CAOS | Host Google Analytics Locally
The fastest, lightest way to integrate Google Analytics in WordPress.
4.9(128 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 4 months agoAs of April 2026, CAOS is a WordPress GDPR plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 128 reviews. It has been downloaded 1.9M+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP 7.0+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Download volume is stable this week. Support resolution rate: 100%. Top alternative: CookieYes – Cookie Banner for Cookie….
4.9/5128 reviews
10K+active installs
100%resolved
10 yearssince 2016
Overview
CAOS can be downloaded for free without any paid subscription from the official WordPress repository.
CAOS (Complete Analytics Optimization Suite) for Google Analytics allows you to host gtag.js locally and keep it updated using WordPress’ built-in Cron-schedule. Fully automatic!
Not a big Google Analytics user and just curious about your pageviews? CAOS fully supports Minimal Analytics 4. An extremely lightweight alternative to Google Analytics’ default libraries (gtag.js). Minimal Analytics also helps you get rid of that annoying Unused JS notice in Google PageSpeed Insights!
Whenever you run an analysis of your website on Google Pagespeed Insights, Pingdom or GTMetrix, it’ll tell you to leverage browser cache when you’re using Google Analytics. Because Google ha…
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Recent Reviews
Great for having google analytics without detrimental google page speed scores
by katmacau·4 months ago·1 reply
Great plugin that I use for every site that has Google Analytics. Solves the speed issues on google page speed scores when you install GA the traditional way.
Superlative, full of many features, great support and works perfectly.
by Fabio Perri·2 years ago·1 reply
There is really little to add to the title of this review other than to congratulate the Developer Mr. Daan van den Bergh.
As mentioned in the title of this review, the CAOS | Host Google Analytics Locally for WordPress plugin is really well designed and coded, it also turns out to be very streamlined, lightweight and packed with lots of features and most importantly it works perfectly (mind you, do not confuse the errors that can be caused by an incompatibility with obsolete versions of PHP, because using the updated versions of PHP and supported by this plugin, although I have been using this plugin for a long time, I have not yet encountered any errors in this plugin).
Basically with CAOS | Host Google Analytics Locally, this simple but very powerful WordPress plugin allows you to host gtag.js locally and keep it up-to-date very easily using the built-in WordPress cron schedule and everything is fully automatic.
Is compatible with all Google Analytics plugins such as: MonsterInsights (Pro), ExactMetrics, Google Site Kit, Google Analytics for WooCommerce, WooCommerce Google Analytics Pro, Analytify and many more.
Is also compatible with all Cookie Notice type plugins such as: Complianz, CookieYes, WP Cookie Notice, Cookie Notice & Compliance, Cookie Notice & Consent Banner and many more.
Also you can preconnect to google-analytics.com to reduce latency and speed up requests, add tracking code in the footer header or do it manually and much, much more!
Oh I forgot… it is virtually completely free but there is also a paid Professional version available (optionally) that adds, for those who need it, support for:
– Use Google Analytics in compliance with GDPR with:
- Randomize Client ID (which grants a fresh, untraceable UUID/ClientID to each visitor);
- Stealth Mode (a unique, customized API, designed for WordPress, which anonymizes your visitor’s data before sending it to Google’s servers).
– Other features:
- Cloaked Affiliate Link Tracking;
- Cloudflare Compatibility Mode.
To finish I still give my compliments to the Developer Mr. Daan van den Bergh and I can only recommend you to try it because it is really an Excellent plugin for WordPress and I am very proud to have completely translated it into Italian!
Greetings and have a nice day.
- This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by Steven Stern (sterndata).
- This topic was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by Fabio Perri.
Perfect
by shredengineer·2 years ago·1 reply
Great product & great customer service!
Super plugin
by Theophilus Opoku Bannor·2 years ago
This plug-in solved my nightmare in pagespeed insight. I had little issues with it at first but the support was beyond superb.
Nice plugin
by CarlosPiresAdv·2 years ago
good job
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.0+ required |
Version Adoption
v5.0
71.7%
Other
11.7%
v4.7
8.8%
v4.8
7.8%
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Changelog
5.0.1
- Tested with WP 6.9.
- Fixed: syntax error in the Update Available message would break JS execution on the Plugins overview page.
- Fixed: on some instances an Uncaught TypeError would appear on every page in the admin screen.
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