About this plugin
Corvet Stats answers the questions a content or affiliate site owner actually has: what gets read, where the traffic comes from, and which pages send clicks to partners.
It sets no cookies, uses no browser storage, stores no IP addresses and sends nothing to third parties. Statistics are stored as small daily counters in your own database, so the data stays on your server.
Affiliate and outbound click tracking, no setup
- Every click on a link to another domain is counted.
- Links with rel="sponsored" are counted.
- Cloaked affiliate links on your own domain (Pretty Links, ThirstyAffiliates, manual redirects) are counted by path prefix ( /go/, /out/, /recommends/, /refer/ by default, changeable with a filter).
- See which page sent which click to which destination, the click rate of every page and category, and a list of pages that have traffic but no clicks.
What the dashboard shows (Tools → Corvet Stats, 7 / 30 / 90 / 365 days)
- Pageviews and unique visitors with comparison to the previous period
- Click rate, pages per visitor, average time on page
- Content clusters: the same numbers grouped by primary category (Yoast primary category is respected)
- Top pages, traffic sources, outbound destinations
- Clicks and click rate by device and by country
- Traffic by hour of day, top page-to-page transitions
Built for real sites
- Works with full-page caching: tracking uses a tiny script and a REST endpoint.
- Bot filtering, signed page tokens and a per-visitor daily event limit protect the tracking endpoint from floods and fake data.
- Logged-in editors and administrators are not counted.
- Old data is removed automatically (400 days; page-to-page transitions 90 days).
- Uninstalling removes all plugin data.
Countries are optional. The plugin never calls IP-lookup services and does not bundle a geo database. It reads the visitor’s country from your server or CDN (Cloudflare, or a GeoIP module on your server).
Without a source, the Countries box is simply hidden.
Privacy
Corvet Stats does not set cookies, does not use localStorage or sessionStorage, and does not store IP addresses or any per-visitor record. It stores daily aggregated counters: pageviews and unique-visitor totals per page, referrer domains, countries, device types, time on page, clicks on outbound links, and internal page-to-page navigation. A short anonymous hash of IP address, user agent, date and a secret key is kept for at most two days to count visitors once per day and to limit abusive traffic.
No data is sent to third parties.