Who is behind SlimStat
SlimStat Analytics is built and maintained by VeronaLabs, the same team behind WP Statistics. Our registered address is Tornimäe 5, Tallinn, Estonia, and that address appears in the footer of every page on this site and in our privacy policy.
We work in public. The plugin is distributed through the WordPress.org plugin directory, its source lives on GitHub, and every release is logged in the public changelog. If you want to know what changed and when, you never have to ask us — you can read it.
A plugin with a long history
SlimStat has been listed on WordPress.org since 2010, which makes it one of the older analytics plugins still under active development. It was created and shepherded for years by Jason Crouse, and it is his work that made SlimStat what it is.
VeronaLabs acquired the plugin from him and announced the handover publicly in November 2023, in a post welcoming SlimStat to the VeronaLabs family. That announcement carried one commitment above all the others: we keep your data safe. Everything below is the practical expression of it.
What followed was maintenance work rather than a rebrand. By the time we published the v5.1 recap, we had shipped 18 updates since taking over: a cleaned-up and more readable interface, hardened plugin security across several releases, compatibility fixes, a move to more compliant libraries to stay inside WordPress.org standards, and the return of the much-requested add-ons, regrouped as the SlimStat Pro pack.
What we actually stand for
Most website analytics works by shipping your visitors’ behaviour to somebody else’s servers and renting the answers back to you. SlimStat does the opposite, and that single decision explains almost every other choice in the product.
When a page is generated by WordPress, a hook invokes the SlimStat tracker. The tracker reads the request, applies whatever filters and blacklists you have configured, and writes the result into the wp_slim_stats table — a table in your own WordPress database, on your own hosting. The reports you read in wp-admin are SQL queries against that table. There is no external analytics account in the middle, no data warehouse we control, and nothing for us to monetise on the side.
That is what self-hosted, first-party analytics means in practice:
Your database, your data. Visit records are stored on your server. If you uninstall the plugin or move hosts, the data goes with you.
No third-party pipeline. Nothing is sent to us in order to produce your reports.
Privacy controls in the box. SlimStat can be configured for GDPR and comparable regimes by anonymising IP addresses and offering visitors an opt-out.
You choose how tracking runs. Server Mode records the visit before the page is sent; Client Mode uses a JavaScript file after the page loads. Both are supported because neither is right for every site.
Free plugin, optional Pro
The core plugin is free and stays free. SlimStat Pro is a paid add-on for people who need more: heatmaps, goals and funnels, scheduled email reports, spreadsheet exports, a user overview report, network-wide analytics for Multisite, and the option to store tracking data in a separate external database. You can see all ten on the Pro features page, and the licence tiers on the pricing page.
Pro purchases carry a 14-day money-back guarantee, and licences renew annually for continued updates and support — auto-renewal can be switched off in your account at any time. Even with Pro active, the arrangement is unchanged: the data is still yours, still on your infrastructure, and the external database option exists precisely so you can decide where it lives.
Talking to us
Support runs by email, through your account, and the support page collects the documentation and FAQ first — most questions are answered there faster than we can reply. For anything else, email [email protected] or use the contact page. Bug reports and feature requests are welcome on GitHub, and we post product news on LinkedIn and on this site’s blog. If you would rather recommend SlimStat than buy it, there is an affiliate programme paying 30% on referred sales.
Directory figures above — installs, rating and review count — are taken from the WordPress.org plugin API and were last checked on 25 August 2026.