About this plugin
js) on your site – the same
net gives you, with every setting from it – right
where you want the counter to appear.
- Paste what you copied. Paste the code you got on stats4u.net – HTML,
BBCode, Markdown, the script code or just the image address – or only the
counter number. Design, colors, size and every other setting you chose there
come along. No counter yet? One button takes you to the free creator on
net, and a button at its end brings the code back.
- Placed right, with any theme. Below your theme’s footer (the default),
inside it, at the end of the page, below posts and pages, or fixed in a
corner – on all pages, only on the front page or only on single posts and
pages. Or place it yourself with the block “Stats4U counter” or the
shortcode [stats4u].
- Consent built in. Choose your consent tool and the counter loads only
after the visitor agreed. Supported: Axeptio, Borlabs Cookie 3, CCM19,
eu, consentmanager, Cookie
co), Cookie Information, Cookie-Script, CookieAdmin,
Cookiebot, CookieConsent 3, CookieFirst, CookieHub, CookieYes (also legacy
, OneTrust /
CookiePro, Osano, Real Cookie Banner, Termly, Usercentrics and the WP
Consent API – or any tool that blocks scripts, with your own attributes.
- Statistics worth reading. Every count carries the page and where the
visitor came from; on top come time on page, scroll depth and who is online
right now. net.
- Light. The script is 12.6 kB over the wire (Brotli, measured on
2026-09-26) and cached for an hour; each page view adds the counter image
(about half a kilobyte) and one tiny settings request.
- No cookie. The script sets none and stores nothing on the device.
- No account. Your counter number is all you need.
- Size, language, dark mode, what to count. Sharp at any size for the
modern designs; the words in the counter in the language of your choice or
of each page; light, dark or following the device; every page view or
unique visitors.
A ready-made paragraph for your privacy policy is at
net/privacy-embed – tailored to your counter number, in
19 languages.
net.
The settings page is written in English and ready for translation on
org; WordPress installs the translation for your language
by itself once it is there.
External services
net/), the
visitor counter service it is made for. Without it, the plugin does nothing.
What is sent and when:
- On every page view of your site that shows the counter, the visitor’s
js (cached for up to an hour).
The script then:
- loads the counter image from https://www.stats4u.net/index.php
( action=pic ) with the counter number, the design settings, the address
of the page, the address the visitor came from (referrer), the language
of the page and a random number against caching. Stats4U counts the
visit from this request.
- asks once per page for the counter’s own settings ( action=cfg: does it
refresh itself, count clicks, have a public statistics page) – with the
counter number only.
- when the visitor leaves the page or switches away from it, sends how
many seconds the page was visible, how far down it was scrolled (in
percent), the page address and – for a page that was loaded normally –
its load time ( action=puls ). Stats4U sorts these into ranges and adds
them up per day.
- while the page is visible, sends the counter number once a minute, at
most 120 times ( action=ping ), for the “online now” figure. This counts
nothing.
- sends an event ( action=event ) when a visitor clicks an element you
marked with data-s4u-event – or, only if you switched this on for your
net, any link. The event name is the link’s target,
shortened to its host or path.
- only if the code you pasted contains data-screen="1" (a choice in the
net): the screen size, the window size and the pixel
ratio, sent together with the time on page.
Like any request to another server, these carry the visitor’s IP address
and the browser’s user agent. No cookie is set and nothing is stored on the
visitor’s device. If you chose a consent tool, none of this happens before
the visitor agreed.
- On the plugin’s settings page and in the block editor, your own browser
loads a preview image of the counter, marked “display only” (rl=1) so that
it is not counted.
- If you click “Create a free counter on stats4u.net”, your browser opens
net with the address of this settings page as a parameter
( wpback ), so that a button at the end of the creator can bring the code
back. That address is only used for that button.
- If you click “Request a new counter number”, your browser asks
php ( action=wpneu ) for a free counter
number, sending only the language of your admin area. Nothing is created
there until the counter is first seen on your site.
- If you send feedback from the settings page, your browser sends your
php ( action=wpfeedback ),
together with the plugin version and the language of your admin area – plus
your email address if you enter one, and your site address and counter
number only if you tick the box for them. The message is stored so that it
can be answered, and the operator is notified through Telegram. Nothing is
sent before you click “Send feedback”.
- Your WordPress server itself never contacts stats4u.net.
The Stats4U script links the counter to its statistics page,
net/live/ – as on every site that uses
net. This link comes from the service, not from the
plugin. net links to the
net, instead.
The service is provided by LW IT Solutions Company Lukas Wójcik, Łódź, Poland:
- Terms of use: https://www.stats4u.net/terms
- Privacy policy: https://www.stats4u.net/privacy
- Paragraph for your own privacy policy: https://www.stats4u.net/privacy-embed