Cookieless analytics for Joomla

The statistics are GDPR compliant by design. StatJolt sets no cookies and collects no personal
data, so most sites need no consent banner at all.

Nothing lands in your Joomla database. Your tables stay the size they are now and your server
spends no queries on tracking.

You paste your code into one field. The plugin puts it on every page of your site.

Google Analytics gives you data. StatJolt gives you answers.

Setting up GA4 is a project. You create a property, wire up a data stream, learn what an
engagement event is, then add a cookie banner because you now need consent. Weeks later you are
still hunting for the number you wanted on day one.

StatJolt skips all of it. One snippet, real numbers, no sampling and no waiting for reports to
process.

Why not a stats extension that fills up your Joomla database?

Self hosted analytics extensions write a row to your Joomla database on every single page view.
On a quiet site you will never notice. On a busy one those tables grow into the millions, your
queries slow down, your backups swell and your host starts asking questions.

StatJolt keeps none of it in Joomla. The only thing it ever writes is your own settings, once,
when you press Save.

You still own your numbers and your visitors still stay anonymous. The work simply happens
somewhere built for it.

Set up in one paste

• One field. Paste the whole snippet, or only the script line, or only the number. All three work.
• Placed for you. The code goes before the closing body tag on every front end page. There is nothing to configure and no template to edit.
• Works with any template. The plugin writes into the finished page, so it does not care how your template is built or which positions it has.
• Cache aware. The code is identical for every visitor, so nothing needs excluding from your cache. The plugin clears the Joomla cache when you save.
• Honest status. The settings screen tells you whether StatJolt is genuinely receiving data from this site, not merely that a code is saved.
• Safe to paste twice. StatJolt runs once per page, so you cannot accidentally double count.

What you see

• Unique visitors and pageviews, as a trend rather than noise
• Where traffic comes from: search, social, direct and UTM campaigns
• Which pages people actually read
• Devices, browsers and countries
• Live visitors, right now, with no report processing delay

The dashboard is built to be read, not studied. Open it and understand your site in under a
minute.

More than pageviews

Most analytics tools keep their best features for the priciest tier or expect you to bolt on a
second product. StatJolt includes them from the start.

Core Web Vitals. LCP, INP, CLS, FCP and TTFB are tracked beside your traffic, automatically.
These are the numbers Google uses to rank you. StatJolt does not only tell you who visited, it
tells you whether your site was quick enough to keep them.

User journeys. See the real paths through your site, such as Home to Pricing to Signup, as a
flow you can read at a glance.

Funnels, found automatically. Want to know where people give up before checkout or signup?
Funnel analysis is locked behind expensive plans almost everywhere else. Here it is included and
it recognises many platforms on its own.

JavaScript errors. Broken scripts cost you conversions silently. StatJolt reports the errors
your visitors hit, so you find out before your customers tell you.

Privacy by design, not by policy

• No cookies. StatJolt does not need them, so it does not use them.
• No consent banner required in most countries.
• No personal data collected. You get the insight, your visitors keep their privacy.
• Raw IP addresses are never written to disk. The visitor identifier is a daily hash and the salt changes every midnight.
• Servers are inside the European Union.
• Nothing to configure to stay compliant.

Who it is for

• Bloggers and publishers who want to know which articles landed, without a course in analytics.
• Small business owners who need answers this afternoon, not a certification.
• Agencies and freelancers running many sites. One StatJolt account covers all of them and the same snippet works on every one.
• Anyone tired of cookie banners who would rather not ask every visitor for consent to count them.

How StatJolt compares

Google Analytics and GA4. Powerful and built for advertisers rather than site owners. It
samples your data, thresholds your reports and needs a consent banner in most of Europe. StatJolt
shows real numbers with none of the setup.

Matomo. Feature rich, self hostable and a genuinely good tool. It is also a server you have
to run, update and back up. StatJolt is the simpler option when you do not want to operate an
analytics server.

Self hosted Joomla stats extensions. Keeping your data on your own server is genuinely
appealing and it is also the trade off. Every page view becomes a database write on the same
database that serves your site. StatJolt takes that load off entirely and adds Core Web Vitals,
journeys and funnels without a paid tier.

What it costs

The plugin is free and GPL licensed. The StatJolt service costs nothing for low traffic sites. In
exchange it shows a small badge on your site.

About the badge

StatJolt displays a small badge on your site. You control it from your StatJolt account. Move it
to another corner or restyle it to suit your design. The badge cannot be switched off, so plan a
spot for it before you install.

If your badge floats, it pins itself to a corner and the plugin asks you nothing. If your account
is set to an in line badge, put the {statjolt_badge} token wherever you want it in an article or
a custom module. Pages without the token still get the tracking code, so nothing goes unmeasured.

Who is not counted

Logged in users are skipped, which you can turn off with a single switch. The administrator area,
feeds, JSON and raw responses, and Joomla's component only views are never touched.

External services

This plugin connects to StatJolt at https://statjolt.com, the analytics service it is built for.
Two separate connections happen.

Visitor tracking. On every front end page view the visitor's browser loads
https://statjolt.com/measure/c.min.js and that script sends the page view to
https://statjolt.com/measure/counter.php. What is sent: your StatJolt ID, the page path, the page
title, the referrer, screen width, browser language, UTM campaign parameters, Core Web Vitals
timings and uncaught JavaScript errors. No cookies are set.

Setup check. When you open the plugin's settings screen, your server calls
https://statjolt.com/pluginstatus.php with your StatJolt ID and your site's domain name. StatJolt
answers whether the ID exists, whether data is arriving and how your badge is configured. This
happens in the administrator area only, at most once every five minutes.

Terms of service: https://statjolt.com/en/page/tos
Privacy policy: https://statjolt.com/en/page/privacy