WP Statistics – Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative

Registro de cambios

14.16.10 – 2026-07-25

• Fix: Prevented a fatal error on the tracking request when the referrer parameter was sent as an array instead of a single value.
• Enhancement: General security hardening and internal improvements.

14.16.9 – 2026-07-21

• Fix: Content Analytics no longer adds the site-wide historical baseline into each post’s Total Views, so per-post totals are accurate again (issue #1097).
• Fix: Prevented a fatal error on admin load when license validation fails or the license key is empty.
• Enhancement: Hardened input handling and output escaping across the visitor and referral reports.

14.16.8 – 2026-05-19

• Enhancement: Hardened input handling across admin AJAX endpoints, the dynamic query builder, the referrer pipeline, and the GeoIP download URL.
• Enhancement: Removed the bundled moment.min.js in favor of the copy shipped with WordPress core.
• Enhancement: Added direct-file-access guards, switched date() calls to gmdate(), and routed parse_url() through wp_parse_url().
• Enhancement: Normalized translator placeholders and text domains; routed translated UI strings through escape/kses functions.
• Enhancement: Replaced direct unlink() calls in plugin code with wp_delete_file().

14.16.7 – 2026-05-12

• Enhancement: Hardened escaping and sanitization in device reports.
• Enhancement: Tracking endpoints now send noindex and no-cache headers to prevent «ghost pages» in Google Search Console.
• Fix: Stopped GeoLite2-City background downloads on Cloudflare IP Geolocation sites (issue #1093).
• Fix: «Bypass Ad Blockers» no longer copies the tracker into uploads, improving compatibility with hardened hosting.
• Fix: Run Migration button stays clickable during an active migration to recover stuck queues.
• Deprecated: wp_statistics_hashed_asset_root and wp_statistics_hashed_asset_dir filters; will be removed in a future release.

14.16.6 – 2026-04-16

• Fix: Removed legacy TinyMCE integration that caused «Failed to load plugin» errors in the classic editor, especially with themes like Corvix and Avada.
• Fix: Excluded browser prefetch and prerender requests that were inflating visit counts.
• Fix: Excluded headless browsers and automation tools (Headless Chrome, PhantomJS, Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium) that were being counted as real visitors.

14.16.5 – 2026-04-11

• Enhancement: Simplify WP Consent API consent level logic.
• Enhancement: Hardened plugin security and improvement
• Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress v7.0
• Fix: Fixed an issue where the download/link tracker did not respect user role exclusion settings (e.g., Administrator), causing admin downloads to be recorded despite being excluded.

14.16.4 – 2026-03-16

• Fix: Improved permission checks on AJAX handlers for better security.
• Enhancement: Updated Device Detector library (6.4.7 → 6.5.0) with latest browser, device, and bot detection rules.
• Enhancement: Updated MaxMind DB Reader (1.12.1 → 1.13.1) and GeoIP2 libraries.

14.16.3 – 2025-02-23

• Fix: Minor improvements and fix version.

14.16.1 – 2025-02-09

• Fix: Fixed an issue where historical data was not included in single-content/single-resource reports.
• Fix: Improved compatibility with Bedrock when WP Statistics is placed in mu-plugins by fixing asset hashing and obfuscated tracker path resolution.
• Fix: Fixed an issue where the Page ID was not correctly updated during Interactivity API navigation and barba.js transitions.
• Fix: Prevent infinite or extremely large percentage values when no previous analytics data exists.
• Fix: Fixed the «All Time» filter showing incorrect start date in single content analytics.
• Fix: Fixed notification indicators hiding when viewing the empty Dismissed tab.
• Fix: Optimized license API caching to prevent excessive requests on multilingual sites.
• Fix: Resolved unsafe SQL calls and direct file access issues for WordPress.org compliance.
• New: Added «Total» row to the Traffic Summary widget showing all-time Visitors and Views (includes legacy historical data).
• Enhancement: Added pagination support for Category Analytics.
• Enhancement: Unified disabled premium buttons across the plugin for a consistent look.
• Enhancement: Added PHP environment configuration values (memory_limit, max_execution_time, post_max_size, upload_max_filesize) to anonymous usage data.
• Enhancement: Updated Advanced Reporting premium modal copies.
• Dev: Added wp_statistics_register_background_jobs filter to allow add-ons to register custom background processes.
• Dev: Added wp_statistics_register_data_migrations filter to allow add-ons to register custom data migration keys.
• Dev: Added wp_statistics_resolve_page_from_uri filter to allow custom page resolution from URL for SPA tracking.

14.16 – 2025-12-01

• New: Added an Export button to all report pages (requires the Advanced Reporting add-on).
• New: Introduced a new Summary Totals table to store daily aggregated data, improving performance.
• Enhancement: Tested up to WordPress v6.9.
• Enhancement: Updated minimum PHP requirement to v7.4 and WordPress requirement to v6.6.
• Enhancement: Redesigned Summary widgets across all report pages for a cleaner and more consistent look.
• Enhancement: Optimized database queries and improved overall performance.
• Enhancement: Improved the online tracking system by removing heartbeat requests, reducing server load and improving performance.
• Deprecation: Removed the Matomo Referrer Spam Blacklist option from the settings.

For more information about the major update, please visit our release post or follow @wp_statistics on Twitter

See changelog for all versions.