Green Website

<p><strong>GW Live Visitors</strong> gives you real-time insights about your website traffic directly inside the WordPress admin.<br />
See how many visitors are currently active, what pages are trending, and where your traffic is coming from — without exposing any counters publicly.</p>
<p>Unlike heavy analytics tools, GW Live Visitors is <strong>lightweight, privacy-friendly and focused on what really matters</strong>:<br />
– Real-time visitor count (updated automatically)<br />
– Top pages and activity trends<br />
– Admin-only view (no public display)<br />
– Sessions stored only short-term (24h / 7d) for performance and privacy</p>
<p>Why only 24h / 7d?<br />
Because the goal is <strong>speed and simplicity</strong>. Keeping session data forever would bloat your database, slow down queries, and create GDPR/privacy concerns. By limiting storage, the plugin stays fast and keeps your data footprint small — while still giving you meaningful daily and weekly insights.</p>
<p>If you need long-term analytics, you can combine this with a dedicated tool such as Matomo, Plausible or Google Analytics.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>GW Live Visitors makes use of the following external libraries and data sources:</p>
<h4>Leaflet.js</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purpose: Interactive map display of visitor locations.</li>
<li>License: BSD 2-Clause License</li>
<li>Homepage: https://leafletjs.com/</li>
</ul>
<h4>OpenStreetMap Tiles</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purpose: Map tiles for the visitor map.</li>
<li>License: Open Database License (ODbL)</li>
<li>Homepage: https://www.openstreetmap.org/</li>
</ul>
<h4>World Countries GeoJSON</h4>
<ul>
<li>Purpose: Country boundaries and metadata for highlighting top countries.</li>
<li>License: MIT License</li>
<li>Source: https://github.com/mledoze/countries</li>
</ul>
<h4>IP Geolocation (optional)</h4>
<p>If geolocation is enabled in the plugin settings, the visitor’s IP address is sent to a third-party service to resolve country and approximate coordinates. Users can choose which provider to use or keep geolocation disabled for full privacy.</p>
<ul>
<li>ipapi.co — Used to look up the visitor’s country and coordinates. Sends the visitor’s IP address on each request. Terms: https://ipapi.co/terms/ — Privacy: https://ipapi.co/privacy/</li>
<li>ipinfo.io — Used to look up the visitor’s country and coordinates. Sends the visitor’s IP address on each request. Terms: https://ipinfo.io/legal — Privacy: https://ipinfo.io/privacy-policy</li>
</ul>
<h3>Privacy Notice</h3>
<p>By default, GW Live Visitors does <strong>not</strong> collect, transmit or store any personally identifiable information (PII).<br />
Only anonymous session IDs and page hits are stored locally in your WordPress database.</p>
<p>If you enable the “Collect IP, User-Agent, country & coordinates” setting, the following applies:</p>
<ul>
<li>Visitor IP addresses, User-Agent strings, and derived geolocation data may be stored locally in your database.  </li>
<li>When using an external geolocation provider (ipapi.co or ipinfo.io), the visitor’s IP address is transmitted to that service in order to resolve country and approximate coordinates.  </li>
<li>No cookies are set by this plugin.  </li>
<li>All data remains private to your WordPress installation unless you choose to export it.  </li>
</ul>
<p>It is the site owner’s responsibility to update their site’s privacy policy if enabling IP and geolocation collection.</p>


GW Live Visitors

Real-time visitor stats and trends in your dashboard. Fast, private and focused on short-term insights.

devlinduldulao

<p>Devlin Geo Pulse helps merchants understand current storefront activity in real time while keeping the data model intentionally minimal and privacy-first.</p>
<p>What it does:</p>
<ul>
<li>Anonymous storefront heartbeat tracking</li>
<li>Active visitor count in WooCommerce admin</li>
<li>Ranked country pulse view for active visitors</li>
<li>Compact device-mix snapshot for the live heartbeat window</li>
<li>Top country and new-visitors-last-minute metrics</li>
<li>WordPress Dashboard widget for at-a-glance live metrics without leaving the main Dashboard</li>
<li>Admin toolbar live visitor indicator visible from every admin page</li>
<li>WooCommerce dashboard page under <strong>WooCommerce > Live Geo Pulse</strong></li>
<li>WooCommerce settings tab under <strong>WooCommerce > Settings > Devlin Geo Pulse</strong></li>
<li>Privacy-first storage using short-lived active presence only</li>
<li>WooCommerce settings for enabling tracking and adjusting heartbeat cadence</li>
</ul>
<p>Privacy guardrails:</p>
<ul>
<li>No raw IP addresses are stored</li>
<li>No personally identifiable information is stored</li>
<li>No persistent visitor history is retained</li>
<li>Presence data expires automatically when heartbeats stop</li>
</ul>
<p>How it works:</p>
<ol>
<li>A lightweight frontend script sends anonymous heartbeat requests from the storefront.</li>
<li>The plugin derives a coarse country code and device bucket from request metadata.</li>
<li>Active presence is stored only in short-lived cache/transient state.</li>
<li>The WooCommerce admin dashboard polls a summary endpoint for live updates.</li>
</ol>
<p>The admin dashboard can optionally expose a preview traffic control that creates short-lived sample visitors so the UI can be previewed without opening multiple storefront tabs.</p>
<p>The merchant dashboard uses native WordPress and WooCommerce admin patterns so the interface feels familiar inside a standard store management workflow.</p>


Devlin Geo Pulse

A privacy-first WooCommerce plugin that shows current live visitor presence by country without storing persistent visitor history.

GW Live Visitors vs Devlin Geo Pulse