80
Relief for privacy advocates who want simple stats without the bloat
HealthyDeclining
80/100
Users love this lightweight tool for its privacy focus and easy setup.
Active installs
~150,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 100k+
Rating
4.8★
50 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-41%
Declining fast
391 → 232 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 41% vs a year ago
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
Declining fast · -41% in the last year
391/day a year ago→232/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayStatify is a well-regarded, lightweight WordPress stats plugin praised for its simplicity and strong privacy-first approach, with no notable recurring complaints from users.
What people like
- +Privacy-friendly: no cookies, no third-party data sharing, and GDPR-compliant×7
- +Lightweight and simple to set up — works immediately after installation×6
- +Provides useful basic stats: top pages and referrer sources at a glance×4
- +Dashboard widget gives a quick overview of current traffic×2
- +Reported to be accurate — page view counts validated against external tools
- +Responsive and fast support
- +Compatible with ClassicPress
- +Extensible via add-ons (e.g. Statify Extended Evaluation) for deeper analysis
Common complaints
- −Less full-featured than alternatives like Jetpack Stats or Google Analytics×2
- −Missing ability to filter stats by a specific date to see which pages were viewed on a given day
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.78★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.80★
- 4%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-09-182025-02-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 50 total
Latest reviews · 51 analyzed
- 2025-12-28★★★★★Simple, Honest Analytics for WordPressArne Midtlund
- 2025-05-19★★★★★Extremely light, useful (and privacy respecting!!) pluginMihail Bogatov
- 2024-12-16★★★★★Simple, privacy-friendly statskelson
- 2024-08-03★★★★★Supi, übersichtlich, klarmehralsheidi
- 2023-10-18★★★★★Just simple stats.00Sleepy
- 2023-08-20★★★★★Changed to Statify because of GDPR and after 4 years now: missing nothingwinterfjell
- 2023-03-18★★★★★Sehr gutes Statistik-Pluginblacckmamba
- 2023-03-04★★★★★Really Nicecit1000
- 2023-02-06★★★★★Übersichtlich einfache Statistikenpasiro
- 2023-02-02★★★★★Cool Tool but somethings missingfelixkottek
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor 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.
234
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
219
Prior 7-day baseline
213
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
234
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+6.8%
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.
17%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
2.16
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
88%
5★ share in analyzed sample
4%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.76 → 4.78★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered