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.

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.

Works right out of the box, and very easy to install - great documentation. Works great for 1.5. Thank you for sharing your work!

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.

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.
Only on legacy-mode.

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.

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

Totally agree with every other post awesome totally awesome. When can we expect a version to run on 1.5?

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.

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.

I was really awed and amazed at what this component can do. Works right after installation. This is the best stat component for Joomla.