ConvertNow Analytics: Privacy Friendly Stats, AI Traffic and Bot Filtering

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About this tool

ConvertNow Analytics is free, cookieless WordPress analytics that counts real visitors only. Visitor statistics, page views, referrers, countries and AI traffic in 45+ reports, right inside your dashboard. Bots, AI crawlers, SEO tools and fake browsers are filtered out and shown to you by name, so every number is a person. Here’s the problem. Most analytics tools count anything that loads a page, and a lot of what loads pages today is not human: uptime monitors, SEO scanners, screenshot services and a fast growing crowd of AI bots. Your stats can show several times the traffic you really have. ConvertNow fixes that. A visit only counts when the page actually appears on a screen and someone moves, scrolls, taps or stays for a moment. Everything left out is kept and named under Filtered Traffic, so you can always check what was removed and why. Want to see it first? Press Live Preview above for a full demo with 90 days of sample traffic. See your AI traffic: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Copilot Find out which AI assistants send you real readers and which pages they recommend. Each assistant is its own channel, with its share over time and whether AI traffic is growing faster than the rest of your site. Next to that, see how often GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other AI crawlers read your content, and which pages they read most but never send anyone to. Bot traffic, filtered and explained A chart of people against machines, every refused request by name and hour, and the pages bots hit most. Crawlers, uptime monitors, headless browsers and traffic from cloud servers are refused before anything is stored, so they never pollute your numbers. Every WordPress stat you need, in one dashboard Visitors, visits, page views, real bounce rate and time on page Real time visitors online now, and today’s count in the admin bar Top pages and posts, landing and exit pages, and how far people read Referrers, search engines, social networks and UTM campaigns A world map of your readers, plus languages, browsers and devices Goals, funnels, journeys, retention, segments and cohorts Traffic by author and content type for blogs and publishers WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads revenue by channel and page Outbound link, download, email and phone click tracking Broken link (404) and site search reports A traffic calendar, engagement charts and a chart builder Notes on the chart for launches, newsletters and redesigns Light and dark mode, and every screen works with a keyboard and screen reader Bring your history with you Switching from another tool does not mean starting from zero. Import reads Independent Analytics, Burst Statistics, Koko Analytics, WP Statistics and Matomo straight from your own database, Plausible over its Stats API, and Google Analytics 4 through Beehive Analytics. Any other tool comes in as a CSV, JSON, Excel or zip export, or in the simple ConvertNow format that needs no mapping at all. Every source shows a preview first: a chart of the days, what comes in and what stays out. Only the days before ConvertNow started counting are filled, so nothing is counted twice, and every import can be undone. Presets and default filters One click opens the view you need: search visitors, social, AI assistants, phone readers, blog readers and more, or a preset you saved yourself. A site that serves one country can open on that country every time, with a default for you or for everyone. Add or remove any filter from the filter bar. AI insights that run on your own server Press one button and get a plain English brief of what changed: unusual days and their likely cause, sources that grew or dropped, pages that are rising or fading, pages people love but few find, and a 30 day forecast. Every finding is tested against your own traffic, so it only speaks up when something really happened. No chatbot and no outside service is involved. Built for agencies too Switch on Agency mode and the dashboard, shared link and emails carry your name, logo and colours. Pick one of seven palettes, each in light and dark, or build your own. Give clients a read only login that shows only the reports you choose, with a note from you and a Help link to your support. Invite clients in one step, send them a branded monthly report, and lock Settings so a client’s own administrators cannot undo your setup. Set a site up once, download its settings profile, and apply it on every other client site with a preview of each change. All free. A privacy friendly Google Analytics alternative No cookies, nothing stored on the visitor’s device, and no raw IP addresses kept. Visitors are counted with a daily changing anonymous code, so nobody is followed from one day to the next. Your data stays in your own WordPress database and is never sent to anyone. Many sites run it without a cookie banner for analytics. Fast, light and works with your setup The tracker is about 1.5 KB and loads from your own site, so most ad blockers leave it alone. It works with page caching and CDNs, tells WP Rocket, LiteSpeed Cache, Perfmatters, SiteGround Optimizer, FlyingPress, Autoptimize, W3 Total Cache and Hummingbird not to delay it, and reads visitor countries from Cloudflare when your site sits behind it. Reports read from daily summaries, so a year of data loads as fast as a day. Stay in the loop without logging in A summary email every day, week, two weeks or month, with what stood out and your key numbers Alerts by email, Slack or Discord when traffic drops, spikes or tracking stops A tracking health check that tests itself every hour and tells you if something is wrong A read only link to share your dashboard, plus CSV and JSON export Share cards: save an image of your AI traffic or your year in real people Today’s visitors and bots refused, right in the admin bar No account. No upsell. Nothing locked. There is no paid version, no license key and no account to create. Every feature is free for every site. Links: Documentation · Support forum · contact@convertnow.tools External services Tracking, reporting, goals, funnels, journeys, retention, segments, cohorts, insights, alerts, country lookups and exports all run on your own server against your own database. There is no activation call, no licence check and no key. Nothing about your visitors ever leaves your site under any setting. The plugin makes the background requests below, and each one can be switched off. Apple iCloud Private Relay exit list (on by default) Once a week the plugin downloads https://mask-api.icloud.com/egress-ip-ranges.csv , the list Apple publishes of the addresses Private Relay traffic leaves from. It is used only so that Safari readers using Private Relay are not refused as data centre traffic. The request sends nothing but your server’s own address, the way any download does. Switch it off in Settings, Tracking, Data centre addresses. Apple’s terms: apple.com/legal/internet-services/terms/site.html . Apple’s privacy policy: apple.com/legal/privacy . Site icons (on by default) Icons for the major search engines, social networks and AI assistants ship inside the plugin and need no request at all. For any other referring site, the plugin fetches its icon in the background from the site’s own address (its home page and /favicon.ico , then the parent domain for a subdomain). When a site refuses requests from servers, the icon is fetched from DuckDuckGo’s public icon service at https://icons.duckduckgo.com/ip3/ , which is told the site’s host name and nothing else. Fetched icons are stored under uploads and served from your own site; opening the dashboard requests nothing from anybody else. Switch fetching off in Settings, Display, Site icons (bundled icons still show), or keep it and stop only the DuckDuckGo fallback with the cnwa_icon_fallback_service filter. DuckDuckGo’s terms: duckduckgo.com/terms . DuckDuckGo’s privacy policy: duckduckgo.com/privacy . Alert webhook (off by default) If you enter a webhook address under Settings, Alerts, each alert is posted to that address, and only to that address. The request carries the alert’s title and sentence, your site’s address and a link to the dashboard. Where it goes is the service you chose, under that service’s own terms. Report a bug (only when you press Send) Settings has a Report a bug card. When an administrator presses Send report, your site’s own mail sends one email to contact@convertnow.tools, the author’s support address, with the description and reply address you typed and, unless you untick it, a diagnostic report. The report is shown in full on that screen before you send it: your site address, WordPress, PHP and database versions, active plugins and theme, this plugin’s settings with every address and email field left out, Tracking health, daily totals, table sizes and the plugin’s own lines from the debug log, with any address in them masked. It never contains visitor IP addresses, visitor hashes, page paths or anything else about your visitors. Nothing is sent at any other time. The same report can be downloaded as a text file instead. Anonymous usage reporting (off by default) If, and only if, you switch this on, the plugin sends one report a month, and one after each plugin update, to convertnow.tools, the author’s site, at https://convertnow.tools/wp-json/cnwa-hub/v1/report . It exists so the author can see which versions are in use and how the plugin is actually being used, and it is used for nothing else. It is off on every install. You are asked once, on the plugin’s own screen and only after the plugin has a week of your own data, with the exact payload from your site shown to you before you decide. Declining is remembered permanently. If you never answer, nothing is ever sent. You can switch it on or off at any time in Settings, Data retention, Anonymous usage report. Switching it off removes the scheduled event immediately and sends one last request to the same address, carrying only your site address, the ins

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Getting started

Go to Plugins, Add New and search for ConvertNow Analytics . Click Install Now , then Activate . Open ConvertNow in the admin menu. That’s it. No key, no account and no setup. Counting starts right away, and the map fills in on its own because country data is built in. Your own visits are not counted while you are logged in as an administrator or editor, so the numbers start at zero until real readers arrive. Want to look around first? Switch on Test mode at the top of the Stats screen to fill every report with a sample coffee shop, then switch back to Live whenever you like. Your real visits keep counting the whole time.

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Frequently asked questions

Is it a good Google Analytics alternative? For most WordPress sites, yes. It covers the reports people open Google Analytics for, like visitors, pages, referrers, campaigns, countries, devices, goals, funnels and shop revenue, right inside WordPress, with no cookies and no data sent anywhere. It does not build advertising audiences or track people across sites, on purpose. Is it GDPR friendly? Do I need a cookie banner? It sets no cookies, stores nothing on the visitor’s device, never keeps raw IP addresses and keeps all data on your own server. That is why many sites use it without a consent banner for analytics. Rules differ by country and by what else your site runs, so check with your own legal advisor. Can it track traffic from ChatGPT and other AI assistants? Yes. Visits from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, DeepSeek and other assistants get their own AI channel, with the pages each one sends people to. AI crawlers like GPTBot and ClaudeBot are kept separate and shown under Filtered Traffic, because a crawler is not a reader. What is the difference between an AI visitor and an AI crawler? An AI crawler is a bot that reads your pages to train or feed an AI. It is refused and listed by name. An AI visitor is a real person who read an answer in ChatGPT or another assistant and clicked through to your site. Only real people count as traffic. Will it slow down my site? No. The tracker is tiny, there is no outside script to load, and a visit is recorded before the rest of WordPress starts. Reports read from daily summaries, so the dashboard stays quick on large sites. Does it work with caching plugins, ad blockers and Cloudflare? Yes. Cached pages still report their visits, popular speed plugins are told to leave the tracker alone, and the tracker loads from your own site so most ad blockers do not stop it. Behind Cloudflare, visitor countries come straight from Cloudflare. Tracking health checks your live pages and tells you if anything is still in the way. Does it work with WooCommerce? Yes. WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads orders are linked to the visit that produced them, so you see revenue by channel, campaign, landing page and author. Totals follow your shop’s own rules, so they match what WooCommerce reports. Why are my numbers lower than Jetpack, Google Analytics or my host’s stats? Usually for good reasons: Bots are removed. ConvertNow refuses crawlers, monitors and AI bots that other tools partly count. A visit needs a person. A page has to appear on screen and see some sign of a real reader. Your team is not counted. Logged in administrators and editors are skipped by default. It started counting when you installed it. Earlier days are empty, not quiet. Filtered Traffic shows exactly what was left out, so a lower number can be checked rather than taken on trust. Is the AI insights screen actually AI? It is machine learning, not a chatbot. Statistical models are fitted to your own traffic and every finding has to pass a test before it is shown. It all runs on your server and nothing is sent to an AI service. Can I use it on client sites? Yes. Agency mode puts your name, logo and colours on the dashboard, shared link and emails, and gives clients a read only login limited to the reports you pick. Clients get a login in one step and a branded report by email, Settings can be locked to your own people, and one settings profile carries the whole setup, logo included, to every other client site with a preview before anything changes. It is free like everything else. Do I need an account or a license key? No. There is no account, no key, no activation and no paid tier. The few optional background requests the plugin makes are listed under External services below, each with its own switch. Can I count returning visitors? Yes, but it is off by default. Settings, Tracking, Visitor recognition lets you recognise the same reader for 30, 90 or 365 days. Turning it on changes how visitor data is handled, so update your privacy policy first. Can I get alerts in Slack? Yes. Add a webhook address under Settings, Alerts. Slack, Discord and most chat tools show the alerts as normal messages. Will filtering cloud servers drop my VPN readers? A few, possibly. Some VPNs exit from cloud servers that look the same as bots. Those visits are counted under Filtered Traffic, not lost, and there is a switch in Settings if you would rather count them. Safari readers using iCloud Private Relay are recognised and counted. Can I import my history from Google Analytics or another plugin? Yes. Go to ConvertNow, Import. Independent Analytics, Burst Statistics, Koko Analytics, WP Statistics and Matomo are read straight from your database, Plausible over its Stats API with a key you paste for that import, and Google Analytics 4 through Beehive Analytics when it is connected. For anything else, export daily figures as CSV, JSON, Excel or a zip, or write them in the ConvertNow format, and drop the file in. The file is read in your browser and only daily totals are sent to your site. Only days before ConvertNow started counting are filled, and alerts and comparisons leave imported days out, because another tool counted them by its own rules. Can the dashboard always open on one country? Yes. Add the filter, open Presets and choose Make these my default, or Make these the default for everyone if you are an administrator. Filtered views read raw pageviews, so they reach back as far as your raw data setting, 90 days by default. Can I see page views and visitors for each post and page? Yes. Pages, Blog Posts, Landing Pages and Exit Pages list views, visitors, time on page and read depth for every address, with a chart of how they change over time. Click any page to filter the whole dashboard by it. Does it show real time visitors? Yes. The Stats screen shows how many people are on your site right now, and the admin bar shows today’s visitors on every page of your site to administrators. Where is my data stored? In your own WordPress database, in tables starting with cnwa_ . Uninstalling keeps your data by default, so a reinstall picks up where you left off. Switch on full removal in Settings to delete everything when you uninstall.

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