WP SlimStat

WP SlimStat will help webmasters keep track of their site's traffic, recording the information into a MySQL database and making it available via a series of charts and widgets in the WP admin panel.

From recent visitors to screen resolution, admins can keep track of how the users are utilizing the site, all in real-time.

To understand the logged data much easier, WP SlimStat outputs it using charts and graphs, and datagrids where useful.

The plugin can be considered a real alternative to cloud-hosted systems like Google Analytics, and a much secure and private way to analyze your traffic without keeping the data on Google's servers.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.

Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

What is new in this release:

• New:
• Option to configure the tracker to work in asynchronous mode.
• Update:
• Browscap library updated to version 6012, released on February 4th, 2016.
• Fixes:
• The tracker was erroneously returning "invalid checksum" even when other errors were occurring, or filters being applied to a pageview.
• The JavaScript tracker was not compressed.
• Top Pages Not Found report had been removed by mistake.

What is new in version 4.1.8.1:

• New:
• Our dev team is moving forward with their effort to give Slimstat's source code a good scrub. After cleaning up the database library, it was now the report library's turn. Again, if you developed your own custom report, you will probably need to update your code to make it work with our new library. We are going to update our online documentation in the next few days.
• The DB library function wp_slimstat_db::get_popular has been renamed wp_slimstat_db::get_top for consistency with the rest our codebase. Please update your code accordingly.
• Say hello to your new shortcodes. We merged the ShortCodes add-on directly into our main plugin. This improves the overall performance and streamlines our software lifecycle. Please note: the shortcode syntax has been updated and simplified (you need to replace 'popular' with 'top'). All the information is being added to our knowledge base for your convenience. Stay tuned or contact our support team for more information.
• Update:
• AmMap has been updated to version 3.14.2. Please consider supporting this project by purchasing a license.
• Fixes:
• We took care of various warnings displayed with DEBUG_MODE enabled.
• The data import script failed to do its job in some multisite environments (thank you, pepe).
• In Client Mode (aka Javascript mode), all page content types were being set to 'admin', under certain circumstances.
• The uninstall script was not removing the 'old' tables (wp_slim_stats_3, wp_slim_stats_archive_3).

What is new in version 4.1.6.2:

• New:
• Our dev team is moving forward with their effort to give Slimstat's source code a good scrub. After cleaning up the database library, it was now the report library's turn. Again, if you developed your own custom report, you will probably need to update your code to make it work with our new library. We are going to update our online documentation in the next few days.
• The DB library function wp_slimstat_db::get_popular has been renamed wp_slimstat_db::get_top for consistency with the rest our codebase. Please update your code accordingly.
• Say hello to your new shortcodes. We merged the ShortCodes add-on directly into our main plugin. This improves the overall performance and streamlines our software lifecycle. Please note: the shortcode syntax has been updated and simplified (you need to replace 'popular' with 'top'). All the information is being added to our knowledge base for your convenience. Stay tuned or contact our support team for more information.
• Update:
• AmMap has been updated to version 3.14.2. Please consider supporting this project by purchasing a license.
• Fixes:
• We took care of various warnings displayed with DEBUG_MODE enabled.
• The data import script failed to do its job in some multisite environments (thank you, pepe).
• In Client Mode (aka Javascript mode), all page content types were being set to 'admin', under certain circumstances.
• The uninstall script was not removing the 'old' tables (wp_slim_stats_3, wp_slim_stats_archive_3).

What is new in version 4.1.5:

• New:
• Our dev team is moving forward with their effort to give Slimstat's source code a good scrub. After cleaning up the database library, it was now the report library's turn. Again, if you developed your own custom report, you will probably need to update your code to make it work with our new library. We are going to update our online documentation in the next few days.
• The DB library function wp_slimstat_db::get_popular has been renamed wp_slimstat_db::get_top for consistency with the rest our codebase. Please update your code accordingly.
• Say hello to your new shortcodes. We merged the ShortCodes add-on directly into our main plugin. This improves the overall performance and streamlines our software lifecycle. Please note: the shortcode syntax has been updated and simplified (you need to replace 'popular' with 'top'). All the information is being added to our knowledge base for your convenience. Stay tuned or contact our support team for more information.
• Update:
• AmMap has been updated to version 3.14.2. Please consider supporting this project by purchasing a license.
• Fixes:
• We took care of various warnings displayed with DEBUG_MODE enabled.
• The data import script failed to do its job in some multisite environments (thank you, pepe).
• In Client Mode (aka Javascript mode), all page content types were being set to 'admin', under certain circumstances.
• The uninstall script was not removing the 'old' tables (wp_slim_stats_3, wp_slim_stats_archive_3).

What is new in version 4.1.2:

• New:
• Our dev team is moving forward with their effort to give Slimstat's source code a good scrub. After cleaning up the database library, it was now the report library's turn. Again, if you developed your own custom report, you will probably need to update your code to make it work with our new library. We are going to update our online documentation in the next few days.
• The DB library function wp_slimstat_db::get_popular has been renamed wp_slimstat_db::get_top for consistency with the rest our codebase. Please update your code accordingly.
• Say hello to your new shortcodes. We merged the ShortCodes add-on directly into our main plugin. This improves the overall performance and streamlines our software lifecycle. Please note: the shortcode syntax has been updated and simplified (you need to replace 'popular' with 'top'). All the information is being added to our knowledge base for your convenience. Stay tuned or contact our support team for more information.
• Update:
• AmMap has been updated to version 3.14.2. Please consider supporting this project by purchasing a license.
• Fixes:
• We took care of various warnings displayed with DEBUG_MODE enabled.
• The data import script failed to do its job in some multisite environments (thank you, pepe).
• In Client Mode (aka Javascript mode), all page content types were being set to 'admin', under certain circumstances.
• The uninstall script was not removing the 'old' tables (wp_slim_stats_3, wp_slim_stats_archive_3).

What is new in version 3.9.9:

• A few new options under Slimstat > Settings > General tab > WordPress Integration section, allow you to have more control over the information displayed in the Posts admin screen.

What is new in version 3.9.8.2:

• A few new options under Slimstat > Settings > General tab > WordPress Integration section, allow you to have more control over the information displayed in the Posts admin screen.

What is new in version 3.9.6:

• New:
• Introduced option to ignore bots when in Server-side mode.
• Update:
• Cleaned up the Settings/Filters screen by consolidating some options.
• AmMap has been updated to version 3.13.1
• MaxMind GeoLite IP has been updated to the latest version (2015-02-04).
• Fixed:
• Patched a rare SQL injection vulnerability exploitable using a brute-force attack on the secret key (used to encrypt the data between client and server).
• Increased checks on SQL code that stores data in the database (maybe_insert_row).
• Report filters could not be removed after being set.

What is new in version 3.9:

• New:
• Section under Settings > Filters that allows you to specify what links you want to "leave alone", so that the tracker doesn't interfere with your lightbox treatments.
• Can now turn on the option to collect mouse coordinates for internal links, which will be used to draw the heatmap on your pages.
• Operator "is included in" has been added to search matches in lists of strings.
• Added new reports: Top Bounce Pages, Top Exit Pages, Recent Exit Pages.
• Updated:
• Partial overhaul of the JavaScript tracker. We reintroduced the new algorithm to track pageviews, which now avoids the problem of triggering the popup blocker on links opening in a new tab.
• Added browser and operating system to Spy View report.
• MaxMind GeoLite IP has been updated to the latest version (2014-12-02).
• Fixes:
• Bug in archiving old pageviews under certain circumstances.
• Added max height to overlay, for those who have very long lists of saved filters.
• The button to reset date filters was not being displayed in some cases.

What is new in version 3.8.4:

• You can now archive old pageviews, instead of deleting them.

What is new in version 3.8:

• New:
• Increased the filter granularity to the minute, so that now you can see who visited your website between 9 am and 10.34 am
• If admin is served over HTTPS but IP lookup service is not, don't use inline overlay dialog
• Updated:
• JavaScript libraries: qTip v2.2.1 and SlimScroll 1.3.3
• Fixed:
• Outbound links from within the admin were not tracked as expected
• Firewall Fix add-on was not tracking the originating ip's country as expected

What is new in version 3.7.5:

• Fixed:
• Some plugins are not considerate of the shared environment they use, and don't return data in the right format ;) We added some extra code to make sure the data Slimstat needs is of the correct type
• Compatibility issue with our Firewall Fix add-on

What is new in version 3.7:

• New:
• Japanese localization added
• Added support for SOV Languages
• Added support for our Network Settings premium add-on
• Update:
• All the icons used in the admin are now optimized
• Fixed:
• Introduced some code optimizations (browser detection) that will solve the slow response time once and for all
• Add-ons page was not accessible if menu was attached to the Admin Bar

What is new in version 3.6.7:

• Fixed:
• For each warning was being displayed, related to the latest browscap update.

What is new in version 3.6.2:

• New:
• Can disable SlimScroll if it doesn't work on your browser or mobile device
• Track non-WP pages (within the same domain) with WP SlimStat. Go to Settings > Advanced and get your tracking code
• Fixed:
• Page load speed has been improved introducing some caching mechanisms for certain requests

What is new in version 3.6:

• New:
• Support for network-wide reports is now complete
• Support for network-wide settings is being tested and will be added soon
• Updated:
• MaxMind's IP Database has been updated to the latest version
• French localization had some encoding issues
• Swedish localization has been updated
• Fixed:
• User Overview add-on is now compatible with network-wide reports
• Author filters were not working under certain circumstances

What is new in version 3.5.9:

• Fixes:
• Filters have a more consistent behavior and are now easier to extend via third party add-ons
• Date filters were being set to January 1, 1970 under certain circumstances
• Our premium Export to Excel add-on was only returning the first 20 records of each report

What is new in version 3.5.7:

• Update:
• The GeoLite Database (courtesy of MaxMind) has been updated to the version released on March 5, 2014
• Fixed:
• Delete ALL data under Maintenance tab was not working
• No more PHP memory issues
• Visitors had some empty reports

What is new in version 3.5.5:

• New:
• The new DB API supports natural language dates: day equals today, year equals this year, etc. This brings the Shortcodes add-on to a whole new level of flexibility
• Update:
• Right Now has been renamed Activity Log
• Fix:
• Can't believe nobody had noticed a bug in calculating the bounce rate value. Numbers were way off
• Fix:
• User Overview add-on had some problems with sorting by certain columns
• Filters were not being reset when multiple shortcodes were being used on the same page

What is new in version 3.5:

• New:
• A polished and fully responsive interface, optimized for the new WordPress 3.8 admin layout. If you're still using WP 3.7 or earlier, you may want to stick to version 3.4.3.
• Implemented SlimScroll (what else? hehe) by Piotr Rochala.
• Added qTip 2 to handle tooltips and contextual help.
• Added two new reports: who's currently online (registered users), and top language families (thank you, Vitaly)
• Now you can track 'fake' pageviews (if events are not enough for you)
• Pagination has been added to most reports: now you will not miss anything!
• Updated:
• The 'Latest News' ribbon is now only displayed within the report screens, and it disappears automatically after 5 minutes.
• Browscap has been updated to version 5021-b9, released on Dec 8, 2013
• Most add-ons have been updated to use the new look and feel, icons, etc.
• All the Settings screens have been reorganized and redesigned (and are now fully responsive!). We replaced the old "for geeks only" descriptions with new ones, easier to understand.

What is new in version 3.4.3:

• Fixed:
• A few PHP notices.
• Bug in masking local IP addresses.

What is new in version 3.3.4:

• Now you can export the data from your User Overview custom report, with the Export to Excel add-on.
• Option that allows you to choose if you want to disable outbound links under Right Now.
• 'Today' and 'Yesterday' one-click filters added to the Summary report.
• Can finally track admin pages in WP SlimStat, and see what your users do in your admin. Go to SlimStat > Settings > General to enable this feature.

What is new in version 3.3.1:

• Two new reports added to the Visitors tab: Recent and Top (registered) Users. If you don't see them, go to Settings > Maintenance and click on Reset Tabs
• The new feature to use a separate database has been improved and will be available soon as an add-on on our store
• The information about your visitors' type (mobile, desktop, crawler) has been reintroduced in the form of an icon next to the operating system under Right Now

What is new in version 3.2.3:

• New:
• Added color legend bar to World Map.
• French/Canadian localizations updated.
• Two new reports added: Browser Families and OS Families.
• Update:
• Brazilian localization has been updated.
• AmMap (JavaScript-based World Map) has been updated to version 3.3.1.

What is new in version 3.2.2:

• The new Export add-on has been released.
• Can now refresh the Right Now panel without reloading the entire page.
• Minor cosmetic changes in the CSS.
• A bug was affecting the display of the 'Right Now' panel when Async Mode was enabled.

What is new in version 3.2:

• Added: you can now refresh single reports, instead of reloading the entire page.
• Updated: the size of the 'country' column in the database has been increased to 16 characters (to record information about regions and US States, with the corresponding add-on).
• Fixed: a bug affecting the way Downloads were being tracked.
• Fixed: a bug related to the Asynchronous Mode and filters.
• Fixed: a bug causing a permission error to be displayed in some cases.
• Fixed: if the visitor's originating IP is the same as his public ip, the former won't be recorded.

What is new in version 3.0:

• Added:
• A brand new client-side tracker, which replaces the previous one after 3 years of honorable duty. The new engine implements WordPress Core Developers' guidelines on leveraging WP's built-in Ajax functionality, thus eliminating the need for custom hacks and non-standard implementations.
• SERP positions are now displayed also under the Overview tab.
• Can finally customize those ugly colors associated to known users, search engines, etc. Check the FAQs to learn how.
• Login page (wp-login.php) is now tracked.

What is new in version 2.9.5:

• Fixed:
• Vulnerability that would allow visitors to inject javascript code into the admin, under specific circumstances.

What is new in version 2.9.4:

• Fixed:
• A bug was preventing those users who were using the Refresh Interval feature from visualizing the stats.
• A bug affecting the filter on browsers and operating system in the Right Now tab.
• Updated:
• Some new SQL optimizations have been implemented.

What is new in version 2.9.3:

• Fixed:
• Minor bugs in the core tracking functionality, affecting the way tags associated to posts were recorded.
• Updated:
• IP geolocation database (February 2013). Go to Settings > SlimStat > Maintenance tab > Update Geolocation DB to load the new data.

What is new in version 2.9:

• Added:
• Option to disable outbound/external link tracking.
• Outbound link tracking now records your links' TITLE attribute.
• Have you moved/renamed your wp-config.php and WP SlimStat is complaining about it? Not anymore: create a new file called wp-slimstat-config.php inside your wp-content to point my plugin to your wp-config.
• Option to restrict authors to see only stats for their own content.
• Chinese localization.

What is new in version 2.8.7:

• Fixed:
• Options would reset to the default values on reactivation
• PHP warning when tag has no posts
• wp-slimstat-js.php is now also looking for your wp-config.php in the parent folder

What is new in version 2.8.6:

• Added:
• Link to see a page's stats directly on the Edit Pages screen
• Fixed:
• Empty Right Now screen for some users
• Bug in calculating visit durations
• Updated:
• Improved performance by using optimized SQL queries
• Styles are now compatible with WordPress 3.5
• IP geolocation database (December 2012, 104530 rows). Go to Settings > SlimStat > Maintenance tab > Update Geolocation DB to load the new data.

What is new in version 2.8.5:

• Fixed:
• XSS vulnerability that could be used to inject JavaScript code into the admin.

What is new in version 2.8.4:

• Fixed:
• SQL deadlock when tracking a new page-view.
• SQL bug in WP SlimStat Dashboard.
• Custom Report demo was not using the new API.
• JavaScript tracker compatibility with older versions of Internet Explorer.

What is new in version 2.8.3:

• Javascript-based tracking functionality (a-la Google Analytics), that plays nicely with W3 Total Cache & co.
• Antiflood monitor and database monitor

What is new in version 2.8.1:

• Counter for currently connected users
• Brand-new contextual help, for those overwhelmed by all the information provided by WP SlimStat
• "Show on screen" functionality, to hide/show panels and further customize the layout of WP SlimStat views

What is new in version 2.8:

• WP SlimStat now looks for HTTP headers like X_FORWARDED_FOR to get, when available, private IP addresses of people using proxies
• Can now use wildcards in your filters: * for any string, ! for any single character
• New columns to track even more information about events and outbound links
• Started working on heat maps.
• WP SlimStat won't activate on networks that have more than 50 blogs

What is new in version 2.7:

• Added:
• Goodbye FusionMaps, welcome AmMap, which brings a new world map with pan and zoom capabilities
• Direct access to the panels from the Admin Bar
• Russian localization, thank you Alexander
• Updated:
• 'human' detection is now relying mainly on COOKIES, Javascript is only needed to detect screen resolution and other browser-related information
• Various performance improvements in the tracking code (more than halved DB accesses needed to record a new hit)
• One of the database tables is not needed anymore, deactivate/activate WP SlimStat to get rid of it
• It's now much easier to update the geolocation data, no need to deactivate/activate WP Slimstat anymore
• RTL (right-to-left) support has been greatly improved (thank you Itamar)
• color-codes have a better contrast now (thank you Steve)
• Browscap library has been updated to version 1.0
• Fixed:
• 'is not empty' filter wasn't working properly
• Heuristic browser detection for mobile browsers is now much more accurate
• Geolocation:
• Updated to February 2012, 160222 rows. Go to Options > Maintenance > Reset IP-to-Countries.

What is new in version 2.6:

• Added: option to customize the number of rows shown in the Raw Data view
• Updated: Browscap Engine to the latest release available (November 2011)
• Updated: Minor aesthetic changes to the interface
• Fixed: bug in generating some internal URLs when redirects are in place (thank you Elio and Alexander)
• Fixed: error when parsing search strings with encoding different from UTF-8 (thank you Alexander)
• Fixed: detailed view for recent known visitors

What is new in version 2.5.3:

• Maintenance release: it looks like 2.5.2 shipped with an annoying bug, triggered by some templates out there, preventing visits to be properly tracked. If you haven't experienced any problems, there's no need to upgrade
• Added: option to ignore pageviews generated by Safari via Link Prefetching

What is new in version 2.5.1:

• Updated:
• Browser Detection Database (Released: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 06:38:35 -0000), which includes Firefox 7 and new iPhone patterns
• Fixed:
• Error in generating some links to go to the Details page.
• Conflict with some old Firefox versions in opening tracked links in a new tab
• Geolocation:
• Updated to October 2011, 153683 rows. Go to Options > Maintenance > Reset Ip-to-Countries. Then deactivate/reactivate WP SlimStat to import the new file.

What is new in version 2.5:

• Added: event tracking functionality, to monitor your Google Plus One clicks and much more
• Added: contextual tooltips to describe what some terms mean or how to interpret the numbers (thank you Douglas)
• Added: spammers are now identified with a special 'label' among other users, and can be ignored (thank you Davide)
• Fixed: some glitches in using filters
• Fixed: if a 404 page was listed among your popular resources, its link to open it would not work
• Updated: removed some unused code

What is new in version 2.4.4:

• Fixed: a few bugs that affected network activations, now WP SlimStat should work fine with WPMU.
• Fixed: some PHP warnings in DEBUG mode.
• Fixed: visits coming from the server itself (bots, analyzers, etc) are now ignored.
• Geolocation: updated to August 2011, 150241 rows. Go to Options > Maintenance > Reset Ip-to-Countries. Then deactivate/reactivate WP SlimStat to import the new file.

What is new in version 2.4.3:

• Maintenance release.
• Added: reintroduced support for network activations. As pointed out in the mailing list by some core WordPress developers, there's no ideal solution for large networks, and if your network has more than 40 blogs, the activation process will most likely timeout.
• Added: new color-coded interface to visually identify types of visits on-the-fly (thank you Davide). Refer to the Raw Data tab to learn about what each color means.
• Added: hostnames to the Raw Data view.
• Added: entry in the admin bar, to access your stats from anywhere.
• Updated: Browser Detection Database (Released: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 23:26:51 -0000).
• Updated: some code optimizations.
• Fixed: a bug in SlimStat Dashboard preventing some users from seeing the widgets.
• Fixed: layout improvements.
• Fixed: a bug with multisite environments and referrers.

What is new in version 2.4.2:

• Drag and drop WP Slimstat panels around.
• Customize the IP lookup service URL.
• Auto refresh the RAW Data panel every X seconds (Go to Settings > Slim Stat > Views to enable this feature).
• Updated spy view details now show search terms.
• Fixed a bug that affected downloads tracking.
• Geolocation updated to June 2011, 148393 rows.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3.3 or higher
• PHP 5.1 or higher
• MySQL 5.0.3 or higher
• 5MB of disk space and DB space