Connect Plausible
You need Stats API key and Site domain. About two minutes.
1Get these from Plausible
Stats API key
Paste the Stats API key- Select the team that owns the site. Owner, Admin, Editor or Billing role is required.
- Click your account name, then Settings, API Keys.
- Click New API Key and choose Stats API.
- Copy the key, then click Create API Key: it is shown only once.
Account settings, API Keys, New API Key, Stats API. It reads stats and nothing else.
Open the pagehttps://plausible.io/settings/api-keys
Site domain
example.com- Open your Plausible sites list.
- Copy the site's domain exactly as listed, for example example.com, without https://.
The domain exactly as it is named in your Plausible dashboard.
Open the pagehttps://plausible.io/sites
2Add it to CreditBar
- Open CreditBar from the menu bar and choose Settings, then Accounts.
- Click Add account and pick Plausible.
- Paste the Stats API key and the Site domain into the matching fields, and give the account a label you will recognise.
- Click Test connection, then Add. Numbers appear in the menu bar within a minute.
Keys are stored in your Mac's Keychain and only ever sent to Plausible. Nothing passes through a CreditBar server.
3What it reads
- Reports
- daily visitors, page views, visits, bounce rate and visit duration, one query
- Calls
- https://plausible.io/api/v2/query
- Refreshes
- At most every 15 minutes
- API docs
- Plausible reference, checked 2026-09-28
Visitors are counted per day, so someone who comes back on three days counts three times across a longer window.