JoomlaWatch is popular joomla visitor tracking and live stats component. It provides several features such as spam blocking,
goals tracking, charts, nightly email reports, latest visit map, interactive HTML5 traffic flow graph and many other useful functionalities,
which will help you to optimize your site.
Tracking Expenses from SMS android application is now published on android market :) and it's completely free !
Brief description: This application creates an expense reports from SMS messages sent by your bank to your mobile phone. Ask about availability of such notification in your local bank. The principle is very simple - after each payment, you'll receive an SMS from your bank with debited amount. This information is then recorded in the database and evaluated in reports.
Basic functions: - Chart with daily expenses for all previous weeks which displays: * Number of expenses per day * Sum of expenses per day * Average daily expenses for current week * Average daily expenses for current month * You can navigation between weeks by sliding - The chart is being popped up each time there is the new SMS from your bank (so you can check the expenses chart immediately) - Expenses widget which you can place on your home screen so you don't have to search for the application every time - Import functionality (import all previous stored SMS) * Specify number from which the bank sent you the message * Specify the text of line which contains the debit amount (every bank has different text messages) - Works in vertical and horizontal mode on every screen resolution
Joomla CMS user plugin which protects all sensitive user data from being stolen by encrypting them on database level. So when someone finds a dump of your database, or creates this dump when hacking your website, all this information are unusable unless you have the correct key. This is very useful for websites having huge amount of registered users and don't want these sensitive information to be exposed. The encryption is more or less transparent, so all 3rd party extensions are allowed to read user tables via SQL queries or API without a problem.
Nearly 100,000 users with sensitive information in joomla database
Access the administration back-end of Joomla and it's components in one click from your android phone. You specify the basic settings on the start, then place it on your home screen to have the direct access to your favorite component. Configuration items: website url, admin folder name, username, password, name of the component to open and HTTP authentication (optional).
I started monitoring the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) performance of my website about one year ago with Google Analytics (GA) and after a while I found out that besides the amount of visits, traffic sources and basic stats, I was getting no idea of how people were interacting on my website and to be honest, about a year ago, I had no idea of what SEO was about besides using the right Keywords and Meta description.
One day I was curious about the time of the day and the days of the week people was visiting my website, so I tried to find that info on GA and I wasn't able to find it. I spent several weeks checking GA daily and exploring options and reports, they have lots of data but it was just data on separate pages. In fact, if I want to check how many visitors I had today, I would have to wait until 4:00 am or so since GA is really busy processing data for another trillion (probably) websites.
I thought there may be a Joomla extension so I Goggled and found JoomlaWatch, a real-time AJAX based Joomla Traffic Monitor. It does exactly that, with it, I was able to log in at any time of the day and watch, in almost real time (every 5 minutes rate, configurable), the same data I was getting with Google analytics, except that in real time and with a less fancy/corporate presentation. Â
On the first screen you can get a report of Country, IP, browser, OS, time and visited URL, followed by any other URL that was visited by the same IP. The report is for the last 2 days or so. It also separates visitors from suspected Bots, and gives you the same report on a separate section. I don't remember that on GA, I have looked for suspected bits on GA and if it is there, it is hard to find. Â On your right column, you have a bar chart and a more detailed text based traffic sources report.
On the second tab, a dynamic graphic is displayed for a variable number of pages, and a representation of the traffic flow for up to 5 levels, but, in my screen I could only easily understand the flow for 1 (0->1) levels, more levels would just make it a mess too hard to understand but it is still an option. It gives you a clue about where visitors go from the home page to other sections of your website.
The graphic is completely dynamic; you can adjust it live by just dragging the ends of the arrows to your desired position. It helps a bit on understanding the flow for 0+1 levels.
On The 3rd Tab, Graphs, you get a chart, similar to the one you get on GA, and you can filter different types of data with it: Referrers, Keywords, users (registered users), countries, browser, OS, etc.
The 4rt tab is for Goals but, with Goals you can specify special parameters. On this tab you do get a pretty good explanation of what a goal is and I rather quote it textually: "When these parameters match, the goal counter is increased. This way you can monitor whether the user has visited a specific URL, posted a specific value, has a specific username or came from a specific address. You can also block or redirect such users to some other URL." -- Joomla Watch.
You can create a goal or set a condition for even a POST var, so you can block or redirect requests from a given user when the requested URL contains an specific variable. Or block/redirect traffic from an specific country to let’s say a blocked page or a different website if needed.
It has an anti-spam system that I haven't tried because my site isn't too big and I don't get too much traffic. You are supposed to block visitors and bots that are looking for certain keywords.
You can set reports to be emailed nightly and filters for the data to be emailed.
I consider the following an extra feature: Since all data is stored to the DB, on the DB Status Tab, you get a report not only for JoomlaWatch's DB tables, but for all Joomla tables. It gives you the size and change rate on a 1, 7 and 30 days basis.
The last interesting tab is the Components Tab, it gives you an overview of the size of every installed component or module.
The rest of the tabs are the License and Credits Tabs.
After using stuff like Google Analytics or CoreMetrics, when it comes to Joomla, I would say JoomlaWatch may be not the most complete tracking system in the word but, it gave me more that what I expected to get with other tracking systems, and it was delivered effectively, the flow traffic was really easy to understand and manipulate. It is relatively free ($9), and it allows you to check your site in real-time, something you would never get with GA.
Here are the JoomlaWatch testimonials from extensions.joomla.org by our users:
Simply the Best!
bysregisters on April 25, 2011
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I've been working with this extension, both the free and the pro version, for about a year and a half now, on several sites. I doubt there's any commercial extensions that have the functionality this one does. And seeing how far it has come in such a short time, gives me confidence that the future is bright.
This extension is the only true stats component out there, in the the world of Joomla and perhaps closer to anyone outside Joomla. I simply love the thrill of its realtime reporting of visitors. One look and you can read the pattern of your site navigation by visitors which helps to enhance the site flow.
Just imagine, how much would you have to pay to have such an excellent component with akl the features it can offer?
How about ability to toggle block any malacious user's IP address or even annoying bots?
Or inbuilt ability to see Geo-location information of visitors?
Or the best support forum in the business?
Well, ok, so you have to subscribe to get "Prioritized support answers" with some extra features, get upgrades to the "pro" version. With that TOP notch support by developer, comes an ethical dealing experience i.e. if you are not happy with product for whatsoever reason, you get your full refund. How many of Joomla Extension providers really follow this priniciple, majority does not including "PaymentsPlus for Mosets" which I had terrible exrience with their support and its fancy but not userful in real world component, some aussie kid who really has very basic programming skills and limited logic, very dogmatic though. On the other hand, Matej, the developer is a Gem, he goes out of his way if needed to resolve any issue possible. He is awesome! I would recommend anyone to work with him for any Joomla Project which he is willing to take charge. Very reliable and trustworthy! Well, all the pro version has that he doesn't give away for free is the Last Visit Map, Interactive HTML5 Traffic Flow, Inversed Goals, Submitted GET/POST vars, 1/7/30-day DB Status, Component & Module sizes, Frontend logo removal, Frontend backlink removal, Prioritized support answers, Link from donation pagemonetizing compontent. The guy's gotta eat... he can't give it all away.
I was happy as a free user being able to access the forum at all, along with the documentation. I bought a subscription last year, and now am re-upping.
But you don't have to pay a dime to have a great, fully-functional stats component, using this software with features Live Stats, Graphs & Trends, Goals, Visits History, Anti-Spam, Nightly Email Reports.
I really can't say enough good about this extension. The support is excellent, the development is brisk, and I can't see using anything else for a Professional Stats component.
Owner's reply
Wow, thank you very much for such awesome positive feedback. There's more to come. I plan the new "flavor" - the keyword analysis feature so users can optimize his pages to increase traffic from search engines, bundled with android client which will allow you to access the joomlawatch component from your mobile phone
good job
byjean-loup on April 23, 2011
very good extension to learn about the visits on my site. I use the free version. thanks
Excellent extension
bykatrina7 on April 21, 2011
I used the non-commercial version for a long time, and wanted to upgrade to the most recent version of JoomlaWatch (for Joomla 1.5). The registration and upgrade process were really simple.
I had some issues with one of the features of JoomlaWatch after upgrading, but the support I received was great. The solution they sent me worked like a charm. :)
Great extension, great support.
Great Analytics Tool for Joomla
byAlSc on April 19, 2011
I am using Joomlawatch now for 2 years and its by far the best analytics tool out there.
Latest version was enriched with some nice features.
Installation is easy - I didnt have any problem.
Looking forward that a J1.6 version is realased that I can use it also on my new project :)
Highly recommendable!
NOT WORKING
byTex59dk on April 9, 2011
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Same review as wrote Pan-Palo-1
Version for Joomla 1.6 doesn't work, I bought a pro version, Bye Bye 9$ !
Many post on support and no reply !
Direct post to admin and no reply !
Very bad support.
Owner's reply
Oh guys, in the support section, there is clearly mentioned that you or anyone can open a dispute for any reason in paypal any time to get your money back. So please don't write here that you lost your money. I didn't see any dispute from you. I issue possible refunds immediatelly. The guy who wrote the previous review decided to keep the version, because it was a problem with incompatibility with Joomla 1.6 and he thinks it's an excellent product. I can forward it to you. This morning I withdrawn the version for j 1.6 so it's no longer available for download, you can also no longer see the blue tag joomla 1.6 here, until these problems will be resolved. Thank you for your understanding.
not work
byPan-Palo-1 on April 7, 2011
not work, loading stats, bad support, 9 Eur gone :D joomla 1.6
Owner's reply
Unlublished version for Joomla 1.6 until some bugs will be resolved, refunded the money for license.
This is the best
by252DbizzW-bizz on March 10, 2011
I love this component, no bugs, no problems and a quick overview on my visitors. It helps me improve metatags, adwords and gives a excellent overview which pages are visited.
sigmet98
bysigmet98 on February 18, 2011
Hello. I just installed your Pro Version Module for a friend on here site, it was very easy to install on 1.5.22 and everything worked perfect. I use another high end subscription to track my site, but I have to say yours is very very impressive. I might be changing soon. Excellent work guys, I have worked with a lot of Plug-ins and Modules I think this is one of the best ones.
love it
bycaloche on February 1, 2011
I did not expect such a good tool ! it will change my webmaster's behave thank you SO much for this extension
Long term user here
by40 on January 4, 2011
I have been using Joomlawatch for a couple of years already, it allows me many things, primarily to block unwanted users and users from certain countries, i can make a follow up of visitors, i can see which pages they most visit etc, etc, i have donated 9 euros due to my little pocket, but gladly i would have donate the dubble if i could. non of the others compare to this.
Very great extension
bymistercox on December 11, 2010
I tried a lot of statistics extensions but this is the most powerfull and complet I ever seen
Thanks a lot !
Perfect work and guide !!!
bydioJoomlas on December 6, 2010
Just EXCELLENT work and very good guide!!! Thank you very very much! Really perfect!
Amazing component horrible UI
bygubagy on December 1, 2010
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Pros Really great functionality component it is like your own google analytic even better it shows live data and so much more.Installs with two click and it does what it is said to do... and that is really a lot.
Cons The UI is giving me a brain hemorrhage. Really painful to look at. Cramming all available information on one page does not make you process it. On contrary it makes you ignore it or get lost in it. The reason that stopped me from giving the maximum.
To the developer/s: You are amazing programmer/s no doubts about it. BUT pleeeeez hire a (interaction)designer to do the UI for the component. No offense meant.
Cheerz
VERY GOOD !!!
byoyibo on November 26, 2010
the good news : it works like a charm on J! 1.5.22 the bad news : it is too addictive !
No problem at all. Very good job.
wonderful and useful
bydeserteagle on November 13, 2010
very good component, easy to install and use, install the component and agent module and visitor module, then enable each. It also can be displayed in frontend.
thank author for great job.
fantastic
bytinny77 on November 12, 2010
what a great component. had just a little issue after installation, cause i didn't chmodded properly the specified directories. once done, it works like a charm. you can follow every visitor, look at his route, look at the referrer sites in real time. fantastic component, I donated 9 euros after ten minutes I started using it. thank you guys
no corect data
bywdalen on November 6, 2010
The module is presenting incorrect data.
Conflicting info
bydigbydo on October 5, 2010
Left it installed for over 2 weeks and the information it was giving was total nonsense. Every day it reports differently to my server stats.
I then try it real time - I know visitors are there because I IRC them to test it. No sign of them - even tomorrow, yet they are in my server logs following day.
Will try something a bit easier to understand.
Owner's reply
Hi, this might be because you didn't have the correct timezone of your joomla system or user. If you didn't see any visitors, also in Live Stats module, you probably didn't have the essential joomlawatch agent installed and published in frontend. There is an installation video how to do that. Even though many people use this extension without issues like this one, I will try to make things even more clear and user-friendly in upcoming version.
Excellent!
byplaymedia on October 1, 2010
Fantastic component! Installed quick and worked right of out the box with no problems at all. I have web stats in Google Analytics and my hosting CPanel... but this is SO much easier, plus I can keep an eye on visitors and especially bots. This is something that should be put in core, in my opinion.
Oh yeah: It does display ads in the backend... but so what? Only admins see it and it's NO big deal!
Kudos to the developer. This is a truly great piece of work!
Very useful component
byallwarez on September 14, 2010
I was looking for an objective statistical module, and after trying several products I've stayed at JoomlaWatch. Great job! I wish you good luck from Czech Republic. :-)
Few annoying buus to fix
byajjosh on September 4, 2010
One is the time on the main page (it's off by a whole day)
Second is the ban feature, you should be able to see a list of all banned ip's and then a clean way to un-ban them. With these 2 items fixed, it's an excellent product.
Owner's reply
Well, the site was offline because of the 3rd party extension I installed a day ago. I noticed that today at approx. 11 AM. After uninstall, everything was back to normal. My apologies, it was really unpredictable. Regarding your second point: you can see the list of all banned IP's in Anti-spam tab. How do you imagine the better way to unban them? Thank you for any ideas.
Great Extension
byMaverell on September 2, 2010
I am impressed with Joomlawatch !
The information it produces, in real time, is better than watching TV. This is a must for any Joomla site admin who wants to know what is happening on their site.
Worked straight out of the zip archive :)
Very usefull tool
byPanagioths on August 4, 2010
I use it in 5 of my joomla sites. Very helpfull. Thanks a lot!
Must Have Product!
byCeeGee45 on July 14, 2010
This one of the few must have products for any site you create! Real time data and spam help that truly works. Just clicking the spam filter dropped my issues almost 100%!
The only reason and probably the only down side to the product is the extremely slow tech support. I do understand, there is a pay version for faster support. It you dont pay, you might not see help for a pretty long time. The good thing is, that once it's working, it WORKS!
Must Have!
bygastrohost on July 8, 2010
This Component is a must-have for every website based on Joomla! The actual Version helps also preventig SPAM-Attacks over POST-Froms. Great Job!
JoomlaWatch
by252Df1e-f1 on June 30, 2010
Excellent job. Easy to install and use.
Thank for great component
bytouk on June 23, 2010
All my web. i install joomlawatch for watch every person came to my web, for Optimize my SEO.
thank you mann.
Pretty nice
byakamcf on June 23, 2010
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
works pretty nicely, don't mind the ads either but having the icon on every page of my site just doesn't fit. can be hiden all right but then you have to pay so... won't keep it. Great tool but not for my needs.
Excellent live stats!
byvballnut on June 6, 2010
I had been using whos.amung.us on my old non-Joomla site and it was always nice to see live stats. JoomlaWatch blows that out of the water with so many stat options to view... very impressive. Thanks!
Not non-commercial
byTriblade on May 31, 2010
Their website states: "The download link will appear here then. To deactivate the ads in your version - use the donate buttons below (if available)."
So, if you don't pay there are ads... Thats COMMERCIAL!!
Owner's reply
you are right, I've changed it to Commercial and added this section to description to make it more clear for users:
> 2 flavors available: or 9 EUR / 15 EUR (+ prioritized when answering support questions, link on donation page) (optional)
Marina
bymarina_d on May 31, 2010
Hi everybody, Convenient and easy to use
Thank You for making JoomlaWatch
As advertised!
byswgaspar on May 25, 2010
Works very well. Easy to install and use.
One of the Best Joomla extensions ever
bywebdesignnet on May 24, 2010
Hi everybody,
This has been a sin from my side not to review this great extemsion as have been using it already for a long time and almost on every joomla site created by me.
From my experience - It works on all the templates, without any crashes, outstands all the site traffic components and modules and even more - it is free...
Thank You for making JoomlaWatch
p.s. and when you want to impress the clients ;) go for this one - always works for me :)
p.p.s. and it definately works on 1.5 Joomla!!! (somebody had this concern) - haven't had a single problem
Great extension BUT.....
byshanepowys on May 15, 2010
I have used this extension with J 1.0.x but it will not work in J 1.5 It is disappointing as it is a great extension and the support is absolutely terrible. Sent numerous emails asking for a solution and the response was "Does not work in 1.5" What a shame.
Owner's reply
Hello Shane, I've replied to you this morning about the known problem that settings does not load only in google chrome browser and I'm trying to find a solution. Actually google chrome is the only browser which has some problem in javascript while loading the settings.
This extension comes with no warranty and no support what is clearly stated on download page and in extension itself. Currently I'm busy with bugfixes and development of new features for new refactored version 1.2.11 - such as History, updated geolocation database, database status, keyphrases statistics, extended spam word list, etc. I wish I'd have more time to respond to all questions from all users, but I have another full-time job. Also today - It's saturday, and instead of relaxing I'm sitting in front of pc.
Will not work in J 1.5? There is a demo server www.joomlawatchdemo.com/dev/ where is Joomla 1.5 installed and everyone can see that it works and try it.
Regards,
Matej Koval www.codegravity.com
What an awesome extension
byhakos3d on April 27, 2010
Simply super awesome stats extension. Very easy to install and very easy to use. Good one for every novice to expert. Thanks guys!
having problems with stats
byagathic on April 26, 2010
I used this extension before and it warked just like I expected, was great. my site was hacked and database was corrupted, I had to rebuild it from scratch, I installed this extension again, exactly as I did before, but I am having a problem that I can not understand.
The stats shows only one person logged in, even if there are 50 more persons, it only shows me, the adminstrator. it does not show my activities on the site like moving from one page to another as it used to do before.it keeps my IP address but no one else. and when I sign in the following day, it does not change the date or activity.
can any one help, or suggest a sotlution.
I left several emails on the authers homepage, with no response.
thanks
Owner's reply
Hello agathic, I hope your hack was not related to JoomlaWatch. It has several protection against sql injection etc. The reason why I have overlooked it is that it was posted into the forum and not as a bug report (as strongly suggested in forum). From there it's easier to track the whole process. I'm going to make some time to work on new features so I hope I could also take a look at your problem.
Best Regards,
Matej Koval
THANK YOU!! JoomlaWatch is Spectacular!
bySplitSecond on March 21, 2010
Just wanted to say a few words about JoomlaWatch: It's spectacular, fantastic, phenomenal, stellar, stunning, amazing, superb, superior, incredible, awesome, mind boggling, imaginative, out of sight, phantasmagorical, astonishing, astounding, dazzling, eye-catching, fabulous, grand, magnificent, marvelous, miraculous, razzle-dazzly, remarkable, sensational, splendid, and wonderous. That said - it's great!
Thank you, Publisher
This is great
bysalvatruco on March 13, 2010
this is a great extension.
Joomla watch
byannaiovine on March 8, 2010
First review I feel I need to write: It is a "scary" application that tells you who is reading you, from where how long in real time. It is impressive and scares me how many are reading my articles. THANKS.
Ingore the Next negative review
byAskiKa on February 18, 2010
Joomlawatch works 100% fine, the guy obviously did do something totally wrong (like lockout his site because he put the module on registered only or something...
I've been online for the last 15 years and joomlawatch is the only 100% free inbound search results tracking software I care to use...
all webmasters that use this software know it's ability to make them MILLIONS MORE DOLLARS PER YEAR through "analytics"...
A MUST HAVE, EVERYONE VOTE CODEGRAVITY UP... THEY DESERVE IT...
General "AskiKa".
Great Extension but...
bycfaulds on February 9, 2010
How do i change the CHMOD?
I do not have an ftp program, nor do i have 'total commander' - or whatever it is..
Can you give me some step by step instructions on how to solve it. i can download programs such as an ftp client.
i tried contacting support but no help there :/
P.S. i give it 5 stars because a friend has it and its awesome!
Works great, but make sure you Server has memory!
bymarkxcool on January 29, 2010
5 out of 5 for being easy to install and use.
The only issue I had was that my hosting service (DreamHost) didn't allow for much memory and JoomlaWatch demands a lot.... so for several months I was getting "Internal Server Error" messages, sometimes many times a day, other times not.
It was that my Hosting had a program that aborted anything that was causing server memory overload (to cuase the server to crash) and hence my problem.
So this isn't necessarily an issue with this extension, but rather my hosting.
Was great until it locked my website...
bybrichardson2001 on January 23, 2010
This extension was working great - I tried it on one website I host. Suddenly this morning, the client emails me to tell me that his website is prompting him for a login.
I wasn't sure what was going on - directory security hadn't changed. So I copied the Joomla site to another directory and pointed the website mapping there. Same issue! Even using my base domain and calling the website as a subdirectory, I had the same issue. So... since JoomlaWatch had been the last thing I had installed - I deleted it from the directory.
And suddenly... everything started working again. This extension was PROMPTING the user to login when they visited the website! Needless to say, I won't come anywhere near this extension again!
Owner's reply
Hello B. Richardson, Joomlawatch would never intentionally ask user to login. You can examine the source code, which is freely available. I wonder what triggered this unexpected behaviour. Maybe you've set that it's module is available for registered users only and not everyone. I would ask you to fill a bug report (http://www.codegravity.com/bug/) with all possible details. It would be great if you could also try to reproduce this once again. I'm sorry what happened to you and don't expect that you'll change your attitude, but this might help other users from experiencing this later on. Thank you.
Matej Koval
Nothing else comes close
byCav3man08 on December 30, 2009
This application is simply awesome and (can you believe it?) non-commercial. It's perfect. I needed an app which would track user I.P.s in real time and allow me to blacklist those I.P.s if necessary. JoomlaWatch does all this and a whole lot more. I have looked high and low and I can honestly tell you this is the most powerful stats and user tracking application on the planet for Joomla CMS. It's spectacular. And for that they get not only five stars, but they get my donation ta boot. Great Job Code Gravity Team! Worked right out of the box. No muss; no fuss. Just a high quality application. Cheers!
Flippin Sweet!
byosmosisinc on December 19, 2009
This thing helps me obsess over visitors on a plane which I thought would be maniacal.
Tools for the obsessive. Observe the users down to the Nth degree. I love it. Easy to install and use too! The Backup might suck, but I think maybe it's worth it.
Great extension but...
bySharonon on December 16, 2009
Counting of members/guest online is not realistic. Looks like it registrates one quest for each click on the site.
Owner's reply
This members/guest online counting is the native part of Joomla CMS itself. JoomlaWatch just uses that module. There is no way how can we influence it.
This is a serious tracking extension
byajoshi on December 15, 2009
This extension is way better than some commercial extensions and hosted services. I am still srting to figure out the week and day offsets. Any help would be appreciated.
Owner's reply
Thank you. I'm trying to solve this problem too, but unfortunately, cannot reproduce it since codegravity.com's server is not experiencing it. The server obviously has to be in different timezone. If you want to contribute to solving this issue, please contact me using the email which appears at the codegravity.com's website.
Good but ...
bysnooky147 on November 3, 2009
Very complete (too much) and usefull component, just one think to critickise, this take too much on database and when I wanted backup my db with SQL request, I had problem with and I needed to backup it in twice, maybe my host is not so good ?! Also, it required to publish on frontend some modules to make it work and if you don't want them appear on your site, you can't make it work !!
Work just fine
byMilanT on October 16, 2009
JoomlaWatch works just fine. Easy to install and ready in minutes. Publish a small module and component immediately start to display statistic in realtime. I just use it in back end but front module looks and works just fine too.
Very Useful, Indisposable Tool
byDelliana on October 16, 2009
I cannot express how grateful I am for this component, Thank you so much~! I can easily see my users' Ip's, and everyone who visits my site is tracked.
handsome
byBernhardL on October 13, 2009
Won't use ganalytics because of legal problems in Germany. Also don't either need these overwhelming featurits. Therefore was lucky to find JoomlaWatch. Was easy to install. Has no speed issues in my system. Sends obviously reasonable figures.
Awesome extension!
byMizex on October 13, 2009
This is an extremely useful extension. I love that it keeps track of the stats in real-time. I have been using it for about a day now and it's great. I recommend it to anyone that would like to keeps track of what each visitor is doing on your site.
Thumbs up to the JoomlaWatch dev team!
Great extension
byrobertoazrael on September 19, 2009
Great and very useful tool, I'm really happy. But sorry if I'm too novice, I installed in one site and perfect, in that site I allow user registrating, and I installed in another one similiar to the first site, but when I publish agent-module then registered users can´t login, always say "session timeout, re-sign". Anyway it is a wondeful package, thank you
How did I ever manage without JoomlaWatch?!
byformfranska on August 11, 2009
Fantastic! Installation and configuration was clear and easy.
com_joomlawatch and mod_joomlawatch_agent has to be installed. The other mods are optional.
The back-end component is function rich and is highly configurable.
JoomlaWatch is superior to any other similar app that I know of :-)
It's a battle shield!
byCherriCMD on August 5, 2009
JoomlaWatch is AWESOME! It provided much needed assistance in fighting off bots that were creating a nightmare for me on my web site. Easy to install, easy instructions for installing, and it gives LOADS of information and tools to help protect your site. FIVE stars! Thank You for a great extension!
Very Good
byjodofin on July 31, 2009
Excellent. Installation was straightforward and very easy to configure.
There are Front-end modules which are basically optional except for the main data gathering agent which can be made to take up no space.
The back-end component is function rich and is highly configurable.
Top marks.
Outstanding
byNibblers on July 29, 2009
A must have. Simple to install and easy to use - as long as you remember to publish the agent on ALL pages! Don't worry you can set the image size to 1px/1px and place the mod in the footer.
Delivers a fantastic array of live and interesting information about the behaviour of visitors and users of your site.
Great work! - I'll be pleased to make a donation
Ugly modules
byundercash on July 28, 2009
The component seems very reliable. Install like a charm,good live statistiques.
however I am trying to build a nicely looking website. Do I want these modules to appears to anyone? No. It looks bad, takes load of space, and provoke suspicion to novice internet users. So basically for me this component is useless since he can't work without front end module.
BRILLIANT!
bykthackston on July 27, 2009
Wow, wow, wow. So easy to install and be the end of the day I got proof positive that my SEO is working for me.
I LOVE that you can see in real time who is looking at your site, where they are going and when they leave. I love that you can tell who brought them there, the search path, phrase etc after following their original link into your site.
This is a brilliant piece of code!
Awesome mod
byTikkiRo on July 15, 2009
Takes a lot to impress me to the point of paying towards a (free) mod, but this one was worth every penny of the donation I provided. It was so easy to install, and easy to understand the instructions on what to do, as well as configuration. The real-time stats are a blast, and while I've only just started with it, I really look forward to seeing its full potential. Haven't found a downside yet, but don't expect to, given the wealth of other excellent reviews on here. Trust them if you want a solid stats mod - they're right in what they say - it's one of, if not, THE best around!!
Good Component
bymarcosquis on July 14, 2009
Is a Good Component!! Con un poco mas de tiempo y mejoras en lo que a lenguaje y configuración refiere, no tendrá competencia!!
Excellent extension!!!
byanalustia on July 12, 2009
This is one of the best extensions we can find. Unfortunately it does not work on our web www.uncli.org inspite of the fact that we reseived from Matej great support, whichexcellent as well, but until today we did not find the reason for the problem! But any how it works on all our other webs and is something outstanding! Congratulation Matej!
Nice Tool
by252Dfreeo-free on July 10, 2009
New to Joomla and used this tool and I find it easy to configure and easy to use. Reports at the back-end are quite accurate. Just don't get this:"155 We have guests online 10.07.2009 04:25:35 . What is 155?
The ultimate tool
by252DHobbywareC-Hobbyware on July 9, 2009
Wow that tool is more need that we expected
I have to thank the developers to that great work. I have kicked of al other tools from my several Joomla pages and use only joomwatch.
This tool helps us really in providing support to our costumer. We can see in real-time how is online and where the are, from the known registered. But also, how uses witch browser witch pages get be read the most and has to be maybe optimised. We can give support on the phone then we know where they are, then we can just look it up.
Great Thanks The RC-Hobbyware Team
Worth Installing
bybizguy on July 7, 2009
This component/module/plugin installs and operates without issue. The menu system, as well as module parameters are unusually configured, however once you understand how to configure it, it provides a wealth of information about your site visitors' activity. A definite must have component. Thank you!
Wonderful Module..!
byauga72 on July 3, 2009
I never knew there is a tool as this to watch live while people accessing your website; what they browse and from where they accessed your site ect.
But one day while I was working on my Joomla site, I just thought that it would be handy if you have a tool as above and decided to search.
I just couldn’t believe my eyes what I saw. I just downloaded JoomlaWatch and installed it.
Guys, I can bet none of you will be disappointed and you will surely donate toward this project.
One of the top-class extensions I found here.
Just a little doubt; I am not sure how an extension becomes an Editor’s pack or Popular one in the site..! However, my doubt is: how-come “JoomlaWatch” is not an “Editor’s pack or Popular one” Is there anything better than “JoomlaWatch” for checking the stats?
I would give 10 / 10, but I was allowed only 5/5. Excellent work guys. You surely deserve a donation..!
Simply amazing!
byr4wmunt34q on June 23, 2009
I am amazed by this component+module. What else to say, it took my breath away! ;o)
Cheers from Slovakia ;)
THANK YOU
bytelazorn on June 16, 2009
This is with out a doubt the best extinction i have installed on my site as soon as i get the cash i would not have a problem giving a good donation.
Amazing Extension!
byFusion on June 9, 2009
I love this extension! Kudos to the developer for making such a great product. I am a start-up web developer and without great tools like this, I wouldn't be able to make it. This is the first review I've made. I was just looking over some stats on a client's web site and just had to take a minute to publicly thank the developer for such a great and useful product.
Download this NOW!!
byccaron on June 3, 2009
This is by far the most useful extension available for Joomla! I purchased the non-ad supported version and would have gladly paid 10 times that amount.
almost perfect!!!
byvasx on May 27, 2009
installation, settings & using are completely perfect. only one thing is not good, agent not work when i put him on bottom template position :( excellent work!!! thank you very much!!!
Incredible but truth
byLubos on May 11, 2009
IMHO this is a mandatory install for Joomla! webmasters.
Easy to install, excellent documentation.
You can set your goals (visiting certain page, visitors from certain link etc.)
You can control flow on your web....
There were other reviews with better description, all what I can say is: Just download and install. You will not be disappointed!
One advice: Before you will use spam protection, go and check all protected words. I was kicked out of my own web, because I used word 'online' ;-) (quite hard to avoid if your web is aimed on people starting online business). After I deleted -online from spamlist, all was working perfectly.
Donated already and keep good work developers!
Owner's reply
Thank you, I'm glad that you are satisfied. You are right, there was a word "-online", I've removed it to avoid such situations. There are also new translations available: czech, danish, lithuanian and polish.
5 stars from me
bytrantelo on May 4, 2009
A brilliant and usefull extension, works smooth and makes the job very easy, especialy for those who dont want (or dont know how) to use the hosting panel each time they want to see statistics. Thank you!
Excellent
byGuriarte on April 30, 2009
This is one of the few extensions that can truly be rated excellent. It comes with a clear installation instructions file, it works, and it's free. What else can you ask for?
Thank you!
Great job !
bydnesic on April 17, 2009
Extremely useful component to monitor activities. Great job! TNX.
Greate Tool to have for FREE
byStreemL on April 7, 2009
It may not look the best, but does the job and best part is that its FREE. Doesn't got fancy graphs, fancy reports or graphics like ninja clicky or stalystics2, but again its FREE. Hope new updates come with those features. Thanks alot
nice extension but...
byjazzbird on March 30, 2009
I like joomlawatch but it seems to have two major flaws. First, it completely misidentifies country locations. For example, I am now in Italy but according to joomlawatch I am in Spain. And I have a friend visiting my site in Germany but according to joomlawatch she is in the U.S. So I cannot trust it at all when looking at visitor countries. Second, I can't seem to set the number of visible visitors on the backend. For example now I set it to 50 but I can only see some 15 or so.
Thank You, Matej!
by2Ealfonsc.alfons on March 30, 2009
This is a very, very useful script. I don't know, how much time I wasted in the last years, to kick spammers off. With JoomlaWatch this is no problem, one klick and the evil spammer stands in front of a closed door.
Adjust settings
bybassman on March 20, 2009
Thanks for a excellent component. I suppose I´m not the only one who has been migrating from 1.0 to 1.5 Therefore it would be nice if it could be possibly to add the number of visitors from "before"
Excellent Component
byjoomlawiz on March 5, 2009
I needed something to see user ip's on all that are logged on my site that I could monitor in the admin backend. This does that plus a whole lot more. This should be built into joomla. Wouldn't run another site without this.
One of the best extensions out there
byTheKoelnKalk on February 28, 2009
helped me a lot finding out several issues on my page and the best is, you can track down if your page strategies are good or not (guess having logical click paths).
Other than the ads, its nice
bypacificwalter on February 25, 2009
8 euros doesn't sound like much to have the ads removed, but its still annoying.
A nice extension, but I'll save 5 stars for developers who really are sharing their work.
Owner's reply
Hello "pacificwalter", ok, it's your opinion, so I'm respecting it. But you know, it's hard to have everyday programming job, and then after you are tired of all the work duties, to reply the support emails and to fix bugs, develop the new requested features - everything during remaining spare time and weekends. And yes, share it with the community without anything in return. This concept is nice, but it won't pay your web hosting expenses or won't buy you a coffee. These ads are some compromise, I'm not making millions out of it. It's intention is more like to cover the "costs". The code is GNU/GPL, so you can still remove the ads by yourself. Thank you for your understanding, and I'm glad that most people are fine with this model. I want to release the new stable version with all the new features and translations. I hope it will be very soon :)
JoomlaWatch is a must-have
bysozzled on February 14, 2009
This is the first time I've submitted a review about *any* Joomla extension but, after having used Joomlawatch 1.2.7 for a few days, I was so impressed by its excellence that I had to write something.
I was looking for a tool that provided basic defences against spamming/hacking but this tool also provides a good degree of web analytic capability. If future enhancements are as good as the current version, we'll all be safer, wiser and better off. Thanks.
JoomlaWatch is THE BEST
byBBOULEY48 on February 2, 2009
This is one of the best extensions I have ever used. It does everything it says it will do an more. It is totally awesome to watch in real time the people hitting your site. Highly recommended a must have.
Simply best plug-in ever.
byjeejeestudio on January 17, 2009
Use the dev version 1.2.8 works great. Now i could block a bot wich was hitting my site every minute for a whole day. I can see how people found my site and what words they used to find it. really really great!
Best plug-in so far!
Very nice
bymathetes on December 11, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
This installed easily and runs perfectly for me. It does all I wanted and more, and in a very attractive format.
Good Component but HORRIBLE Module and Support
byBusinessExpert on December 7, 2008
First of all to download this thing you have to register with your email to a meaningless website and confirm your email and agree to an obscure terms and conditions contract.
The component's idea is good, and I am surprised that there aren't more components like this. But the module that goes with this is HORRIBLE!
It usurpes 1/4 of your webpage with a link to this guy's website. It shows a stupid list of countries where each and every one of your visitors came from, as if any one cares. It has a HUGE space for showing some useless traffic stats to your Visitors, as if you want every one of your visiotrs to see all that data, what is the point?
As I said good idea, terrible implementation. As soon as someone else makes a similar component this will dies out in minutes!
Tremendous
byStuff4Toys on September 11, 2008
0 of 2 people found this review helpful
I used 1.2.6 and thought that was great, 1.2.7 it incredible. Installed and configured perfectly. The new version and the MODULE is GREAT. Backend ads are OK as long as they don't get offensive. I will click on them everyday as long as the dev team is getting $$$ for them. Only thing I would like to see added right now is Bot ID below the ip address like the user ID below the users ip. (ie: google, yahoo, shopwiki, live, etc)
Superb!
byScotty_ on September 10, 2008
0 of 2 people found this review helpful
I've been using 1.2.6 for a while with no problems but the new features in 1.2.7 are terrific. Very easy to install and very easy to use. Zero problems.
Happy to donate and would be happy to pay if it were commercial.
Upgrade to newest version
bydjdubuque on September 4, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
I'm using JoomlaWatch 1.2.7b which has better functions and data output. I highly recommend this extension.
A Must Have Com!
byminzin on August 20, 2008
0 of 2 people found this review helpful
I would buy this ext. if it is a commercial. 4 Thumbs up!
Tested in action!
by7PDarkman on August 18, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Hello, friends,
Excellent extension, thanks to her could identify possible attackers on my site, and prevent any new share them. Congratulations for the beautiful service!
See my Forum post: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=432&t=317209
Great Extension!
byburgundy on August 18, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
This was by far one of the easiest extensions to get up and running that I've tried for Joomla! I didn't even have to tinker with it. Does exactly what it says and is a great way to see what your visitors are doing on your site. I highly recommend it.
really great extension for joomla
byStevieC on August 15, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
'Does what it says on the tin!'
and does it well. Seems to be working well in 1.5 for me at the mo.
As for complaining about a couple of ads. They're backend for a start and don't get in the way in the slightest. I have absolutely no problem with that at all.
One of the best extensions for joomla about!
Great work
bynikko500 on August 11, 2008
0 of 3 people found this review helpful
Does what it says on the tin!
Nice but...
byalaoa on August 10, 2008
2 of 4 people found this review helpful
This is a good component to use however i do think it's a little bad that they put ads in the backend. but you can remove the iframe in the backend and the icon in the front if you know basic html. I provide donations to the free extensions i use however i don't like the fact that they try and use ads to generate revenue. I think this is not in the spirit of open source
finaly a good stats component for 1.5, but...
by2Emarijkes.marijke on July 7, 2008
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
While I like the stats bit of it very much I was not pleased with 1. the frontend icon and 2. the google ads in the backend.
1. Even when the icon is hidden it still takes space (in IE, not in FF) and I don't have any in my design. 2. The google ads are projected in an iframe comming from codegravity. I think this is right on the edge of acceptable. The corporate clients I work with are not happy with google ads in their admin.
The professionalism I hope to show my clients is under pressure with these two points. I wish the developers would have given people a choice in these matters. But as I havent found another good stats component I am almost forced to use this one.
Very nice
bymrjoomla on July 4, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
I was using google analytics but my account kept 'losing' my site. Decided to use a self contained module and chose this one. Its light and simple after installing both module and component all I had to do was re-position the small image on my front page. Would be good if you could choose a different logo or text to replace the original pic. Apart from that no problems!
Hats off to the author! :)
Too easy
bywebrevs on June 23, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Excellent component. Installed on 1.5.3 and worked straight out the box!
Works fine "out of the box"
byMindvacant on May 22, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
I installed this component a while ago and it's "performing as advertised". It takes a little "tweak" here and there to get it setup to one's liking, but it works fine "out of the box".
Thanks
A must have component
bydaobydesign on May 1, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
This component is a fantastic way to watch what your site visitors are doing in real-time. Aside from the obvious tracking and stat collection benefits, it's just darn cool to see who's looking at what, and where they're from.
Installed and working fine right out of the box on J!1.5.2. Kudos to the developer.
Does not slow down page load like Google analytics
byRade on April 6, 2008
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
This statistics component works wonderful with joomla 1.5 Very nice admin backend graphics and layout which enables good insight in several stats within seconds, precise robots tracking, do not slow down page load like Google analytics. If in future it will have information from which pages visitors are coming, it would be definitely in top 3 joomla stats all the time.
Great extension
bylane751969 on April 5, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Works right out of the box, and very easy to install - great documentation. Works great for 1.5. Thank you for sharing your work!
Better then Joomlastatus
byinnovatorz on March 22, 2008
0 of 2 people found this review helpful
All i want to say this is best Joomla component if you want to track your visitors data. Much better then Joomlastatus. Remember to purge database weekly if you have lot's of visitors or switch to a Dedicated web host. Do not blame the component.
Owner's reply
Hi, you can use JOOMLAWATCH_STATS_KEEP_DAYS setting for that.
Still needs alot of work
bydcurtis1 on March 21, 2008
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Iknow, I know, I did read all about it first and saw that there were issues with the program for 1.5 before I installed it. As usual, I figured I would be one of the lucky ones that it worked for.
Unfortunatly, I wasn't!!
It installed fine with on problems and I did make sure that Legacy was enabled before the install. As I said, it installed fine and then I went to configure the module and BOOM... "big blank white screen". Loaded the frontpage of the website BOOM.. "Big blank white screen"
Disabled the module and the website came back up then I uninstalled it!
I'll keep checking back for a stable version. Looks like a great product in the Demo.
Owner's reply
Hi, I'm really sorry, what happened. Many registered users downloaded 1.2.4 and no-one complained about anything, so I announced it here. One user unfortunatelly asked me to change the retrieving of the live site with &cmsInstance('CMSCore') which worked for him, but not the rest of the users.
I't is net compatible with 1.5.
bydecrypt on March 19, 2008
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I't is net compatible with 1.5. Only on legacy-mode.
Great component for instant information regarding your visitors
bypiccaros on March 18, 2008
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
This component works great and allow to know everything you want to know about your visitors or the bots that are visiting your site.
Have installed on two configuration, one worked very well, the second installation has crashed the site and I had to remove it straight after.
So use it with caution, if you have a blank page at the end of the installation process, that means you'll maybe have the same issue as I had when installing the module. I installed it on the home page and every other module just did not show - left or right column was the same.
Both configurations were 1.x Maybe the creator of the component has got more info to add in here.
Piccaros www.blogynet.com
Owner's reply
Hi, thank you. Yes, you are right, some installations might crash, but mostly because the user didn't meet the requirements. They have to have at least 20MB of free space because of the big database table for ip->country resolving or permissions. And many systems are very specific, so it's hard for me to find out why did it crash. If such a situation occurs, I will appreciate a bug report or a solution. 18.3.2008 I replaced the JoomlaWatch-1.2.4-unzipfirst.zip with the one with some minor fixes, so you may try to re-download the way you did and re-install. Thanks to the whole Joomla community and many user suggestions that helped to make this component better with every version.
I like... :)
bygventer on March 18, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Not only do I like the component a lot, but the best part for me is the blocking of the irritation spam bots. I immediately identified the harmful bots and could easily block their whole ip range.
I will see if it completely stop them. If it does, this will be one of the best components.
I tried it on one and immediately implemented it on my other sites.
Nice work
Awesome
bynathan_madness on February 15, 2008
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Totally agree with every other post awesome totally awesome. When can we expect a version to run on 1.5?
Very nice
byamorosso on January 20, 2008
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
Very easy to install. Even easier to use. A must have if you like to see whats being viewed on your site in real time. I love it. Why are you still reading this, GO GET IT.
Wow. Very Good.
byFidelGonzales on January 15, 2008
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Installed the component and module quickly and easily. The module must remain published upon all pages in order for comprehensive tracking to take place. I'm not a fan of the 16px X 16px icon the module produces, since it is intrusive, but I'm sure that can be dealt with in a number of ways, including by replacement of a blank. For now, I opted to publish in the debug module location so that it is out of the way. Immediately upon publishing the module, the stats began rolling in. The use of AJAX indeed allows for the page to populate in real-time before your very eyes. The site I'm testing it on generates approximately 35,000-40,000 unique visitors per month for over 500,000 page views. Joomlastats has been used several times because of its ease of use - minus a few bugs. But Joomlastats quickly generates a massive database and cannot be used because of this. While I'm sure Joomlawatch will also produce a large database, I'm anxious to see just how large that database will become when compared to Joomlastats. Either way, Joomlawatch appears far better because it installs easily and it uses AJAX. Some more time will tell whether its layout will work better than that of other options, including Joomlastats. It's unfortunate Joomla Extensions does not allow for multiple reviews from the same member.
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I was really awed and amazed at what this component can do. Works right after installation. This is the best stat component for Joomla.
After the upgrade to Joomla 1.5, I've installed the JoomlaComment component. This component was a replacement for the AkoComment for Joomla 1.0.
But after serveral days, I've realized that my site got spammed, even though this JoomlaComponent uses the CAPTCHA protection. The spambots somehow bypass this protection. I've created a modification to this JoomlaComment component, which uses the MathGuard protection against spam bots. This class I've used also with the AkoComment component.
The advantage of MathGuard class is, that it's not so much wide-spread, and therefore, not many bots have mechanisms to bypass this kind of CAPTCHA.
JoomlaWatch is an AJAX component and module for Joomla CMS that allows you to watch your Joomla visitors and bots in real-time from the administration menu. Specially their IP addresses, countries they come from, which pages they are viewing, their browser and operating system, it creates daily and all-time stats from these information plus unique, pageload and total hits statistics. Furthermore, you can block harmful IP addresses and see blocked attempts stats.
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Features
Free
PRO: 9 EUR
PRO: 15 EUR
Live Stats
Graphs & Trends
Goals
Visits History
Anti-Spam
Nightly Email Reports
Last Visit Interactive Map
Interactive HTML5 Traffic Flow
Inversed Goals
Submitted GET/POST vars
1/7/30-day DB Status
Component & Module sizes
SEO Report with Keyphrases
Auto-update functionality
Security audited code
Free updates
Frontend logo removal
Frontend backlink removal
Lifetime license for your domain
30-day money back guarantee
One-touch access from Android
Complete translations:
Nofollow link from sponsors page
Features
Free
PRO: 9 EUR
PRO: 15 EUR
* Free version = JoomlaWatch 1.2.12, PRO version = JoomlaWatch 1.2.17
Displays the location of your latest joomla visitors. You can zoom in / out, pan, displays multiple latest visitors. Updates every time there is a new visit. This is really fun to watch that your website is being visited from many different places around the world.
URL Parameters
URL parameters allow you to see submitted values. This way you can distinguish between different actions on the same URL. For example: you can monitor when the joomla visitor submits a form. (You can see that he visited url: /component/myshop/submit/ and HTTP POST variable named action contains value add_to_cart. You can easily create a goal, which represents this "add to cart" action. This goal is then being monitored and you can see it's values in live stats, graphs and nightly email reports)
Traffic Flow
This cool feature uses HTML5. There is no flash needed, just the latest browser. It displays interactive graph of most common joomla visitor paths. First, you select starting page from the combo box. Then, the screen redraws itself and displays the selected page in the center of the diagram. From this center there are different arrows in different color of rainbow scale (violet = min, red = max). This way you can see that from your page - only 30% of joomla visitors visit page1 and 10% visitors visit page2. This is very useful for conversion tracking. You can drag each node and customize the nesting level and number of outgoing links. Below the graph there are the same information but in static way.
Database Table Sizes
This feature displays all database tables of your joomla installation. Normally, it's hard to monitor how much data each component stores in your db, but not with this functionality. It displays name of the table, size in database, 1-day, 7-day and 30-day change in percents. This way you can see for example that the data of registered users grows by 2% every day.
Components & Modules sizes monitoring
Quite similar to db sizes, but it displays the directory sizes of components and modules. Some components / modules store data on disk rather than in db. The functionality remembers the last check and compares the values so you can see the difference. There is also a date of last check displayed.
22.06.2010 - News in JoomlaWatch 1.2.12: - graphs from all items on one page (goals, referers, keyphrases, pages, etc.) - updated greek translation - other small fixes
26.05.2010 - News in JoomlaWatch 1.2.12:
- Complete refactoring of code - Email reports with values, percentage 1-day, 7-day, 30-day changes with settings - History of joomla visits (you can view and analyze user behavior from previous days) - New geolocation database - Keyphrases monitoring - Add as goal directly from visits - Database status - you can see how much data JoomlaWatch occupies - Extracted Keywords right next to Came from URL - Keep data setting on uninstall (useful when doing an upgrade) - Timezone setting taken directly from Joomla global server settings - Information about blocked spam attempts per day/total - AJAX updates traffic information - layout changes for email reports, antispam - i18n, now you can use all languages (new messages are not translated yet, but are mixed with the original ones - you can help) - Hide repetitive titles, show only last URI for each visitor occupies - better bug report/feature request handling (using JoomlaBug) - many other bugfixes and small features
JoomlaWatch
News in this version: - translations: brazilian portuguese, dutch, french, german, greek, russian, slovak, slovenian, spanish, swedish - multi-page settings in tabs - internal referrers - anti-spam: blocks IPs based on a customizable list of bad words - protection against spam bots and automatic form submitters - frontend user module to show the most active visitors for current day - optional frontend user link to a user detail (eg. fireboard, community builder) - exclude particular users from stats in settings - country as a new parameter in goals - upper/lower case character of countries in frontend - joomla live site setting in config.php - refactored classes - starting frontend value of "total:" in settings - "add as goal" link from statistics
(13.01.2009): New features : - fixed the problem with loading visits... loading stats..
(11.01.2009): New features : - splitted the mod_joomlawatch into mod_joomlawatch_agent (which records all of the visits, and has to be published on all pages eg. in footer) and mod_joomlawatch_visitors (which is optional, and can be published only on some pages where it's needed). - optimized the ajax requests, and refreshes, now the stats and visits refreshes only when there is a new visit - expand/collapse now appears only if there are more items in particular statistical group - fixed a bug causing that flags were not shown properly, if user had a different joomla table preffix than 'jos' that in all .sql files, there was jos_joomlawatch_ip2c, replaced it to #__joomlawatch_ip2c
(30.11.2008): New features : - available now in: english, german, dutch, french, slovak, spanish, russian, brazilian - settings divided into slides using the coda slider - splitted the jos_joomlawatch_ip2c into two separate tables, so it consumes 42% less database space. - new ip2country database from http://ip-to-country.webhosting.info/downloads/ (new more accurate ip to country resolving) - disable the backlink to codegravity in the settings - information about amount of data transferred per session.
(3.10.2008): New features : - english.php, which you can translate to your own language - GERMAN translation by Andreas Hofelich - right panel ignore ip fix - swap visitors/countries - other smaller improvements and bugfixes
(25.08.2008): VERSION 1.2.7 OFFICIAL - New features :
-complete documentation with references - username showing next to IP address and in statistics - recent came from (HTTP referer) in the list of visits - tooltip with a geographical map - daily and monthly graphs of a specific value, with daily and weekly increase in percents - goals (enables you to specify rules) and execute some action - frontend module that shows numbers of visitors today/yesterday/this week/last week/this month/last month/total - frontend module that displays the % of joomla visitors by countries - timezone offset in settings - ignore list for certain IPs, URI - better customization with new settings by checkboxes - reset all stats data button - customizable map from specific address http://ip2geomap.com?ip={ip} - added current date and time next to "We have x visitor and y guests online". - new logo - and many more new improvements :)
JoomlaWatch Documentation
Accessing JoomlaWatch
To access JoomlaWatch, log in to your Joomla administration. You will see the JoomlaWatch icon in the "Components" menu.
Accessing JoomlaWatch
Stats
You will see the JoomlaWatch main window. This window consists of JoomlaWatch menu (1), Visitors (2), Bots (3), Weekly visits graphs (4), Daily and All-time stats (5). All of these information are updated in real-time. It means, that you can easily "watch" what's going on currently on your website.
The main window of JoomlaWatch with visitors and stats
Latest joomla visitors
In this window you can see the "real users". Stats are updated in intervals specified in the settings. When there is some activity, it is highlighted by the yellow fading rectangle. In each row you can see:
A "globe-like" icon. When you point your mouse over this icon, the map is being displayed, where is the actual location of the user. The map comes from the 3rd party service (default by http://www.netip.de)
Then, there is country code
Country flag
IP address of visitor (you can click on this IP and toggle blocing of this user)
Username (below the ip address)
Browser icon (when you point your mouse over it, you will get the detailed browser information)
Operating system icon (when you point your mouse over it, you will get the detailed browser information)
Access time
Title of webpage (when you click on this link, the webpage will open)
URI of webpage (the relative webpage path)
Came from information (shows how did the actual visitor got to your webpage)
When the user visited more than one page, they are all listed there, with the actual time of the visit (as shown on a screenshot below).
The latest "real" visitors
Map
When you point your mouse cursor over the "globe" icon, that's usually at the very left. A new window will appear, opening a frame with a website that shows a location of this user on the map. During the time this window is open, everything behind it stops. This window will disappear, when you click somewhere else, and everything continues as before.
A geographical map showing where the user came from
Bots
The same applies to "bots". Bots are usualy special programs, that access your website for special purpose. Some of them are good (such as google bot that indexes your website content), and some of them are not (several spambots, that gather e-mail adresses). This differentiation is made by a simple "trick". When someone is a real user, his browser loads the page source (HTML), plus immediately all images. Bots just load the HTML source, which they usualy parse. You can also see, that these bots usualy don't have any browser identification.
Bots & spiders
Visit stats
This is a real-time updating statistics of your joomla visitors. The heading displays the current week number and year. The current week is selected by default. There is a simple navigation - you can move backward and forward between weeks. Then, the table for selected week follows. For each row: on the very left, there is a date, plus the week day shortcut. Then, there are three information. The first one, displayed in blue color, displays the number of unique visitors for that particular date. The green data mean the pageloads (how many webpages the users have viewed). The last information (in grey) are hits. These hits are taking also the loads that comes from the bots. In the cell to the very right, there is a graphical representation of these data - as bar charts. The percentage is a ratio (unique/pageloads). The lower this percentage is, the more pageviews each user on your website makes.
Visit statistics
Daily stats
This part shows the real-time updated statistical information for current day. You can also navigate to previous days. Each of the stats module shows the name, number of hits, an arrow, trends icon, graphical representation (a bar chart) and percentage. It contains just top 5 values. You can however see more values, when you click on "Expand" link. It shows 15 more records by default, but this number can be increased in the settings. At the bottom (Total:), there is a sum of all the data from this statistical part.
First, there is the URI stats part. It shows the most popular webpages of your website. It's shown as the relative path (the URI [Uniform Resource Identifier])
Next module is the Countries module. It shows a flag and a country code of your visitors.
Then, there are the Referers. The top domains, where your users came from
The IP module show the most active IP adresses on your website. Some IPs are "too active". This can make more load to your website. When you point your mouse over the 'globe' icon, you can see, where is this IP from. The country flag is also helpful there.
Daily statistics
It's not all..
Then you can see the most active users. You can also click on the username, and the user detail will be opened.
Goals are the special feature. It shows the top goal hits. For explanation, please see the Goals section. You can just click the goal name, and the form with that actual goal will be opened, and you can make some modifications to it.
The next feature is, the Google keywords. You can see the top 5 most used keywords the user have used to get to your website from any google search. For now, just google is supported, maybe there will be some other search interfaces added in the future.
Next, the top 5 browsers, with icons, and their statistics
And last, but not least, the icons and names of most popular operating systems used by your visitors
Daily statistics (continued)
All-time stats
When you click on the second tab, right next to the default "Daily" tab, you will see the all-time statistic. This statistic is made of all available data gathered from the time JoomlaWatch was installed. This is quite the same as the daily stats, except it takes a wider range.
All-time statistics
Frontend
In the frontend, there are the country information, plus information about the unique visits for: Today, Yesterday, This Week, Last Week, This Month, Last Month and Total. You can hide these information in the Settings, in the "Frontend" section.
JoomlaWatch Frontend showing the top Countries and Visitors information
Settings
In the settings you can alter several parameters concerning appearance, front-end appearance, history & performance, ignoring & blocking and some expert settings. All of the fields have the explanatory text with an example right next to it.
Appearance & Frontend settings
History & performance, Advanced, and Expert settings
Reset all data
At the very bottom, there is a link that resets all the data. This is good, when you want to start from scratch. Of course, there is a confirmation window to ask you whether you really wish to do that.
Reset all data link, and the confirmation window
Trends
Green & red arrow icon
You could have noticed some new icons next to each 'data' name. First one is the arrow icon. This icon indicates the increase or decrease or particular data - in our case (on screenshot), the visitors coming from extensions.joomla.org. This always the last yesterday's value compared to the day before yesterday. The arrow is green, when there's an increase, and red, when the value has decreased. When there is no change, the little gray dash (-) appears.
The arrow icon and the trend icon
Trend icon
Right next to the arrow, there is a little blue trends icon. When you move your mouse cursor over it, the window appear (as shown on a screenshot below). "Trends" are in fact, vertical bar charts, that show how your data changed in time. First graph shows the daily changes, and the next one, the weekly changes. Below each bar, there is a percentage, indicating the increase or decrease from the previous day. The same is on the weekly basis. These data are available everywhere, where there is a trend icon. It applies to all kind of data - URI, referers, keywords, countries, and even goals.
Trends (daily and weekly charts) for country: us
IP Blocking
You can block IP address, just by clicking on it. The confirmation is needed. When the IP is blocked, it's indicated by a strike-out.
Blocked IP, plus the confirmation window
IP Unblocking
To unblock the IP, you can click on blocked IP again. If this IP already disappeared from the visitors windows, you can still find it at the bottom of the stats window (as shown on a screenshot below). There you can directly see the number of blocked attempts for each IP. Click "unblock" to unblock it. You can also enter the IP manually, by clicking the "Enter the IP manually". There, you can use wildcards as well. Eg. 217.* will block all IP starting with 217.
List of blocked IPs, plus a window to enter a new IP manually
Goals
Goals.. Goals are quite handy feature when you want to get some more advanced information. "Goals allow you to specify special parameters. When these parameters match, the goal counter is increased. This way you can monitor whether the user has visited a specific URL, posted a specific value, has a specific username or came from a specific address. You can also block or redirect such users to some other URL.". On a screenshot below, you can see a table with several goals, their parameters, how many times the goal has been reached, and the action image buttons to enable/disable a goal, edit, and delete a goal. To create a new goal, click the icon with caption "New goal".
The main goals table
New goal
You will get the blank form. This topic is quite advanced, and might appear quite complex, but actualy isn't. Every field contains a long description, so it should be quite easy to figure out what to put there. When you don't fill anything in, the condition is ignored. It means, that the more fields are filled, the more likely is this goal going to be reached. The best would be to make an example: Let's assume, we want to protect our website from some spambots
Creating a new goal
Goal example - protecting our Order form
Let's assume now, that some bad guys posted a message about your website, on let's say: "badforum.org". The message states, that some of them has discovered, that you have a form on your website, and there is a possibility to flood this form with thousands of messages. This form represents an order form, and everytime someone submits the form, you receive a text-message about the new order. Your order form has an address: www.yoursite.com/order-form . However, this time someone wants to abuse it. Your order form is inacessible without registration, so they registered a user: botuser1. You have discovered, that they use special server somewhere in, let's say, Malaysia, for this purposes. The IP of their servers is 201.2.3.2, 201.2.3.3, 201.2.4.4.. This program they have made fills the order message about how fantastic the game "World of Warcraft" is, with tons of links to some inappropriate websites they own. So, with JoomlaWatch, you can do something against it, or agains some other attempts like this. Let's look at the filled form below: The first field contains the name of our goal, it can be anything. Then, there is the URI condition, that we are just checking whether they are trying to access a webpage with our form. Title condition is effective, when you want to protect several websites with some keyword in it. Then, their the username follows. Then, there is their IP address range, which covers all addresses mentioned above, just with one wildcard (*). Your form, when submitted, calls /order-form?form_action=submit_form. When you specify this, it will cover only the cases, when the form has been submitted. And.. when we look at the order form on our website, the field with named "order_message". (It's in the HTML source ) Finally.. we specify, where we want such bad guy to be redirected. In our case, it's some general server, or, if we do not want to forward him anywhere, we can just "block" him, and set the "Block" field to 1.
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MathGuard is free PHP class that everyone can use as anti-spam protection for the website forms. It's also a suitable solution when there is no PHP GD support from the webhosting company.
UPDATE: MathGuard version 3.0
Here's an example how to use MathGuard to protect your forms (Adobe Flash player required)
New version features a better way of rendering the expression that user has to evaluate. The numbers consist of 3x5 random character matrix.
featuring more complex anti-spam security question rendering - these numbers consist of the random letters
Download UPDATED version MathGuard
Go to the download section on this website and find there mathguard-v3.0.zip
Installation process is the same as in the version 2.0, so please install it the way it is described below.
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From the subject - Operating systems. Task: Emulation of UNIX FS. Create the program, which will be emulating the UNIX FS into a single file stored on a disk - deletion of file from this emulated filesystem.
my 3D OpenGL game I programmed this game as my university project for 'Computer Graphics' subject. The game is programmed in well known OpenGL in microsoft visual c++. OpenGL is great, because it allows you to control the 3D space on your computer's screen. 3D games are in these times very popular - there are games like counter strike, unreal tournament 2003, quake, etc. which are also using OpenGL. It took so much time, but you can see the results - some of screenshots are below
