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Using Koko Analytics with Wordpress
There are plenty of analytics tools on the market. Google Analytics is the most well known, but Bing, among others, offers a platform as well. There are also local solutions which collect analytics without third parties, but require elevated privileges in most environments. Koko Analytics is a free, open source solution which works inside of WordPress.
Koko Analytics works on shared hosting, it works independent of Nginx, Apache, or any web server since it is truly integrated into WordPress. It’s privacy oriented and doesn’t require any third party integration. You get less data back, but it keeps you compliant with every major standard (like GDPR) without any work. We’ll go over why you should use it, what it is good for, what to know about it, and whether it will fit you or not.
Why Should You Use It?
One of the first arguments for using it is a more selfish one. You stop using a third party and bring data in house again, which means you don’t need to worry about compliance outside of your site. This may not be a huge deal to most people, but it makes you GDPR compliant without any fancy work to a privacy policy, and gives your users privacy.
Privacy compliance is getting hard and harder to ensure. When you involve a third party, you’re at the mercy of their policy and your inertia to stay…
