Traffic Monitor
| Developer | dmitriamartin |
|---|---|
| Update Time | Oct. 22, 2025, 1:44 a.m. |
| WordPress Version: | 6.8 |
| Copyright: | GPLv2 or later |
| Copyright URL: | Copyright Information |
Description:
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.
Installation:
Automatic installation
- Log into your WordPress admin
- Go to Plugins > Add New
- Search for Traffic Monitor
- Click Install Now and then Activate
- Download the plugin
- Unzip the contents
- Upload to
wp-content/plugins/ - Activate from your WordPress dashboard
Screenshots:
FAQs:
Does this plugin track users across pages?
No. Traffic Monitor logs each request separately, so you’ll see every page load, but it doesn’t track full visitor journeys.
Where is the data stored?
In custom database tables within your WordPress site—nothing is sent to third parties.
Can I export the logs?
Yes, as CSV files. Export selected rows or the entire log.
How long are logs kept?
Until you delete them. Use the bulk delete option if you need to manage storage.
Will it slow down my site?
No. The plugin is optimized to skip static assets and unnecessary requests.
Changelog:
3.2.7 (2025-10-21)
- Guard session bootstrap to front-end only (no sessions on admin, REST, AJAX, cron, or WP-CLI) to resolve Site Health “Active PHP session” warning.
- Immediately release PHP session lock after hashing the session ID to prevent REST/loopback cURL 28 timeouts and late cron notices.
- Added source as a search field
- Removed prompt when hitting enter instead of Search button
- Fixed pagination when searching or filtering log
- Fixed issue where referrer was incorrect for cached pages
- Fixed issue where source was not inherited when session matches
- Added logging of original source of requests when known
- Included other fields in search feature
- Fixed PHP warning concerning session
- Fixed issue regarding matching bot names to user agents
- Fixed PHP warning concerning fingerprint
- Added detection of bots that switch sessions to avoid detection
- Fixed issue where response code was logged too early
- Fixed bug where AJAX cache detection could run scripts triggered by query strings
- Improved database schema resilience by ensuring
bots.namecolumn supports longer strings
- Fixed nonce check issue
- Added bots to detection list
- Replaced external call to ipfiy with internal API
- Added bots to detection list
- 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
- Removed user agent parsing dependency
- Minor layout updates.
- Added field for whether page requested was cached.
- Improved comments and code organization.
- Improved branding, cache busting, and updating.
- Added logging of cached pages.
- Added Request Type field.
- Refactored code from proceedural to OOP with MVC design.
- Fixed version error.
- Removed cache detection.
- 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
- Fixed bugs and improved help.
- Security enhancements.
- Fixed bugs.
- Added cache detection and bug fixes.
- Improved readme.txt and fixed bugs.
- Fixed bugs.
- Security enhancements.
- Security enhancements.
- Initial release.