynevskyi
- 2026-05-01★★★★★Great!Fabian Umpierre1-shot
- 2026-04-25★★★★★gGeat detailMalaser
- 2026-04-12★★★★★Great Stats Pluginmerlynhern
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Koko Analytics
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.
563
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
602
Prior 7-day baseline
710
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
13,908
Mean release-day peak (30d)
1,356
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-6.5%
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.
9%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
0.37
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
99%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-37%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.99 → 4.99★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered