What analytics does Benecaster provide?

The core plugin includes a subscriber count stat card, a 90-day growth sparkline, and a tier breakdown panel — active count, new subscribers, and churned per tier for the last 30 days — in the admin dashboard from day one.

The Analytics Dashboard add-on adds: subscriber growth over time (by tier, with date-range controls and prior-period comparison), tier movement tracking (upgrades, downgrades), episode download counts, downloads by episode and date range, podcast app breakdown, feed engagement per tier, cohort analysis, and CSV export of any panel.

With the download proxy enabled, episode download data includes per-subscriber attribution, podcast app identification, and exact last-access timestamps — so you can see not just how many times an episode was downloaded but who downloaded it, from which app, and when. Without the proxy, feed polling data is available but per-episode download counts and app breakdowns aren’t. See What is the download proxy and do I need it? →

Because Benecaster collects analytics data from the moment it’s installed — not from when you purchase the add-on — buying the Analytics Dashboard six months in gives you six months of charts immediately. There’s no retroactive gap.