François Hodierne

Access Watch

End of life
The Access Watch plugin for WordPress is not supported anymore and the plugin is unactive.
The Access Watch plugin is a traffic analysis and security service. Our technology processes visitor activity on your WordPress website and delivers insights to improve site security and performance.
Using innovative pattern matching and signature identification, our real-time analysis clearly breaks down your traffic between human and robots, immediately identifying threats and enabling you to block them from abusing your website. All in a beautiful and easy-to-use dashboard!
Access Watch is highly efficient in detecting and mitigating numerous website threats, including:
<ul>
<li>brute force attacks</li>
<li>comment spam & trackback spam</li>
<li>contact form spam</li>
<li>suspicious registrations</li>
<li>suspicious xml-rpc requests (spam, attacks)</li>
<li>referer spam (also known as referral/referrer spam)</li>
</ul>

Access Watch: Security and Traffic Insights

Simple and Awesome

Understand precisely the robot traffic on your website and take actions to improve performance and security.

Mostafa Soufi

VeronaLabs

Parhum Khoshbakht

toxicum

Jason Crouse

Track returning customers and registered users, monitor Javascript events, detect intrusions, analyze email campaigns. Thousands of WordPress sites are already using it.
<h4>Main Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Real-Time Access Log: measure server latency, track page events, keep an eye on your bounce rate and much more.</li>
<li>Admin Bar Stats: view real-time site stats directly from the WordPress admin bar — online visitors, pageviews, and top pages at a glance.</li>
<li>Shortcodes: display reports in widgets or directly in posts and pages.</li>
<li>Customize Reports: Customize all pages—Real-time, Overview, Audience, Site Analysis, and Traffic Sources—to fit your needs easily!</li>
<li>GDPR: fully compliant with GDPR European law. Integrates seamlessly with WP Consent API. Consent banner translatable with WPML and Polylang.</li>
<li>Filters: exclude users from statistics collection based on various criteria, including user roles, common robots, IP subnets, admin pages, country, etc.</li>
<li>Export to Excel: download your reports as CSV files, generate user heatmaps or get daily emails right in your mailbox (via Pro).</li>
<li>Cache: compatible with W3 Total Cache, WP SuperCache, CloudFlare and most caching plugins.</li>
<li>Privacy: hash IP addresses to protect your users’ privacy.</li>
<li>Geolocation: identify your visitors by city and country, browser type and operating system (courtesy of <a href="https://www.maxmind.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">MaxMind</a> and <a href="https://browscap.org" rel="nofollow ugc">Browscap</a>).</li>
<li>World Map: see where your visitors are coming from, even on your mobile device (courtesy of <a href="https://github.com/10bestdesign/jqvmap" rel="nofollow ugc">JQVMap</a>).</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Pack Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Network Analytics: Enable a network-wide view of your reports and settings.</li>
<li>Email Reports: Receive your reports directly in your mailbox with customizable column mappings and HTML tables.</li>
<li>Export to Excel: Download your reports as CSV files.</li>
<li>Heatmap: Display a heatmap layer of the most clicked areas on your website.</li>
<li>User Overview: Monitor your registered users by tracking their activities and time on site.</li>
<li>User Avatars: Gravatar integration in the User Overview report for quick visitor identification.</li>
<li>MaxMind Integration: Connect to MaxMind’s Geolocation API to retrieve detailed information about your visitors.</li>
<li>Custom DB: Use an external database to store all the information about your visitors.</li>
<li>Extended Overview: Add custom columns to the User Overview widget and export file.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>WordPress 5.6+</li>
<li>PHP 7.4+</li>
<li>MySQL 5.0.3+</li>
<li>At least 5 MB of free web space (240 MB if you plan on using the external libraries for geolocation and browser detection)</li>
<li>At least 10 MB of free DB space</li>
<li>At least 32 Mb of free PHP memory for the tracker (peak memory usage)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Please note</h3>
<ul>
<li>If you decide to uninstall Slimstat Analytics, all the stats will be PERMANENTLY deleted from your database. Make sure to setup a database backup (wp_slim_*) to avoid losing your data.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Report Bugs</h4>
Having trouble with a bug? Please <a href="https://github.com/wp-slimstat/wp-slimstat/issues/new" rel="nofollow ugc">create an issue</a> on GitHub. Kindly note that <a href="https://github.com/wp-slimstat/wp-slimstat" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> is exclusively for bug reports; other inquiries will be closed.
For security vulnerabilities, please report them through the <a href="https://patchstack.com/database/wordpress/plugin/wp-slimstat/vdp" rel="nofollow ugc">Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program</a>. The Patchstack team will validate, triage, and handle any security issues.

SlimStat Analytics


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Goodbye, Slimstat

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Access Watch: Security and Traffic Insights vs SlimStat Analytics