TSW lets your users know how much traffic you have on your blog. It counts pages visited, hits and unique IPs on your blog and shows it in a widget. I
| Author: | Helen (profile at wordpress.org) |
| WordPress version required: | 2.8.0 |
| WordPress version tested: | 4.0.1 |
| Plugin version: | 1.0.2 |
| Added to WordPress repository: | 12-02-2013 |
| Last updated: | 27-02-2015
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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| Rating, %: | 88 |
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| Total downloads: | 49 378 |
| Active installs: | 1 000+ |
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TSW shows the number of visitors / hits / unique IPs in the past 24 hours, 7 days and 30 days. It also shows the number of users currently online.
It provides a robots filter, but the automatic traffic could also be considered.
Traffic Stats Widget offers language support and automatic log deletion.
Screenshots
On the blog the widget looks like this
Admin Page
Installation Instructions
- Upload the zip to ‘plugins’ directory
- Unzip (steps 1 and 2 cand also be performed automatically)
- Activate the plugin
- Configure and place the widget on your sidebar
If you need your traffic stats to be more accurate, you should use the Automatic Traffic Filter on the Widget. However, the internet is full of spiders, crawlers and all kind of robots not authenticating themselves as machines. Furthermore, it is very difficult to verify the signature of each and every robot visiting your blog… But there is a pretty good solution to this. I cannot access the root directory of your blog through WordPress install API, so you will have to do the following things by yourself:
- Create a robots.php file on the root directory of your blog: ie public_html/your-blog/
Paste the following code without // in it:
#
#
- Open .htaccess file in the same directory and paste this in it:
RewriteRule robots.txt robots.php
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Make sure you have the ‘RewriteEngine On’ clause in place…
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Make sure you have a robots.txt file, even an empty one, on the root directory
Done! Most of the robots will be filtered out by TSW.
Traffic Stats Widget does not have a settings section on Admin page. However, you can set the fields descriptions on the widget
ChangeLog
- 1.0
Initial Release
- 1.0.1
minor bug fixed
