Tim Boulley

BT Visitor Insights is a privacy-friendly, self-hosted analytics plugin. Everything stays on your server — no Google Analytics, no third-party tracking scripts, no data sent to any external analytics platform.
Activate it and your dashboard starts filling with real visitor data: where they’re from, what pages they viewed, what device they’re on, and how long they’ve been around.
<h4>Why use it?</h4>
<ul>
<li>No third-party tracking. All visitor data stays in your WordPress database.</li>
<li>Zero configuration. Activate the plugin and data starts collecting immediately.</li>
<li>Lightweight. No bulky frontend tracking script — tracking happens server-side, so it works alongside any caching plugin.</li>
<li>Real-time. See who’s on your site right now (last 15 minutes).</li>
<li>Respectful. Honors the Do Not Track browser header and skips logged-in administrators.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Real-time active-visitor count</li>
<li>IP geolocation — city, region, country, country flag</li>
<li>Page view tracking with titles and referrers</li>
<li>Device detection — desktop, mobile, tablet</li>
<li>Browser and operating system breakdown</li>
<li>Top pages, top referrers, top countries</li>
<li>30-day visual bar chart</li>
<li>Per-visitor history — click any IP to see every page they viewed</li>
<li>Date-range filters — today, 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, all time</li>
<li>Auto-cleanup — old data is purged based on your configurable retention period (default 90 days)</li>
<li>IP exclusion list and IP anonymization (in Settings)</li>
<li>CSV export of visitors and page views</li>
<li>Dashboard widget on the WP admin home screen</li>
<li>Admin bar badge with live visitor count</li>
<li>Skips bots, crawlers, and logged-in admins</li>
<li>Respects the Do Not Track header</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro version</h4>
A <a href="https://boulleytechnology.ca/bt-visitor-insights.php" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro version</a> adds:
<ul>
<li>Email digests — daily or weekly HTML report with stats, top pages, and trend comparisons</li>
<li>Traffic-spike alerts — get an email when page views exceed your normal baseline</li>
<li>Geo-blocking — block or redirect visitors from specific countries</li>
<li>Scheduled CSV exports — weekly or monthly automated email exports</li>
<li>Goals & conversions — track URL-based goals and unique converters</li>
<li>REST API access — query stats, visitors, and page views via /wp-json/btvi/v1/</li>
<li>Multi-site rollup — aggregate stats from multiple WordPress sites in one dashboard</li>
<li>White-label dashboard — customize the menu label and page title for client sites</li>
<li>Unlimited data retention — keep visitor history forever</li>
</ul>
The Pro version is sold separately and is not required to use this free plugin.
<h3>External Services</h3>
This plugin uses the ip-api.com geolocation API to look up the city, region, and country for each new visitor IP address. This request is made server-side from your WordPress installation when a visitor is first seen.
<ul>
<li>Service: ip-api.com</li>
<li>What is sent: the visitor’s IP address</li>
<li>When: once per unique visitor IP, server-side</li>
<li>Privacy policy: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal</li>
<li>Terms of service: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal</li>
</ul>
No data is sent to Boulley Technology or any other third party.

BT Visitor Insights

Lightweight, self-hosted visitor analytics with IP geolocation, page views, device detection, and a real-time dashboard. No third-party scripts.

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Quantely Activity is a lightweight, first-party plugin for WordPress that records pageviews and events.
Quantely Activity is built to capture activity reliably under imperfect conditions through server-side recording and optional client-side signals, while supporting filtering for bots, unwanted pages, IP sources and selectable WordPress logged-in roles.
Quantely Activity can be used for:
<ul>
<li>Monitoring site behavior</li>
<li>Reviewing traffic patterns</li>
<li>Security and bot analysis</li>
<li>Feeding downstream analytics layers</li>
</ul>
Quantely Activity is turn-key: install it, and pageviews and events should begin appearing shortly after. Raw activity data is retained for a configurable short period, helping keep the plugin lightweight and privacy-conscious.
<h3>What Quantely Activity is</h3>
Quantely Activity is a capture and monitoring layer. It is designed to record activity on your site in a structured and reliable way, with a strong focus on signal capture and data integrity.
Unlike many analytics tools, it does not focus on marketing analytics, attribution modelling, or behavioral profiling. It also does not rely solely on browser JavaScript. A server-side baseline helps ensure pageviews are still captured when scripts or beacons fail.
<h3>Hybrid capture engine</h3>
The plugin combines server-side pageview capture with optional browser-side signals.
Typical flow:
Browser request 
↓ 
Server pageview baseline 
↓ 
Browser attach (Beacon) 
– engagement pings 
– interaction events 
↓ 
Correlation via pageview identifiers 
↓ 
Bot classification and exclusions 
↓ 
Deduplication and storage
This architecture helps keep capture reliable under real-world conditions where browser-only tracking can miss signals.
<h3>Event correlation and deduplication</h3>
Quantely Activity links browser-side signals back to the pageview where they occurred.
Engagement pings, clicks, form submissions, and similar events can be correlated to their originating pageview. Built-in deduplication helps avoid duplicate records when similar signals are captured from both browser and server-side sources.
This keeps the activity stream more accurate and easier to interpret.
<h3>Fully on-site</h3>
All captured activity is stored in your own WordPress database.
Quantely Activity does not send captured activity data to external services. IP addresses are never stored in plain form, and the plugin does not perform cross-site tracking.
<h3>Privacy-aware design</h3>
The plugin is designed with privacy-conscious principles in mind:
<ul>
<li>No plain IP addresses stored</li>
<li>Short configurable retention window</li>
<li>Optional honoring of GPC / DNT signals</li>
<li>No external tracking services</li>
<li>Data remains on your own site</li>
</ul>
This gives site owners visibility into activity while keeping capture local and controlled.
<h3>Hooks</h3>
Quantely Activity exposes a small developer API for integrations and downstream processing.
<ul>
<li><code>qmon_hit_before_insert</code> — Filter a normalized hit array before it is stored.</li>
<li><code>qmon_hit_recorded</code> — Action fired after a hit has been stored. This is the main integration point for forwarding or persisting captured records.</li>
<li><code>qmon_event_normalize</code> — Filter a normalized event payload before it is finalized.</li>
<li><code>qmon_event_db_dedupe_window_sec</code> — Filter the database deduplication window for events.</li>
<li><code>qmon_bot_verdict</code> — Filter the bot-classification verdict before it is finalized.</li>
</ul>

Quantely Activity

Quantely Activity is a lightweight, first-party plugin for WordPress that records pageviews and events.

BT Visitor Insights vs Quantely Activity