FlareStats brings your CloudFlare web analytics data directly into the WordPress admin. No third-party tracking services, no cookies — just privacy-preserving analytics from Cloudflare.

Features

Dashboard Widget — A compact summary widget on the WordPress Dashboard.
Full Analytics Screen — Dedicated admin page with a 7-day daily chart, top 5 pages, and top 3 countries.
Last 7 Days — Data always covers the rolling last 7 days.
Cloudflare GraphQL API — Connects to the Cloudflare GraphQL Analytics API using your API Token.
Lightweight & Dependency-Free — No external JavaScript frameworks; charts are CSS-based.
Caching — API responses cached via WordPress transients to minimise API calls.

Requirements

A Cloudflare account with Web Analytics enabled for your site.
A Cloudflare API Token with Account Analytics: Read permission.
Your Cloudflare Account ID.
Your FlareStats Site Tag (optional but recommended for multi-site accounts).

Configuration

In your Cloudflare dashboard go to My Profile API Tokens and create a token with Account Analytics: Read permission scoped to your account.
Note your Account ID (visible in the Cloudflare dashboard right-hand sidebar).
Go to Analytics & Logs Web Analytics, select your site, and copy the Site Tag from the site settings (optional).
In WordPress go to FlareStats Settings and enter your credentials.

Privacy / Tracking Disclosure

FlareStats displays analytics data inside WordPress by requesting reports from Cloudflare Web Analytics.

What this plugin sends to external services

This plugin sends authenticated requests from your WordPress site to the Cloudflare GraphQL API (api.cloudflare.com) using your configured API token, account ID, and site tag (if provided).
Request parameters include reporting date ranges and query fields needed to fetch analytics metrics.

What this plugin receives

Aggregated analytics data such as pageviews, visits, top pages, top countries, browser/device, and referrer/source metrics.
This plugin displays those metrics in the WordPress admin dashboard and analytics screens.

What this plugin stores in WordPress

Plugin settings in wp_options (for example API token, account ID, site tag, cache duration).
Cached analytics responses in WordPress transients to reduce API calls.

Personal data handling

This plugin does not create its own visitor tracking cookies.
Visitor analytics collection is performed by Cloudflare Web Analytics on your site.
This plugin does not add separate per-visitor profile records in WordPress for analytics.

Data retention / access

Cached analytics data is temporary and expires according to the configured cache duration.
Plugin settings and analytics screens are only accessible to users with appropriate admin capabilities (for example manage_options).

Third-party policies

Cloudflare Privacy Policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
Cloudflare Terms: https://www.cloudflare.com/website-terms/

Site owners are responsible for ensuring their site’s public privacy policy accurately describes how Cloudflare Web Analytics is used.