JoomlaWatch 1.2.9 ComponentModule

JoomlaWatch allows you to watch your website visitors and bots in real-time from the administration menu. Specially their IP addresses, countries they come from, geographical location on a map, 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, see blocked attempts stats, evaluate the trend charts, and create goals based on many parameters. In the frontend, it can show the top countries, user and visit information for certain periods of time.

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
- live site setting in config.php
- refactored classes
- starting frontend value of "total:" in settings
- "add as goal" link from statistics

11.5.2009:
- czech, danish translation

18.5.2009:
- lithuanian, polish translation

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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 ;)
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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.

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!
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!
bydnesic on April 17, 2009
Extremely useful component to monitor activities. Great job! TNX.
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
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.
bydoc.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.
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"
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.
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).
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 :)

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.
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.
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!
bymathetes on December 11, 2008
This installed easily and runs perfectly for me. It does all I wanted and more, and in a very attractive format.
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