The best analytics plugin I ever seen: Geotrack Plugin (2.0.2)
Google Maps, PHP, Web, Web analytics, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugin July 23rd, 2007
Today I found a great wordpress plugin today:
Features:
- logs every visit on your wordpress blog in your MySQL database
- automatic cleanup of logs in your MySQL database
- contains the same information as Apache combined server logs with ip, referrer, method, status, uri, user agent and access time
- additionally stores geo-ip information with country, ISO country code, city name, latitude and longitude
- displays a list of current visitors
- displays a top-10-list of referrers, visited pages, visitors‘ countries and visitors‘ cities
- has functionality to prevent referrer spamming
- ip blocking of known referrer spammers
- contains a set of free (GNU-GPL / Creative Commons) country flags from Wikipedia
- Google maps integration: shows your visitors‘ locations on world map
- fast geoip retrieval through local database
- contains installer and update scripts
- uses MaxMind GeoLite City
- see it in action here
- and of course it’s free to use!
Very cool, very useful and with google maps displaying who si from where…
See it live in my site:
http://dev.robertmao.com/visitors-map/
Popularity: 24% [?]
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I have to say, that I could not agree with you in 100% regarding t analytics plugin I ever seen: Geotrack Plugin (2.0.2) | Inmates Are Running Asylum, but it’s just my opinion, which could be wrong
If you know how IP network and http works, you know the geo-ip stuff is close to crap. The mapping is based on the registration address of your ISP, not where your visitors are. Plus, http is stateless, most of the stuff your web analytics software tells you are conjectures, not facts. So don’t get too excited by those fancy maps and graphs.