IP-Sonar

Track and analyze your website visitors with detailed geolocation data, understand where your traffic comes from, and control access by country.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Country-Based Access Control – Block or allow visitors from specific countries</li>
<li>Traffic Source Tracking – See how visitors find your site (search engines, social media, referrals, direct)</li>
<li>Geolocation Data – Country, region, city, coordinates, and timezone</li>
<li>Search Terms Capture – Track search terms from Google, Bing, Yahoo, and more</li>
<li>Privacy Compliant – Automatic data cleanup after 7 days</li>
<li>User-Friendly Dashboard – Clean interface with visual statistics</li>
<li>SEO Friendly – Option to allow search engine bots regardless of country restrictions</li>
</ul>
Performance Note:
By default, the plugin uses asynchronous tracking for fast page loads. Geolocation data is fetched in the background. You can enable synchronous mode in settings if you need immediate access control on first visits (may add 1-2 seconds for new visitors).
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
This plugin collects IP addresses, user agents, page URLs, timestamps, and referrer information for geolocation and traffic analytics. IP addresses are processed by IP-Sonar API. Data is automatically deleted after 7 days.
<h3>Third Party Services</h3>
This plugin uses the IP-Sonar API (https://ip-sonar.com) for geolocation data. IP addresses are sent to this service for processing. 
* Terms: https://ip-sonar.com/terms-of-service/ 
* Privacy: https://ip-sonar.com/privacy-policy/

Visitors by IP-Sonar

Track website visitors with geolocation data, traffic source analysis, and country-based access control powered by IP-Sonar API.

IP2Location

This plugin will NOT work if any cache plugin is enabled.
This plugin enables user to block unwanted traffic from accessing your frontend (blog pages) or backend (admin area) by countries or proxy servers. It helps to reduce spam and unwanted sign ups easily by preventing unwanted visitors from browsing a particular page or entire website.
Key Features
<ul>
<li>Allow you to block the access from multiple countries.</li>
<li>Allow you to block the access by country grouping, such as EU, APAC, and so on.</li>
<li>Allow you to block the access from anonymous proxies.</li>
<li>Allow you to block the access by IP ranges.</li>
<li>Allow you to whitelist the crawler, for example, Google, Bing, Yandex, and so on, to index your pages (SEO friendly).</li>
<li>Supports IPv4 and IPv6</li>
<li>Default to 403 error (Permission Denied) display</li>
<li>Allow you to customize your own 403 page.</li>
<li>Send you an email notification if some one is trying to access your admin area.</li>
<li>Provide you statistical report of traffics blocked.</li>
</ul>
This plugin supports both IP2Location BIN data and web service for IP geolocation lookup. If you would like to use the IP2Location geolocation BIN data, you can easily download and update the BIN data via the plugin settings page. Alternatively, you can also download and update the BIN data file manually using the below links:
IP Geolocation file download: 
<a href="https://lite.ip2location.com" title="IP2Location LITE database" rel="nofollow ugc">IP2Location & IP2Proxy LITE database (Free)</a> 
<a href="https://ip2location.com" title="IP2Location commercial database" rel="nofollow ugc">IP2Location & IP2Proxy Commercial database (Comprehensive)</a>
To use the IP2Location IP geolocation web service (REST API) for geolocation, you’ll need to register an account at <a href="https://www.ip2location.io" title="IP2Location.io IP Geolocation API" rel="nofollow ugc">IP2Location.io IP Geolocation API</a>. A free plan is available.
<h4>More Information</h4>
Please visit us at <a href="https://www.ip2location.com" title="https://www.ip2location.com" rel="nofollow ugc">https://www.ip2location.com</a>

IP2Location Country Blocker

Plugin does it job, it blocks unwanted countries
Although it misses some functionality:
1. Not possible to set a threshold after which the IP gets blocked forever.
2. The email sent is not very clear from which part of the site it is coming frontend or backend


Great plugin for blocking foreighn countries

Blocks unwanted visitors from accessing your frontend (blog pages) or backend (admin area) by countries or proxy servers.

Visitors by IP-Sonar vs IP2Location Country Blocker