Leave Google Analytics without starting from zero.

Vireo is a free WordPress plugin that brings your old numbers with you. Then it puts the searches that found each post on that post's stats screen, and shows how much AI assistants take from your site against the readers they send back.

No cookies, no consent banner. Your visitor data stays in your own database.

The Vireo overview for the last 30 days on a demo blog: pageviews up 35% on the period before, with most of the rise from one post, and pageviews, visitors and average daily traffic each with their change.

Bring your history from

Your daily pageviews and top pages carry across, so your charts don't start on the day you switched. What each source brings.

See what people searched before they landed.

Google stopped passing search terms to websites in 2013, so analytics plugins see a visit from Google and nothing else. Connect Search Console once and every post's stats screen lists the searches it appeared for, with clicks and average position beside each one.

A search where the post already gets clicks from page two is the one to work on next. The search term tells you what the reader came for.

Searches that found one post, How to pack for a month with one carry-on, each with its clicks and average position: one bag travel packing list leads with 1,459 clicks at position 6.2.

What AI takes, against what it sends back.

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot show up as their own traffic source. Next to the readers they send, Vireo counts the pages their crawlers fetched, so you can see the ratio for your site rather than guess at it. Which AI crawlers it knows.

It works on the history you've already collected, not only from the day you install.

AI assistants card: 104,932 pages their crawlers took, 373 readers they sent back, 281 pages taken per reader returned, with readers sent by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini.

It opens with what moved since last time.

The overview leads with the change since the previous period and the page behind it, and the daily chart draws the period before alongside, so a spike stands out against what normal looked like. Notes pinned to a date keep the reason for a spike next to the spike. Page speed comes from your real visitors, graded the way Google grades it.

Daily pageviews and visitors for 30 days, with the prior period marked on each day and one spike on September 22.

Bots kept out, and a count of what it left out.

Over eight hundred known crawlers, uptime monitors, SEO tools and headless browsers are kept out of your numbers. Instead of hiding them, Vireo reports how many it excluded and why, so a lower number than your server logs makes sense. Browse the bot directory.

234,227 requests kept out of the numbers, 88.7% of what Vireo saw, split into AI crawlers, search engines, SEO tools, scripts and clients, and uptime monitors.

Pages, sources and countries at a glance.

Top pages, referrers grouped by how people arrived, and where in the world they were reading from. Filter the overview by device, country or source to see one slice of your audience.

Top pages with their change on the period before, referrers grouped into direct, search, AI assistants, social and referral, and top countries on a map and a list.

Import, then keep going.

Vireo spots the analytics plugins whose data is still on your site and offers to import them. Pick a source, press import, and Vireo pulls your history in batches you can watch. It asks before importing a range you've already brought in, so nothing gets counted twice by accident.

The Import data settings: Koko Analytics found on this site with a button to import it, and buttons for Jetpack Stats, Statify, WP Statistics, Burst Statistics, Independent Analytics, SlimStat Analytics, Google Analytics 4 and Plausible Analytics.

Nothing for a consent banner to ask about.

No cookies

Nothing is stored on your visitors' devices. Visitor counts come from a salted hash that rotates every day.

Your database

Visitor data stays in your WordPress database. It isn't sent to Vireo or anyone else.

Do Not Track honored

Visitors who send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control aren't tracked, with no setting to switch on.

Vireo Pro, for sites that sell.

Pro adds goals and funnels, revenue from WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and FluentCart, a live view, entry and exit pages, and campaign tracking. It's in testing now.

Free on WordPress.org

  • Pageviews, visitors and top content
  • Google Analytics 4 and Plausible history, plus seven plugin importers
  • Search Console per post
  • AI assistant traffic
  • Real-visitor page speed
  • Nine languages
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