
Turf is a self-hosted, cookieless analytics plugin. No Google Analytics, no
Jetpack, no external network calls – everything is measured and stored in your
own WordPress database.
Why Turf
- Cookieless. Visitor deduplication uses a one-way hash of IP + user-agent,
never a cookie and never the raw IP address. - Self-hosted. All data lives in your own database; nothing is sent to any
third party. - Zero configuration. Every public post type and taxonomy is tracked
automatically, including ones you add later.
What it tracks
- Page views (deduplicated and raw), unique visitors, views per visitor, and
average visit duration - Device, browser, operating system, language, and country (via Cloudflare’s
header when available – no GeoIP lookups) - Referrers / traffic sources, UTM campaign parameters, and automatic outbound
link tracking (full destination URL + the page clicked from) - New vs. returning visitors, scroll depth, and reading time
- On-site search terms, including zero-result searches
- Visitor routes (page-to-page transitions), landing pages, and a bounce-rate
proxy – all reconstructed from sessions - Cache offload: how much traffic is served by a page cache (SiteGround,
Cloudflare, …) instead of hitting WordPress - 404 hits, comments per period, editorial content activity, per-author stats
- Bots & LLM crawlers (Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, …) – tracked server-side
and kept separate from human visitor numbers - WooCommerce funnel (views, add to cart, checkout) and form submissions
(Contact Form 7, Gravity Forms) when those plugins are active
The admin pages use native WordPress postboxes: collapsible, draggable,
hideable via Screen Options, and styled by your admin color scheme. The
interface is English and ships with a full Dutch (nl_NL) translation.
Screenshots

Statistics overview - views, visitors, device/browser/OS breakdowns, cache offload, peak hours, and top pages and posts for the selected period.

Analysis - landing pages with bounce rate, on-site search terms (including zero-result searches), trending content, and per-author stats.

Bots & LLMs - crawler and AI-bot visits (Googlebot, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, ...) tracked separately from human visitors, with the pages they crawl most.