# Exporting stats

Download a site’s stats over any date range as a zip of daily CSV files, laid out as Plausible’s export is.

Plausible imports the files, and so do Pirsch, Tinylytics and other tools that read Plausible’s. Only the people a site is shared with can export it, even when its stats are public.

## Exporting a site

In the site’s settings, open **Export**, choose a range, all time unless you choose another, or two dates, and choose **Download**. The zip holds every day of them, in the site’s time zone, and is named for the site and the day you export it, such as `example_com_20261019.zip`. It’s always the whole site, never filtered.

A range that holds too much to export at once asks you to choose a shorter one. Each account can export five times a minute.

## What is in it

Eleven CSV files, each with a row for every day and value counted, and none for a day with nothing. Each file’s name ends with the range, such as `imported_pages_20260901_20260930.csv`.

| File | A row for |
| --- | --- |
| `imported_visitors` | Each day’s visitors, pageviews, visits, bounces and seconds on screen |
| `imported_sources` | A source, with its referrer and campaign tags |
| `imported_pages` | A page, with its scroll depth and time on screen |
| `imported_entry_pages` | The page a visit began on |
| `imported_exit_pages` | The page a visit ended on |
| `imported_locations` | A country |
| `imported_devices` | A device |
| `imported_browsers` | A browser |
| `imported_operating_systems` | An operating system |
| `imported_custom_events` | An event goal, outbound links, file downloads or pages not found |
| `imported_custom_props` | A custom property’s value, or a goal’s event data |

## How the figures are written

- **Visitors are visitor-days**, each counted once a day. Added up over several days, someone who came on three of them counts three times.
- **Sources, pages entered and left, countries, devices, browsers and systems** count visits once they [end](https://fiveb.ar/docs/metrics.md#visits), 30 minutes after the last thing they did, so today has only the visits that have ended. The day’s bounces and time on screen are counted the same way.
- **A page’s visits and visitors** are those that began on it, as on the dashboard, and at least 1 each, as someone saw it.
- **Every row has at least 1 visitor**, as someone was counted on it and Plausible hides a row with none. A goal’s visitors are the visits that reached it; links, downloads and pages not found have 1 each, as fivebar counts only their clicks and page loads.
- **Direct traffic** has an empty source, which Plausible shows as Direct / None.
- **Paths** are written as the dashboard shows them.
- **What fivebar doesn’t keep is empty**: regions, and browser and system versions. So is `utm_source`, which fivebar counts as the source.
- **Cities are 0**, as Plausible keeps a city as a GeoNames number and fivebar keeps its name. Visits from Tor, and from places fivebar couldn’t tell, are left out of `imported_locations`.
- **Hidden goals are left out**, as on the dashboard. Show a goal again to export it.

## Importing elsewhere

In Plausible, open the site’s settings, then **Imports & Exports**, choose **Import from CSV**, and add the files from the zip. Plausible imports a range of 3 days or more, only up to the day it began counting the site, and leaves out `imported_custom_props`. It takes at most five imports a site, so a history exported in shorter ranges must fit in five. Pirsch takes the zip as it is.

An app [connected over MCP](https://fiveb.ar/docs/mcp.md#what-an-app-can-read) reads the same figures, but can’t export them.

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