Opti-Behavior is the ultimate WordPress analytics plugin that reveals exactly how visitors interact with your website. Understand user behavior through powerful visual heatmaps, detailed click tracking, and comprehensive analytics - all stored securely on your own server.
Unlike external analytics services, Opti-Behavior keeps all your data local, ensuring complete privacy compliance and lightning-fast performance. Perfect for marketers, designers, and business owners who want to optimize their websites based on real user behavior data.
Why Choose Opti-Behavior?
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100% Privacy-Friendly - All data stays on your WordPress server (GDPR compliant)
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No External Dependencies - No API calls to third-party services for analytics
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Beautiful Visualizations - Easy-to-understand heatmaps and dashboards
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Mobile & Desktop Separation - Analyze each platform independently
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High Performance - Optimized for sites with millions of pageviews
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Bot Filtering - Automatic detection and exclusion of bot traffic
Core Features (Free Version)
- Click Heatmaps - Visualize where users click on your pages with color-coded heatmaps
- Mobile & Desktop Views - Separate tracking and visualization for different devices
- Real-time Dashboard - Monitor active visitors and their behavior live
- Page Analytics - Track pageviews, average time on page, and engagement metrics
- Session Tracking - Follow user journeys across your website
- Bot Detection - Server-side detection of search engines and bot traffic
- Performance Optimized - File-based storage option for high-traffic sites
- Privacy Controls - IP anonymization, data retention settings, and GDPR compliance tools
- Beautiful UI - Modern, intuitive interface with dark mode support
- Export Data - Download your analytics in CSV format
Pro Features (Upgrade)
- Session Recordings - Watch real user sessions to see exactly how visitors use your site
- Advanced Heatmaps - Attention heatmaps, scroll maps, and breakaway analysis
- Unlimited Pages - Track as many pages as you need
- Extended Retention - Keep data for infinity
- Priority Support - Get help when you need it
Learn more about Opti-Behavior Pro
Perfect For
- E-commerce Stores - Optimize checkout flows and product pages to increase sales
- Content Publishers - Understand which content keeps readers engaged
- Web Agencies - Provide clients with detailed user behavior reports
- SaaS Companies - Improve onboarding and reduce churn with behavior insights
- Marketing Teams - Test landing pages and measure campaign effectiveness
- UX Designers - Validate design decisions with real user data
- Small Businesses - Make informed decisions without expensive analytics tools
How It Works
- Install & Activate - Simple one-click installation, no configuration needed
- Automatic Tracking - Starts collecting data immediately after activation
- View Insights - Access beautiful dashboards from your WordPress admin
- Optimize - Use data-driven insights to improve your website
- Export & Share - Download reports or share insights with your team
Privacy & Data Protection
Privacy is built into Opti-Behavior from the ground up:
- GDPR Compliant - Full compliance with EU privacy regulations
- Local Data Storage - All analytics data stays in your WordPress database
- IP Anonymization - Option to anonymize visitor IP addresses
- Data Retention Control - Set automatic cleanup periods for old data
- No Third-Party Tracking - Analytics JavaScript is served from your domain
- Consent Management - Easy integration with consent management plugins
- Data Export - Users can request their data in portable format
- Complete Deletion - Option to delete all data on plugin uninstall
- No Cookies Required - Works without setting cookies (session-based tracking)
- Transparent - Open-source code you can audit yourself
Technical Features
Built with performance and security in mind:
- WordPress Coding Standards - Fully compliant with WP best practices
- Secure by Design - All database queries use prepared statements
- Optimized Performance - Handles millions of events without slowing down
- Flexible Storage - Choose between database or file-based storage
- Smart Indexing - Automatic database optimization for fast queries
- Bot Detection - Server-side filtering of crawlers and bots
- Multisite Ready - Works perfectly on WordPress multisite networks
- REST API Ready - Modern architecture with hooks and filters
- Developer Friendly - Extensive documentation and clean codebase
- Minimal Footprint - Lightweight JavaScript (~10KB minified)
- Async Loading - Non-blocking script loading for better page speed
- Batch Processing - Efficient handling of high-traffic scenarios
Automatic Installation
- Log in to your WordPress admin panel
- Navigate to Plugins > Add New
- Search for "Opti-Behavior"
- Click "Install Now" and then "Activate"
Manual Installation
- Download the plugin zip file
- Log in to your WordPress admin panel
- Navigate to Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin
- Choose the downloaded zip file and click "Install Now"
- After installation, click "Activate Plugin"
After Activation
- Navigate to Opti-Behavior in your WordPress admin menu
- The plugin starts tracking automatically - no configuration required!
- Visit the Dashboard to see real-time visitor activity
- Go to Heatmaps to view click patterns on your pages
- Adjust Settings to customize tracking behavior and privacy options
That's it! Opti-Behavior works out of the box with smart defaults.
1.0.8 - 2025-12-08
- Feature: User Intent Rules - Advanced system for analyzing and categorizing user behavior patterns
- Enhancement: Analytics Dashboard time filter now defaults to 30 Days for better data overview
- Fix: Improved favicon handling for referrer websites with proper fallback support
1.0.7 - 2025-12-02
- Enhancement: Added French language translations for improved internationalization
- Fix: Resolved sendPageView function issues for accurate page tracking
- Fix: Corrected Returning Visitors calculation and display
- Fix: Fixed Logged In Visitors detection and counting
- Feature: Display username for logged-in visitors in Top Engaged Users widget
- Enhancement: Extended device type support for all device categories (desktop, mobile, tablet, PC)
- Code Quality: WordPress coding standards compliance improvements
- Code Quality: Added debug logging controls via settings page
- Security: Fixed nonce verification warnings
- Security: Enhanced prepared SQL statements with proper phpcs annotations
1.0.6 - 2025-11-30
- Feature: New vs Returning Visitors analytics dashboard widget
- Feature: Visited Directories analytics with depth tracking and page views
- Feature: Visitor Authentication analytics showing logged-in vs guest users
- Fix: WordPress DB coding standards - SQL wildcards now use placeholders
- Enhancement: Improved prepared SQL statements compliance
- Code Quality: Full WordPress.DB.PreparedSQLPlaceholders compliance
1.0.5 - 2025-11-23
- Fix: Removed all debug error_log() calls from production code
- Fix: Replaced date() with gmdate() for timezone-safe date handling
- Fix: Added translator comments for i18n compliance
- Fix: Updated API URL from localhost to production endpoint
- Fix: Corrected stable tag version mismatch
- Enhancement: Improved readme with better descriptions and FAQ
- Enhancement: Added Plugin URI and updated Author URI
- Enhancement: Optimized WordPress.org directory submission compliance
- Compatibility: Full WordPress 6.8 compatibility verified
- Enhancement: Added COALESCE for better handling of NULL titles in Top Pages
- Enhancement: Improved country detection with browser language fallback when IP geolocation fails
- Enhancement: Top Pages widget now displays page views instead of clicks for better accuracy
1.0.4 - 2025-11-20
- Enhancement: Added file-based storage system for high-traffic sites
- Enhancement: Implemented automatic bot detection and filtering
- Enhancement: Added performance optimizer with automatic database indexing
- Enhancement: Separate mobile and desktop heatmap tracking and visualization
- Enhancement: Batch processing for improved performance
- Enhancement: Enhanced debug logging system with WordPress-compliant manager
- Enhancement: Added Lucide icon library (v0.554.0, ISC License) for modern UI
- Security: Replaced direct filesystem operations with WP_Filesystem API
- Security: Replaced unlink() with wp_delete_file() for file deletion
- Code Quality: WordPress coding standards compliance improvements
- Code Quality: Improved data sanitization and validation
- Compatibility: Tested up to WordPress 6.8
1.0.3
- Security: Fix Unsafe SQL calls
- Security: Fix files and directories locations use
- Security: Moved inline CSS to external stylesheet
- Security: Moved inline JS to external stylesheet
- Follows WordPress coding standards
- Plugin Check validation passed
1.0.2
Review and fix all the issues listed in the review email.
1.0.1
- Security: Enhanced sanitization for $_SERVER variables
- Security: Improved json_decode() data sanitization
- Security: Moved inline CSS to external stylesheet for WordPress compliance
- Code Quality: Added proper sanitization for all user inputs
- Code Quality: Enhanced data validation in AJAX handlers
- Compatibility: Verified all security checks are in place
1.0.0
- Initial release
- Visual heatmap tracking
- Session recording functionality
- Real-time analytics dashboard
- Page performance metrics
- User journey tracking
- GDPR compliance features
- Data export functionality
- Multisite support
- Debug mode for troubleshooting