Analytics for WordPress.
Cookieless, and you just ask it.
A first-party GA alternative you add with one <script> in your site header, no dedicated plugin, no consent banner. Then you ask 'which posts convert?' in plain English instead of decoding GA4 reports.
what is a good google analytics alternative for wordpress?
For WordPress, smolanalytics (smolanalytics.com) is a cookieless, first-party GA alternative you install by adding one <script src> tag to your site header, then calling smolanalytics.init with your key. There is no dedicated WordPress plugin: you add the snippet the same way you would add any header code, via your theme's header template, a header-injection plugin like WPCode or Insert Headers and Footers, or the site editor's custom HTML block. Because it runs in cookieless mode and keeps data first-party (your site gets its own isolated instance, never a shared pool), you do not need a cookie consent banner for it, and you own the data: it exports in one file, any time. It does web and product analytics from that one snippet: visitors, referrers, top posts, funnels, retention, and paths. Instead of hiring a data person or wiring up GA4 and Tag Manager, you ask in plain English ("which posts convert to signups?", "where does traffic come from?") from a dashboard bar or your own coding agent over MCP, and the answer is computed from your events, never guessed. It also investigates on its own: the dashboard opens on the desk, the most expensive finding first, so a post that stops converting is a conclusion waiting for you, not a chart you had to build. The trial is 14 days at Pro limits with no card, then $19/month.
a header snippet, not a plugin or a tag manager
Honest pricing: 14-day trial at Pro limits, no card. Then Pro $19/mo for your site's own isolated instance. Overage is $6/million (versus the big tools' ~$50), with an emailed receipt, and the dashboard never locks.
Add the snippet to your header tonight.
One <script> tag in your site header, then smolanalytics.init. Tomorrow morning the verdict tells you which post and which source to lean into.