Danny van Kooten

@dvko.bsky.social

Premium WordPress plugins @ ibericode.com Currently: kokoanalytics.com, mc4wp.com Previously: Fathom Analytics, HTML Forms Also a dad, investor, pizza chef, rock climber, triathlete.

Just blogged: how Koko Analytics stays lightweight on busy WordPress sites. Summarising some of the behind the scenes changes in these last few months. A bit technical, but should be interesting nonetheless! www.kokoanalytics.com/2026/10/01/k...

How Koko Analytics stays lightweight on busy WordPress sites | Koko Analytics

See how fixed-size pageview batches reduce memory and crawler load during WordPress traffic spikes while your data stays on your server.

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T-3 weeks until my Olympic Triathlon. Laying low on social media while I'm spending my time training and working while recovering. Might be involved in some panic training, feeling pretty tired nearly all days now.😅

I don't have a point with this and I know it's probably controversial, but I would 100% prefer a world in which AI was never invented. (This does not mean I don't use it quite extensively - I do. But for economical reasons only.)

We just released version 4.12.2 of MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress. You can now start using Mailchimp's Site Tracking Pixel with a single click. Your site will automatically be created in Mailchimp (or re-used if already there) and your unique script will be loaded (using deferred loading).

New day, new Koko Analytics release. Version 2.3.5 just went out. 🎉 - the aggregation process no longer runs while database migrations are pending/busy - pruning data is now done in 10K chunks - the alloptions cache is no longer invalidated on every aggregation run wordpress.org/plugins/koko...

Koko Analytics – Privacy Friendly Statistics for WordPress

Easy, fast, privacy-friendly statistics. A simpler Google Analytics alternative built right into WordPress.

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After a couple of days of casually reviewing several block based themes, I've decided on Rockbase for a site I'm currently moving back on to WordPress. It's looking really slick, maxed out WCV score and has just the right amount of patterns.

How's everyone using AI to help manage their WordPress site? I currently have local AI chat with access to my local copy of the source files combined with a WP CLI config file to access content on production. It works, but seems brittle. Any better setups out there?

Todays small feature: the pageview treshold in Koko Analytics Pro's traffic spike notification can now be a relative number. This sends the traffic spike notification when traffic is +100% compared to the 3 month hourly average.

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In one of our applications I had Monolog configured to email on critical errors, except this time the critical error was related to sending emails. Took me 48 hours before I noticed. Oof. 😅 So... What's everyone using for log aggregation and monitoring these days?