Track your Current Visitors on your blog
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The other day I started searching for a wordpress plug-in that can track your online visitors and give reports. I search Google and came across a plug-in that does exactly what I was looking for. It has a corny name but it is a great program. Its called
Probably after that lovely campaign that Budweiser ran a few years back. Basically this program is a snap to setup and don’t require any editing so its basically idiot proof!.
Features
The first and probably best feature of this plug-in is Spy. It tells you everything that you need to know about the current logged in Visitor. Such as the IP address, spider, the operating system, time they logged on and more. It also creates reports to organise visitors and information about your visitors with stats such as those that I listed below.
- ip / hostname
- referer
- spider
- search engines used (includes Google Images)
- keywords
- SERP (search engine result page)
- operating system / language / browser
- pages viewed (chronologically and per user session)
- complete user agent
- name of user logged in
- name of comment’s author-top ten charts with aggregate data (top queries, requests, os, browsers)
All of these features can be accessed VIA the dashboard in your admin menu.
There are also customisable options included which are
- Refreshing minutes
- Users levels required
- Enable/Disable recording
- Record or not users logged in
- Record or not spiders and bots
- Record or not exploit attempts (libwww-perl user agent)
- IPs to exclude from recording
- Alert admin for table growth
- Empty/Reset the database table
- Export current table in SQL format
- Automatically deletes records older then selected period (day, week, months, year)
- Manually deletes records older then selected period (day, week, months, year)
Finally to put the icing on the cake one more sweet option is that there is a widget involved. You can add a widget to your sidebar which will show your visitors in real-time how many people are on your blog. The widget is in AJAX of course.
The latest version 1.3.5 had just come out this week. This plug-in can be snatched by visiting the download site here
