Track Your Readers Live With Wassup Wordpress Plugin
I was doing up my wife’s blog and she asked me for a plugin that would track visitors live on a blog. So I started searching around and found this plugin called Wassup Plugin which is a free plugin that tracks live visitors.
I felt the plugin has really great features and decided to share it with you guys and recommend you all to install it to your blog.
WassUp shows a lot of data from who is visiting your blog like:
- ip / hostname
- referer
- spider
- search engines used (includes Google Images)
- keywords
- SERP (search engine result page)
- operating system / language / browser
- pages viewed (chronologically and per user session)
- complete user agent
- name of user logged in
- name of comment’s author
- top ten charts with aggregate data (top queries, requests, referrers, os, browsers)
- graph for hits/pages/spam
The admin console is very nice and you can customize it by:
- records by date range
- records per page
- records per entry type (spider, search engine, referer)
- expand/collapse informations (with ajax support)
- search by IP address
- mark by IP address
- delete recordon the fly
There are 4 views:
- Spy view like Digg Spy
- Current Online view
- Details view
- Options to customize WassUp
Many options are customizable:
- Refreshing minutes
- Users levels required
- Default items page limit
- Default items type
- Enable/Disable recording
- Record or not users logged in
- Record or not spiders and bots
- Record or not exploit attempts (libwww-perl user agent)
- Record or not spam attempts
- IPs to exclude from recording
- Alert admin for table growth
- Empty/Reset the database table
- Export current table in SQL format
- Automatically deletes records older then selected period (day, week, months, year)
- Manually deletes records older then selected period (day, week, months, year)
Screen shots of the features on my blog
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Personally I love to see where my blog readers come from, with this feature I will be even able to see which part of the country they come from and even know what post they are reading about 
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It also provides a nice bar chart, you show you the latest hits rates on your blog. As you can see above there were 2437 visits for the past 24 hours on my blog and the interesting part the bottom part is refresh every 10 seconds showing you LIVE what your readers are reading
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Another cool feature, you can also see the number of visitors live online at the moment on your blog and also at the same time view what they are seeing LIVE on your blog
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To find out more about the Wassup Plugin you can visit their website at this link here and download the free plugin. If you have any recommendation of other great plugins do post your comments below and share it with everyone else in the community
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This is great. I didn’t know it.
Nice plugin but if I’m not wrong AWSTATS serves the same function. By the way AWSTATS can be found under logs in CPanel. Thanks for the heads up though.
Hi Alvin,
Another great find and even better explained. I have downloaded the plugin but not activated as yet.
Once again thanks…
Till The next time…Success Together…
Mayur Sangani
http://www.eternalblogging.com
Just recently downloaded this plugin, is a good plugin that track visitors around the globe…
Yeah I didn’t update either. I don’t see a MUST to do it anyway. By the way nice plugin but it seems alittle foreign at the moment..
Ben
There is one thing I do not like about the plugin though I find it very useful. If you want Google not to know you have this blog, then Wassup will tell.
The chart of visitors is made using Google Chart API. I have found that for some blogs I didn’t want them to index, they just discovered it through the use of this plugin, I think, certainly with some cookie left.
The same occurs when you activate Google Maps. Somehow, with your cookie from GMail or Adsense, they’ll succeed to relate your account with the blog.
One advice to go against this. You can check your acount (GMail and Adsense) in one browser (let’s say Firefox) and administer your blog with another (IE for example).
Alvin,
Thanks for sharing this plugin to us. Just a question. I am wondering why you didn’t updated your wife blog to Wordpress 2.7?
I did not upgrade is because once I upgrade I got to upgrade all the old version of the plugin which I am lazy to do..