Description
Codersly Visitor Tracker is a privacy-aware website visitor tracking plugin for WordPress that helps site owners understand who visits their website, which pages they view, where traffic comes from, and how human visitors and bots interact with the site.
This website visitor tracking plugin records visitor activity in a local WordPress database table and displays useful traffic analytics inside the WordPress admin area. You can review visitor logs, page views, landing pages, current pages, referrers, browser information, visit times, devices, and visitor type without sending visitor analytics data to Codersly.
Codersly Visitor Tracker is built for WordPress site owners, bloggers, developers, agencies, and small businesses that need simple website visitor tracking, local visitor analytics, referrer tracking, page-level traffic insights, bot detection, and lightweight website traffic statistics directly inside WordPress.
The plugin is free and fully functional. All included features are available immediately after activation. Optional add-on information screens may be shown only to describe features available in a separate Pro add-on; those screens do not contain disabled controls, license checks, or Pro feature code.
What is website visitor tracking?
Website visitor tracking is the process of recording and analyzing visitor activity on a website, such as page visits, landing pages, referrers, browsers, visit times, and traffic type. Codersly Visitor Tracker brings this website visitor tracking workflow into the WordPress dashboard with local storage and privacy-aware controls.
Why use Codersly Visitor Tracker for website visitor tracking?
- Track website visitors inside WordPress without relying only on a hosted analytics dashboard.
- View visitor logs, page views, landing pages, current pages, referrers, browser name, and visit time.
- Understand website traffic sources such as direct visits, search traffic, referral traffic, and bot traffic.
- Separate human visitors, suspected bots, verified bots, and unknown traffic.
- Store visitor tracking records locally in your own WordPress database.
- Use lightweight page-view beacons designed for simple website traffic tracking.
- Exclude selected logged-in user roles from visitor tracking.
- Enable optional approximate location lookup only when your site policy allows it.
- Improve basic website analytics, content decisions, and traffic review from the WordPress admin area.
Main features
- Website visitor tracking dashboard for WordPress
- Website traffic statistics and visitor counters
- Visitor logs with filtering and pagination
- Page-view tracking for landing pages and current pages
- Referrer tracking with raw referrer, referrer host, referrer type, source, and medium
- Browser and device-related visitor information
- Human, suspected bot, verified bot, and unknown visitor classification
- First-touch referrer and landing-page recording using lightweight browser storage
- Tracking settings, privacy settings, approximate location lookup settings, and role exclusions
- Local database storage for recorded visitor activity
- Lightweight beacon fallback for quick browser visits
- Privacy-aware website analytics without sending visitor records to Codersly
What can you track?
Codersly Visitor Tracker can record key website visitor tracking data such as page path, landing page, current page, referrer, referrer host, browser name, user agent, IP address, visit time, and bot-detection fields. If approximate location lookup is enabled by the site administrator, the plugin may also store approximate location fields returned by the configured GeoIP provider.
Privacy-focused local website visitor tracking
This website visitor tracking plugin stores visitor analytics data locally in your WordPress database. It does not send visitor tracking data to Codersly. Approximate location lookup is disabled by default and only runs when the site administrator enables it.
Who is this plugin for?
Codersly Visitor Tracker is useful for:
- WordPress website owners who want basic website visitor tracking.
- Bloggers who want to see which posts and pages receive traffic.
- Small businesses that need visitor logs and page-level traffic insights.
- Agencies and developers that manage WordPress websites for clients.
- Site administrators who want local visitor analytics with bot classification.
- Website owners who want a lightweight alternative for simple traffic review.
Website visitor tracking use cases
- Check which pages visitors open most often.
- Review landing pages and current pages.
- Understand referral traffic and direct traffic.
- Identify suspected bots and verified bots.
- Monitor basic website traffic activity from WordPress.
- Review visitor logs during SEO, content, or campaign analysis.
- Keep visitor tracking records inside the site database.
- Exclude admin or logged-in user roles from tracking.
Free plugin and optional Pro add-on
Codersly Visitor Tracker includes the core website visitor tracking dashboard, visitor list, referrer information, page tracking, privacy settings, and bot classification in the free plugin.
A separate Codersly Visitor Tracker Pro add-on may be available from Codersly outside WordPress.org. The Pro add-on is not included in this WordPress.org plugin package.
Optional add-on information
A separate Codersly Visitor Tracker Pro add-on may be available from Codersly outside WordPress.org. That separate add-on is not included in this WordPress.org plugin package.
The free plugin may show informational add-on screens, similar to feature comparison pages, so site administrators can see which additional screens are provided by the separate add-on. These screens are informational only: they do not include disabled controls, hidden feature code, license gates, report engines, export actions, campaign tracking engines, live monitoring engines, or cleanup actions.
The separate add-on may provide additional admin screens and workflows such as advanced analytics, live visitor monitoring, campaign reports, export tools, and data cleanup tools. These add-on features are provided by a separate plugin package outside WordPress.org and are not part of this submitted free plugin.
Learn more about the separate add-on at: https://codersly.com/product/codersly-visitors-tracker-pro-wordpress-plugin-license/
Privacy
This plugin stores visitor data locally in the WordPress database. It may store visitor IP address, user agent, page path, referrer, browser name, approximate location fields, visit time, and bot-detection fields.
The plugin does not send visitor analytics data to Codersly.
Approximate location lookup is disabled by default. If the site administrator enables approximate location lookup, the visitor IP address may be sent in the background to an external GeoIP provider selected by the plugin/provider filter. The result is cached locally to reduce repeated requests.
Site owners are responsible for updating their privacy policy and obtaining any consent required by their local laws before enabling tracking or external location lookup.
External services
This plugin can optionally connect to external GeoIP services to look up approximate visitor city/country from an IP address. This feature is disabled by default and only runs when the site administrator enables approximate location lookup.
When enabled, the visitor IP address is sent to the selected GeoIP provider during a background lookup after a visit is recorded. The service returns approximate location data such as country, city, latitude and longitude when available.
Supported GeoIP providers:
- ipwho.is – used for approximate IP location lookup. Terms: https://ipwhois.io/terms, Privacy Policy: https://ipwhois.io/privacy
- ip-api.com – optional approximate IP location lookup provider. Terms: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal, Privacy Policy: https://ip-api.com/docs/legal
- DB-IP – optional approximate IP location lookup provider. Terms: https://db-ip.com/tos.php, Privacy Policy: https://db-ip.com/privacy.php
Captures d’écrans
Installation
- Upload the plugin files to
/wp-content/plugins/codersly-visitor-tracker/, or install the plugin through the WordPress Plugins screen. - Activate Codersly Visitor Tracker.
- Open Visitors Tracker Dashboard.
- Configure tracking and privacy options from Visitors Tracker Settings.
FAQ
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What is Codersly Visitor Tracker?
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Codersly Visitor Tracker is a website visitor tracking plugin for WordPress. It records visitor activity, referrers, pages, browser details, visit time, and human/bot classification inside the WordPress admin area.
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What is website visitor tracking?
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Website visitor tracking means recording and reviewing visitor activity on a website, including page views, landing pages, referrers, browsers, visit times, and traffic type. Codersly Visitor Tracker helps WordPress users view this data from the admin dashboard.
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Who should use this website visitor tracking plugin?
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This plugin is useful for WordPress site owners, bloggers, developers, agencies, and small businesses that want lightweight website visitor tracking, visitor logs, referrer tracking, page-level traffic insights, and bot detection inside WordPress.
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Does the plugin send analytics data to Codersly?
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No. Visitor records are stored locally in your WordPress database. Optional GeoIP lookup can contact the configured GeoIP provider if the site administrator enables approximate location lookup.
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Does it record referrers accurately?
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The plugin stores the browser-provided referrer and normalizes it into host/type/source/medium when available. Empty browser referrers are treated as Direct/Unknown instead of being guessed incorrectly. Exact referrer availability depends on the visitor browser and the referring site’s referrer policy.
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Can I see which pages visitors viewed?
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Yes. The plugin can record landing page and current page information so site administrators can review basic page-level website visitor tracking data inside WordPress.
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Does the plugin separate humans and bots?
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Yes. It records human, suspected bot, verified bot, and unknown visitor types so the dashboard and Visitors list can separate browser-verified visits from automated traffic.
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Can I exclude logged-in user roles from tracking?
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Yes. Use Visitors Tracker Settings Privacy to exclude selected WordPress user roles.
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Is approximate location tracking enabled by default?
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No. Approximate location lookup is disabled by default. It only runs if the site administrator enables it and accepts the privacy responsibilities for using an external GeoIP provider.
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Is this plugin lightweight?
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Codersly Visitor Tracker is designed as a lightweight website visitor tracking plugin for WordPress. It records visits locally and uses simple tracking and beacon logic for basic visitor analytics.
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Is Codersly Visitor Tracker suitable for SEO traffic review?
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Yes. The plugin can help site owners review basic website traffic activity, referrers, landing pages, current pages, and visitor types. It does not replace a complete SEO platform, but it can support simple content and traffic analysis inside WordPress.
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Journal des modifications
1.0.6
- Improved website visitor tracking description and keyword positioning for clearer WordPress.org search relevance.
- Improved human/bot classification so a JavaScript beacon alone is no longer treated as enough proof of a human visit.
- Added browser-like search infrastructure IP detection for Google-style renderer/proxy traffic that can execute JavaScript.
- Improved high-rate page scan detection even when a referrer is present.
- Added rapid pagination crawl detection for patterns such as
/blog/page/4/,/blog/page/5/, and/blog/page/6/. - Kept existing free/Pro informational placeholder screens and Pro add-on compatibility unchanged.
1.0.5
- Adjusted admin tabs to a slightly taller compact height while leaving filter controls unchanged.
- Fixed the Visitors Type column styling so Suspected Bot and Verified Bot badges display with a red background for clearer bot identification.
- Restored slim admin navigation tabs and kept Visitors filter controls compact and aligned in one row on wider screens.
- Improved Visitors referrer display by showing the first-touch/session referrer when the raw browser referrer is unavailable.
- Added missing tracking helper methods to prevent visitor beacon and server-side tracking fatal errors.
- Added the missing GDPR include placeholder for cleaner plugin loading.
1.0.4
- Improved readme description for clearer WordPress visitor tracking, privacy, referrer, page, and bot-detection information.
- Fixed Pro add-on compatibility so free informational placeholders and Get Pro boxes do not render when an active Pro license is present.
- Added Pro-active checks to hide free Pro badges in shared admin tabs and submenu labels.
1.0.3
- Added SEO-style informational add-on screens for separately available Pro features, without disabled controls, license checks, or Pro feature implementation code.
- Improved admin tab compactness and visitor filter field spacing/alignment.
- Removed unused advanced stats REST route from the WordPress.org package.
- Removed unused attribution-specific stored fields from the free package schema and insert logic.
- Kept Dashboard, Visitors, and Settings as the complete included free admin screens.
- Kept boolean settings sanitized with
rest_sanitize_boolean. - Kept human/bot classification improvements and hardened visitor IP handling.
1.0.2
- Updated package version to 1.0.2 for the WordPress.org review upload.
- Removed unregistered bot/referrer report screen code from the free package.
- Updated boolean setting sanitization to use
rest_sanitize_boolean. - Improved input sanitization, nonce validation, escaping, and admin UI spacing.
- Improved human/bot classification for JS-capable scanners and browser automation.
- Hardened visitor IP detection by avoiding untrusted forwarded headers unless the immediate proxy is trusted.
- Kept Direct/Unknown referrers honest when browsers or scanners send no referrer instead of guessing a source.
1.0.1
- Improved input sanitization, nonce validation, escaping, and admin UI spacing.
1.0.0
- Initial release.
- Added lightweight visitor tracking dashboard, Visitors, and Settings.
- Added human/bot/unknown visitor classification fields.
- Added raw referrer, normalized referrer, landing page, and current page recording.
- Added first-touch referrer recording using lightweight session/cookie storage.
- Added a page-exit beacon fallback for quick browser visits without blocking page load.