Documentation
Welcome to the GreenOrb Statistics documentation. GreenOrb Statistics is a privacy-friendly,
self-hosted analytics plugin for WordPress: your visitor data stays in your own
database, there are no third-party tracking services, and your reports load
without any external calls.
This guide walks through every screen in the plugin, what each number means, and
how to get the most out of it.
Contents
Getting started
- Installation & first run
- Understanding your metrics — views vs. visitors vs. sessions, bounce rate, and engaged time on page
- Why your numbers may look lower than other plugins — bot filtering, the Filtered-traffic receipt, and how to verify nothing is missing
- Bot detection explained — the two layers, the session input chips, the 🤖 suspected-bot badge, and your verdicts
Core reports
- Overview dashboard
- Reports: traffic over time
- Visitors
- Sessions — per-visit detail, the three-part Engaged definition, and the per-session input signal
- Referrers & traffic sources
- Geography
- Devices
Content & behaviour
- Content reports: posts, authors, categories, tags
- Entry & exit pages
- Journeys
- Media: plays & downloads (Pro)
- Goals & conversions (Pro)
- Forms (Pro)
- Broken pages (404s)
- Core Web Vitals (Pro)
WooCommerce
Tools & configuration
- Ask AI (Pro)
- Email reports — scheduled digests, plus traffic spike alerts (Pro)
- Settings & Privacy
- At a glance: outside the plugin’s menu — the Dashboard widget, the post stats box and admin bar live stats
A note on the screenshots. The images in this guide were captured from a mix
of a live production site and a demonstration site seeded with sample data, at
different times and with different date ranges selected. Figures therefore vary
from image to image and won’t always agree with each other or with the
surrounding text — the screenshots show what each screen looks like, not one
consistent dataset. Minor details may also differ slightly from the current
plugin version.