GreenOrb Statistics VS DevDome

GreenOrb Statistics's answer

PHP and MySQL, built on the standard WordPress plugin APIs, with a JavaScript tracker in the browser and Chart.js for the charts. In Pro, Ask AI works with Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini using your own API key, and the plugin registers its reports with the WordPress Abilities API so AI tools can query them over MCP.

DevDome's answer:

WordPress plugins in PHP (GPL, on WordPress.org, exposing the WordPress Abilities API for AI agents), a hosted analytics service on Cloudflare Workers with a public REST Stats API and an MCP server, and a web dashboard.

GreenOrb Statistics's answer

I've been building WordPress sites through Green Orb Web Design since 2008, and I run a few sites of my own. Every statistics plugin I tried left me with the same doubt: how much of this traffic is real? Bots were counted alongside people, and a jump in visitors could mean new readers or just a crawler that had found the site. I wanted a plugin that could tell the two apart, so I built one. GreenOrb Statistics filters out the bots it can identify, flags the visitors that behave like bots, and shows you exactly what it removed.

DevDome's answer:

DevDome started from running our own WordPress sites: Google Analytics numbers were half bots, every privacy tool cost a subscription per site, and keeping sites healthy meant five different plugins from five vendors. So we built one account that counts real humans, shows the bots separately, watches site health, and ships the maintenance plugins for free on WordPress.org, each built as the free alternative to the paid incumbent in its category.

GreenOrb Statistics's answer

Most analytics plugins give you a traffic total and leave it there. GreenOrb Statistics shows you how that total was made. Known bots are filtered out before anything is counted, visitors that look automated are flagged for you to review, and a filtered-traffic receipt lists what was taken out. Time on page only counts while the visitor is active, so a tab left open overnight doesn't turn into an eight-hour read. It also records SoundCloud and YouTube plays on your pages.

DevDome's answer:

DevDome shows real humans only. Bots and AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and 100+ more) are detected and shown as their own line instead of inflating your visits, and it is cookieless by default, so there is no consent banner. Site health (uptime, Lighthouse, security) sits next to the traffic under one account, a public Stats API and an MCP server let AI agents read the numbers, and six free WordPress.org plugins come with it.

GreenOrb Statistics's answer

Because the basics are free. Live visitors, UTM campaign tracking, click tracking, visitor journeys and email reports are all in the free version, where some other popular analytics plugins keep them for paying customers. Your visitor data stays in your own WordPress database. If you run a WooCommerce shop, Pro adds net sales after refunds, a checkout funnel with abandonment and conversion paths. Pro also includes Ask AI: type a question about your traffic in plain English and get an answer from your own stats, using your own Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini API key. Pro starts at $49 a year.

DevDome's answer:

• Plausible and Fathom charge a subscription for every site; DevDome has a free plan and no per-site consent hassle.
• Google Analytics needs cookies and a consent banner in the EU; DevDome is cookieless and GDPR-friendly out of the box.
• Matomo self-hosted needs your own server and database; DevDome stores nothing in your WordPress database and keeps the site fast.
• None of them split bots and AI crawlers from humans; DevDome does, and shows AI referral traffic too.
• The WordPress plugins (malware scanner, link monitor, redirects, media cleaner, affiliate links) are free alternatives to Wordfence, Broken Link Checker, Redirection, Media Cleaner Pro and AAWP.

GreenOrb Statistics's answer

People running WordPress sites who want to know what their traffic really is, without sending visitor data to an outside analytics service. The free version is aimed at bloggers, small businesses and music or media sites. Pro is aimed at WooCommerce shop owners and at agencies looking after client sites; the 5-site and 50-site licences let an agency put its own name and logo on the plugin.

DevDome's answer:

WordPress site owners, bloggers, small agencies and freelancers who run one or many WordPress sites and want honest visitor numbers without consent banners, plus the basic site hygiene (uptime, malware, broken links, redirects) in the same place. Any other website can use the analytics through one script tag.