Dmitri Martin

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.
<h3>What Makes It Different</h3>
<ul>
<li>✅ Logs requests for both cached and non-cached pages</li>
<li>✅ Lets you export raw traffic logs as raw CSV for your own analysis</li>
<li>✅ Identifies repeat ad clicks for spotting potential click fraud</li>
<li>✅ Reveals which bots are hitting your site, so you can block them elsewhere (example: Cloudflare)</li>
<li>✅ Tracks IP address, fingerprint, device type, cache status, response code, and more</li>
<li>✅ Displays referrer URLs and query strings</li>
<li>✅ Records the original source of requests by the same visitor as they surf your website</li>
<li>✅ Doesn’t auto-block or inject junk—just clean, useful data</li>
<li>✅ Works great with Cloudflare, caching plugins, and reverse proxies</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Logs every page request, including IP address, referrer, user-agent, browser, device, method, and more.</li>
<li>Detects cached traffic even if served by Cloudflare, your web host, or a plugin.</li>
<li>Identifies bot traffic by bot name and category.</li>
<li>View click IDs like gclid and fbclid from ad platforms like Google and Meta.</li>
<li>Records repeat ad clicks to detect potential click fraud.</li>
<li>Bulk delete or export logs with one click.</li>
<li>Search, sort, and drill into data from your dashboard.</li>
<li>Built-in help tabs with definitions, setup help, and troubleshooting.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Use Cases</h3>
<ul>
<li>Debug integrations instantly: Know exactly what URLs are being hit, by which devices, and with what parameters. No guesswork.</li>
<li>Spot caching gaps: See which pages are served from cache and which aren’t, even with Cloudflare or plugin-level caching.</li>
<li>Understand real-world traffic: Track entry pages, referrers, devices, and browsers—whether human or bot.</li>
<li>Catch click fraud signals: Identify repeat ad clicks tied to the same IP/user agent fingerprint or session, even if served from cache.</li>
<li>Audit referrers: View exactly which websites or campaigns are driving traffic (including query strings).</li>
<li>Filter out noise: Use bot labels and device types to focus only on human traffic when analyzing patterns.</li>
</ul>

Traffic Monitor

Lightweight traffic logger for WordPress analytics. View, filter, and export page request data; monitor caching; detect bots; and spot click fraud.

Matt Gibbs

<h4>Log and view all WP HTTP requests</h4>
How long do [core / plugin / theme] update checks take to run? What data about my site is being sent out? What about all those ajax requests? The answers to these questions are just a few clicks away.
This plugin logs all WP_HTTP requests and displays them in a table listing for easy viewing. It also stores the runtime of each HTTP request.
<h4>Available Hooks</h4>
Customize the length (in days) before older log items are removed:
<pre>
add_filter( 'lhr_expiration_days', function( $days ) {
 return 7; // default = 1
});
</pre>
Don’t log items from a specific hostname:
<pre>
add_filter( 'lhr_log_data', function( $data ) {
 if ( false !== strpos( $data['url'], 'wordpress.org' ) ) {
 return false;
 }
 return $data;
});
</pre>
In the above example, the <code>$data</code> array keys correspond to columns within the <code>lhr_log</code> database table.
<h4>Important Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/FacetWP/log-http-requests" rel="nofollow ugc">Github →</a></li>
</ul>

Log HTTP Requests

Exactly what you need when you debug API requests. Thanks!

Excellent.

Works exactly as advertised so far. Really helpful for figuring out if any plugins/themes are phoning home unnecessarily.
FYI after you've used this plugin to find out who's calling where, you can add "define('WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL', true);" to your wp-config.php to block ANY requests outwards. You'll probably want to also whitelist domains you trust with the WP_ACCESSIBLE_HOSTS parameter. E.g. if you're polling data from instagram or youtube api, and what not.
(Credit to Markus Philipp Stefanko for those tips)

Really helpful!

This plugin has become indispensable for plugin development particularly debugging API requests. Thank you very much.

Thank You!

The Log HTTP Requests plugin might be my favorite troubleshooting tool of all time. It's helped me pinpoint intermittent issues that we never would have seen otherwise. THANK YOU, FacetWP!  :)

My favorite troubleshooting tool

The plugin is very good and useful and I am very grateful to its developer. 

Bravo 😍

This plugin is so helpful for tracking down whether an HTTP request was made at all, and when it was, what data was sent and what response was received. It's invaluable for tracking down bugs tied to unexpected responses and requests.

Great Troubleshooting Aid


This plugin has proven to be an indispensable tool for tracking and analyzing HTTP requests. Its ability to reveal whether a request was made, along with detailed insights into the transmitted data and received responses, is simply remarkable. The clarity it provides is instrumental for troubleshooting and optimizing processes. A must-have for anyone dealing with HTTP interactions


Invaluable Insight for HTTP Requests

The plugin does exactly what it says it does, and works perfect every time.

I've used it quite a lot for troubleshooting purposes and have yet to discover any issues.

Kind regards, Jarno 

Traffic Monitor vs Log HTTP Requests