MattGeri

<p>Watchtower is a plugin that monitors your WordPress website and alerts you of any issues that show up unexpectedly. Think of it as your WordPress guardian angel.</p>
<p>While we’re still quite fresh, we’re constantly growing and expanding the features of the plugin. We currently support uptime monitoring, performance auditing/tracking and alerts/notifications.</p>
<p>Watchtower is free but there is a <a href="https://usewatchtower.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Pro plan</a> which allows you to super charge the features of the plugin to include things such as SMS sending and faster alert/audit times.</p>
<h4>Uptime Monitoring</h4>
<p>Watchtower notifies you when your WordPress website is down. Once connected, we’ll constantly ping your WordPress website and notify when it is unavailable or returning an error.</p>
<h4>Performance Monitoring</h4>
<p>Performance can the difference between a user continuing to browse your website and clicking the close tab button. It also helps you rank better in the search engines and improve your SEO. Watchtower lets you know exactly where you stand in terms of performance.</p>
<h4>Web Vitals</h4>
<p>Our performance metrics are powered by Web Vitals by Google. Google has developed key metrics around performance of websites called <a href="https://web.dev/vitals/" rel="nofollow ugc">Web Vitals</a>. We track these metrics on an ongoing basis and report the results back to you.</p>
<h4>Notifications</h4>
<p>Configuring notifications is easy in Watchtower. Add as many email, SMS or Whatsapp contacts as you’d like and they’ll all receive alerts when activated.</p>
<h4>Reporting</h4>
<p>Watchtower reports on uptime issues and performance directly from your WordPress dashboard. You’ll be able to check your stats over a given time period and see a list of alerts that have been sent.</p>
<h4>Pro Plan</h4>
<p>As mentioned, Watchtower is free. If you’d like faster alerting, SMS alerts and other more advanced features you can upgrade your account. Check out the <a href="https://usewatchtower.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Watchtower</a> website to see the Pro features that are available and the pricing.</p>
<h4>Icon Credit</h4>
<p>The Watchtower icon was created by <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/authors/freepik/" rel="nofollow ugc">Freepik</a> from <a href="https://www.flaticon.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">www.flaticon.com</a></p>


Watchtower

Uptime and performance auditing, monitoring and alerting for WordPress.

digmedia

<p>The DM User Tracking plugin is a fully featured, page by page tracking plugin for your blog. Every time a page is visited on your blog, the plugin logs a whole host of information on the person who visited the page.</p>
<p>The plugin is totally customisable from what you decide to track to what you decide you want to see. There is an optional dashboard widget included for a quick overview of recent visitors as well as a search feature for you to accurately sift through your tracking log and find the results you are looking for.</p>
<p><em>Data that is tracked by default:</em></p>
<ul>
<li>IP address (including an attempt to locate IP addresses from behind a proxy)</li>
<li>The HTTP referrer (what page the user was viewing before they clicked)</li>
<li>The time of the click</li>
<li>User ID</li>
<li>User Level (admin, editor, so on)</li>
<li>Display Name</li>
<li>Browser</li>
<li>Operating System</li>
<li>The page they visited</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Data that is not tracked by default but can be enabled:</em></p>
<ul>
<li>GET variables</li>
<li>POST variables</li>
<li>Cookies</li>
</ul>
<p>Please be sure to read the “Other Notes” section to view your responsibilities<br />
in using this plugin.</p>
<h3>Your Responsibility</h3>
<p>Upon installing this plugin you need to realise that you are potentially logging<br />
a lot of sensitive information on your users. You accept that by installing this<br />
plugin you are accepting not to misuse or abuse this data in any way. I will not<br />
take responsibility of any case of misuse of data caused by this plugin. That is<br />
the sole responsibility of the person who installed the plugin..This plugin is currently incompatible with the multi user function of wordpress we are working on updating the plugin to support the multiuser functionality.</p>
<p>.This plugin does not currently support blocking of ip addresses.</p>


DM User Tracking

An extensive, customisable, fully featured user tracking plugin.

Watchtower vs DM User Tracking