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title: Overview
date: 2026-07-02T14:55:00+01:00
author: John Henry Donovan
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# Overview

**Clicky Analytics** brings your [Clicky](https://clicky.com/) web analytics into the Craft CMS 5 control panel. It adds a set of native dashboard widgets plus a per-entry page-stats field, all running off the [Clicky stats API](https://clicky.com/help/api).

## What it does

- Adds **21 dashboard widgets** you can mix and match on any Craft dashboard: from a headline Overview to Top Pages, Traffic Sources, Countries, Browsers, Goals, Campaigns and more.
- Adds a configurable **Report widget** that'll render any single metric as a Counter, Line, Bar or Pie chart.
- Adds a **Live Visitors widget** with a real-time feed of recent visits, complete with country flags, browser/OS logos, referrer and dwell time.
- Adds a **Clicky Analytics Page Stats field** that shows an individual entry's analytics inside the entry editor, worked out live from the entry's URL.
- Exposes the same data to your templates through a `<strong>craft.clickyAnalytics</strong>` Twig variable.
- Can inject the **Clicky tracking snippet** into your front end automatically, if you want it to; see [Tracking code](http://localhost:5174/clicky-analytics/guide/configuration.html#tracking-code).

## How it works under the hood

A single [`<u>Api</u>` service](http://localhost:5174/clicky-analytics/api/services.html) wraps the Clicky stats API. It packs one or more report "types" into each HTTP call, normalises Clicky's nested response into flat arrays, decorates rows with country flags and browser/OS/search-engine logos, and caches every response for however long you've set. The widgets, the page-stats field and the `craft.clickyAnalytics` Twig variable all read through that one service, so the dashboard, the entry editor and your front end always see the same numbers.

The plugin doesn't store **any analytics data of its own**. Everything's fetched live from Clicky (and cached briefly); there are no database tables and no migrations to worry about.

Clicky is a trademark of [Roxr Software Ltd](https://clicky.com). this is an unofficial, community  
plugin with nothing to do with them directly.

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