Traffic Monitor

Traffic Monitor gives you full visibility into how people and bots are hitting your site. Unlike bloated analytics and security plugins, Traffic Monitor focuses on logging raw request data that you control. You’ll know which pages are cached, which bots are visiting, where users are coming from, and how many requests are tied to each IP/browser combination. Perfect for developers, marketers, and site owners who want fast insights—without handing over their traffic data.

Automatic installation

1. Log into your WordPress admin
2. Go to Plugins > Add New
3. Search for Traffic Monitor
4. Click Install Now and then Activate

Manual installation

1. Download the plugin
2. Unzip the contents
3. Upload to wp-content/plugins/
4. Activate from your WordPress dashboard

3.1.0 (2025-05-07)

• Replaced external call to ipfiy with internal API
• Added bots to detection list

3.0.0 (2025-03-18)

• Normalized database into multiple tables with added fields
• Added bot detection with category tracking
• Added advertising click tracking (example: gclid, fbclid)
• Added fingerprint hash and session hash for tracking repeat visitors
• Added filters to log table
• Added ability to combine filtering, searching, and sorting to drill into data

2.3.0 (2025-02-21)

• Removed user agent parsing dependancy

2.2.1 (2025-02-19)

• Minor layout updates.

2.2.0 (2025-02-19)

• Added field for whether page requested was cached.

2.1.1 (2025-02-15)

• Improved comments and code organization.

2.1.0 (2025-02-14)

• Improved branding, cache busting, and updating.

2.0.0 (2025-02-12)

• Added logging of cached pages.

1.4.0 (2025-02-11)

• Added Request Type field.
• Refactored code from proceedural to OOP with MVC design.

1.3.2 (2025-02-05)

• Fixed version error.

1.3.1 (2025-02-05)

• Fixed version error.

1.3.0 (2025-02-05)

• Removed cache detection.

1.2.0 (2025-01-29)

• Added sorting for each column and increased number of search fields.
• Removed forwarded, x_real_ip, x_forwarded_for, and x_forwarded_host fields
• Improved help file and code comments

1.1.3 (2025-01-28)

• Fixed bugs and improved help.

1.1.2 (2025-01-28)

• Security enhancements.

1.1.1 (2025-01-28)

• Fixed bugs.

1.1.0 (2025-01-27)

• Added cache detection and bug fixes.

1.0.4 (2025-01-22)

• Improved readme.txt and fixed bugs.

1.0.3 (2025-01-22)

• Fixed bugs.

1.0.2 (2025-01-21)

• Security enhancements.

1.0.1 (2025-01-20)

• Security enhancements.

1.0.0 (2025-01-16)

• Initial release.