WordPress analytics without MonsterInsights cookies

MonsterInsights and Site Kit pull Google Analytics. GA4 wants a cookie, then a banner, then a tag that blockers already killed. If you wanted pageviews on a WordPress site without that stack, you wanted a smaller script.

Upload the Cookie Free Analytics plugin from GitHub, or paste the snippet in the theme header or footer. There is no cookie for this script, so there is no banner for this script. If you still load Ads, Meta, or GA4, keep the banner for those tags.

First-party is a CNAME

Point c.yoursite.com at us (DNS only). That keeps visitor IP, city, and same-day uniques. A PHP path proxy would collapse those to the host. WordPress.com and WordPress.org can both paste the snippet.

Hobby shows a Cookie Free Analytics link on the site. Starter turns it off from €4 / month. Named goals still need a line of code, or whoever ships the theme. Pageviews, sources, and landing UTMs work from the paste alone.