Stats4U

Description

The plugin puts the official Stats4U script (s4u.js) on your site – the same
code the creator on stats4u.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
  stats4u.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,
  Civic Cookie Control, Complianz, consented.eu, consentmanager, Cookie
  Compliance (Hu-manity.co), Cookie Information, Cookie-Script, CookieAdmin,
  Cookiebot, CookieConsent 3, CookieFirst, CookieHub, CookieYes (also legacy
  mode), Didomi, GDPR Cookie Compliance (Moove), iubenda, Klaro!, 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. You read it all on stats4u.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
https://www.stats4u.net/privacy-embed – tailored to your counter number, in
19 languages.

The words in the counter come in 19 languages – the same as on stats4u.net.
The settings page is written in English and ready for translation on
translate.wordpress.org; WordPress installs the translation for your language
by itself once it is there.

External services

This plugin loads the script of Stats4U (https://www.stats4u.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
  browser loads https://www.stats4u.net/s4u.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
    counter on stats4u.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
    creator on stats4u.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
  stats4u.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
  https://www.stats4u.net/index.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
  message to https://www.stats4u.net/index.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,
https://www.stats4u.net/live/ – as on every site that uses
the code from stats4u.net. This link comes from the service, not from the
plugin. A counter that is set to “not public” on stats4u.net links to the
Stats4U home page, https://www.stats4u.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

Technical details