JoomlaWatch is an AJAX component and module for Joomla CMS that allows you to watch your website 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.

DOWNLOAD the NEW version 1.2.5 (for Joomla 1.0 and 1.5)

(24.03.2008): VERSION 1.2.5

(16.03.2008): VERSION 1.2.4

Version 1.2.4 had some problems with installation and many people reported a "blank page". The bad thing is, that for me it works well. But was unable to figure out what was causing the problems for so many users.

New features in this version:

- Was rewritten to work with both Joomla 1.0 and 1.5 (NOW NATIVE)!
- IP statistics - can help you to identify spambots or users that make most requests
- IP blocking feature: blocking of single IPs or using wildcard filter
- A counter of blocked attempts for particular blocked IP
- Introduced some new config parameters
- Parameters now fully configurable in UI in back-end.
- Flags show the whole country name in mouseOver
- and many more fixes and improvements

(17.03.2008): VERSION 1.2.4

- I got some complains like "Why do I have to enable the legacy mode, when it should work with Joomla 1.5", or "the Legacy mode sux..", and so on..
- the thing was, that the you had to enable the legacy mode just because of a fact that two different versions of joomla use different XML descriptors (joomlawatch.xml in com_joomlawatch.zip)
- finally, I found a "trick", I did not know about before. You can have 2 descriptors in one .zip archive - (joomla.xml and joomla.j15.xml). Pitty that I did not know that before.
- but now it's fixed and it runs on 1.5 and 1.0 natively !
- so just please re-download and re-install from this day.

Things you shouldn't forget:

- When upgrading to a new version, all tables are being deleted, so if you want to keep the stats, make a database backup
- Before installation, please make sure you have at least 20 MB of free space.
- Don't forget to unzip the whole archive and then just use those .zip files for installation.
- Now you don't have to enable the legacy mode in Joomla 1.5
- You MUST publish the mod_joomlawatch module, to see users on your website.
- make sure you did all of this, before you ask for help in forum or in comments.
Thank you
 

Possible problems with registration
Some users reported that when they wanted to register, the system has blocked their account.
It's probably because you have to click the link recieved by an email to activate it.
When you don't revieve this email, your domain is probably blacklisted, so try to use another email.
If this still doesn't work, please write me a short email and I'll enable your account manually. Thank you.

Do you like JoomlaWatch? 

Please support it at extensions.joomla.org and submit your vote. Thank you :-P

See the most active IP addresses. This way you can
determine eg. spambots trying to harm your website.


Now everything is configured without editing configuration files with user-friendly interface


You can block several IP addresses manually


All IP you blocked are in a list with number of blocked attempts.

Click to see the flash demo of JoomlaWatch stats

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS for Joomla 1.0.x

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS for Joomla 1.5.x

From v1.2.4 you don't need to enable "Legacy mode" Plug-in.
Proceed like with installation for 1.0

To install the JoomlaWatch,
!!! first make sure you have enough space on your hosting, approximately 20 MB of free space !!!

Component installation for Joomla

1. log into the joomla administration

2. Choose Installers->Components

3. Click "Browse..."

4. Choose the com_joomlawatch.zip you downloaded

5. Click "Upload File & Install"

6. You should see the Installation procedure and the "Installation finished".

Module installation for Joomla

This module shows a little monitoring icon with JoomlaWatch logo on your website.
This way you can identify a browser of your visitor or whether it's a bot.
Without this icon there won't be any user-Agent information available.


1. Choose Installers->Modules

2. Click "Browse..."

3. Choose the mod_joomlawatch.zip you downloaded


4. Click "Upload File & Install"

5. Choose Modules->Site modules

6. Find JoomlaWatch and click the "X" icon to make it switch from unpublished to published

7. Click the JoomlaWatch link, and choose where this module would appear.
   The default are right, left, bottom.. but make sure this position appears in your template.
   It's also recommended to switch the "Show title" to No.
   Pages/Items -> MenuItem Link(s) has to be "All".

8. Click the "Save" icon and check whether your site shows the joomlawatch icon.

That's it ! 

CONFIGURATION OPTIONS

You can change some parameters of JoomlaWatch editing the /components/com_joomlawatch/config.php file. 

/* This is the main file with basic settings */

define('JOOMLAWATCH_VERSION', "1.2.0");
define('JOOMLAWATCH_UPDATE_TIME_VISITS', "2000"); // time in miliseconds, default is 2000, be careful with this
define('JOOMLAWATCH_UPDATE_TIME_STATS', "4000"); // time in miliseconds, default is 4000, be careful with this

define('JOOMLAWATCH_MAXID_BOTS',10);            // how many bot visits keep in database
define('JOOMLAWATCH_MAXID_VISITORS',60);        // how many real visits keep in database

define('JOOMLAWATCH_TRUNCATE_VISITS',40);       // maximum characters to be shown in long titles and uris
define('JOOMLAWATCH_TRUNCATE_STATS',20);        // maximum characters to be shown in right statistics panel

define('JOOMLAWATCH_STATS_KEEP_DAYS',9);        // days to keep statistics, 0 = infinite

UPDATE INSTRUCIONS 

1. Re-download the latest archive from the download section of this website

2. Unzip the archive with joomla component and module into some temporary folder ( the archive contains com_joomlawatch.zip, mod_joomlawatch.zip and some     text files)

3. Uninstall the old JoomlaWatch module
    Choose Installers -> Modules from the main menu
    choose mod_joomlawatch
    click "Uninstall icon" in the upper right corner

4. Install the new JoomlaWatch module
    Click "Browse",
    choose a mod_joomlawatch.zip from your temporary folder,
    Click "Upload file & Install"

5. Uninstall the old JoomlaWatch component
    Choose Installers->Components from the main menu
    choose JoomlaWatch
    click "Uninstall icon" in the upper right corner

6. Install the new JoomlaWatch component
    Click "Browse",
    choose a com_joomlawatch.zip from your temporary folder,
    Click "Upload file & Install"

7. Publish the JoomlaWatch module:
    Choose Modules->Site modules from the main menu
    Find JoomlaWatch and click the "X" icon to make it switch from unpublished to published
    Click the JoomlaWatch link, and choose where this module would appear.
    The default are right, left, bottom.. but make sure this position appears in your template.
    It's also recommended to switch the "Show title" to No.
    Pages/Items -> MenuItem Link(s) has to be "All".
    Click the "Save" icon and check whether your site shows the joomlawatch icon.

Reporting possible problems of this Joomla stats component

Even though most of the bugs are fixed in the latest update, the range of browsers, web servers and their different implementation is very wide, so it's impossible to reproduce the runtime enviroment of every user - you.

Before reporting any possible problem, please read the Forum of this website, whether the solution isn't there.
If not, please try to include as much information as you can (Browser type and version, PHP version, OS, and the problem why it didn't work). Not just "it doesn't work for me". This kind of report doesn't help anyone. Thank you. 

OLDER RELEASES: 

UPDATE (27.01.2008)

- added more configurable options into config.php
- JOOMLAWATCH_BLANK_ICON to use the blank icon
- date and week offsets
- JOOMLAWATCH_SERVER_URI_KEY option for cases that it logged only index.php.
  Now, there is an option to use your own $_SERVER key

To upgrade to the new version, please just re-download and re-install.

VERSION 1.2.0

Changes and improvements:

- improved security
- now showing real visitors and bots separately
- added right panel with live statistic information:
- graph showing weekly unique visitors, page loads and total hits
- smaller expandable charts showing daily and all-time count and
percentage of popular pages, countries, browsers and operating systems
- more configurable parameters
- performance improvements using database indices and optimized queries
- everything made by AJAX request and partial page updates so you don't
have to wait for the whole page refresh
 

UPDATE (03.12.2007): Some improvements - version 1.0.3

- discovered a bug, some PHP configuration are just set to interpret <?php and ignore <? , fixed
- config.php with the update interval configuraiton
- country code right next to the country flag (for those who don't know country flags)
- JoomlaWatch icon now looks better on a dark background
- some minor issues fixed (thanks to Wayne Wenquiang)
- notice about the latest version in the installation
- versioning

UPDATE (22.11.2007): Automatic Refresh in IE

Some users reported that the administration part did not refresh automatically. I found out that this problem occured only in Internet Explorer. The problem was, that IE did not recognized the http.responseText[i] javascript  command, so I replaced it with  http.responseText.charAt(i) and succesfully tested it with Internet explorer, firefox and Joomla 1.0.13.

Sorry for any inconvenience 

UPDATE (15.11.2007): Notices

Some people reported, that the JoomlaWatch icon was not properly shown, and therefore JoomlaWatch did not work. It was mainly because they had the PHP NOTICES enabled on server by default. This caused the coruption of the gif icon adding PHP text output to icon's binary data.

In this fix I suppressed the notices by adding the @ in front of several PHP expressions and corrected some PHP's complains.

A country flag, IP address, browser and OS identification, title and url of the webpage

Click to see the flash demo of JoomlaWatch stats

Stats layout in Joomla administration

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