Traffic Monitor
Lightweight traffic logger for WordPress analytics. View, filter, and export page request data; monitor caching; detect bots; and spot click fraud.
5(3 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 5 months agoAs of April 2026, Traffic Monitor is a WordPress bot plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 5.2K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.2+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2025. Downloads are up 52% this week. Top alternative: Chatbot for WordPress by Collect.chat ⚡️.
5/53 reviews
1.0K+active installs
5.2K+total downloads
1 yearsince 2025
Overview
Traffic Monitor gives you full visibility into how people and bots are hitting your site.
Unlike bloated analytics and security plugins, Traffic Monitor focuses on logging raw request data that you control. You’ll know which pages are cached, which bots are visiting, where users are coming from, and how many requests are tied to each IP/browser combination.
Perfect for developers, marketers, and site owners who want fast insights—without handing over their traffic data.
What Makes It Different
- ✅ Logs requests for both cached and non-cached pages
- ✅ Lets you export raw traffic logs as raw CSV for your own analysis
- ✅ Identifies repeat ad clicks for spotting potential click fraud
- ✅ Reveals which bots are hitting your site, so you can block them elsewhere (example: Cloudflare)
- ✅ Tracks IP add…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Excellent!
by MG Mason·6 months ago·2 replies
I tried many plugins to log the hits on my sites that were experiencing high server loads, and this one is just what I was looking for. It is light weight, shows the data in sortable columns, has a lot of possible column views that you can choose to hide or show in the Screen Options. I like that I can see the IPs and the pages they hit and how often, such as the login, and other backend attempts. Blocking these in my .htaccess has cut my server load quite a bit. I also find the layout easier than my host server logs.
Version 3 is Awesome
by lorimartin·11 months ago
I had no idea how many bots were visiting my website until Traffic Monitor updated to version 3. Not only that, but I can actually track when people visit my site after clicking on a Google search ad. Pretty sweet for a free plugin!
Just a traffic log – as I needed
by anavrin79·1 year ago·2 replies
Around many plugins called “traffic logs, traffic monitor” – this one really logs traffic on website in a clear and simple way. And is free. Is simple as i was expected to be – a traffic log. Just like a access.log in apache – nothing more, nothing less.
Download Trends
Today: 17Yesterday: 11This week: 82Period total: 5K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 6.2+ requiredTested up to 6.8.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
52.2%
v3.2
45.8%
v1.0
2.0%
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Changelog
3.2.7 (2025-10-21)
- Guard session bootstrap to front-end only (no sessions on admin, REST, AJAX, cron, or WP-CLI) to resolve Site Health “Active PHP session” warning.
- Immediately release PHP session lock after hashing the session ID to prevent REST/loopback cURL 28 timeouts and late cron notices.
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