ExtraWatch 
Version
2.0 (last update on Apr 8, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
149
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
14 January 2008
Uses Updater?
- Yes
Editor's Note
- This extension inserts a backlink to the developer.
Watch your visitors behaviour and optimize your website. Front-end counters with country flags, number of visits per specific time period, latest users, Live Stats, Goals, Block harmful IP addresses, Anti-spam, 38 languages.
- Front-end counters - displays number of visits for today, yesterday, this week, last week, this month, last month, total - then logged in users, and visitors by countries
- Live Stats displays the your visitor's visits in real-time together with the valuable statistic information and maps. You can perform several useful actions from this dashboard.
- History displays the configurable amount of previous visits. ExtraWatch focuses more on visitor behaviour and doesn't keep much visitor data.
- Goals allows you to track various types of user actions
- Graphs section contains daily and weekly bar charts for pages, goals, users .. etc.
- Anti-spam - contains list of spam words and blocked IP addresses
- Emails section - allows you to configure nightly email reports
- Settings - different configuration options plus possibility to choose one from 38 world languages
- translations: Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Chinese-simplified, Chinese-traditional, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese
20.10.2012:
- Added compatibility with Joomla 3.0
- Added free Android market application which allows you to access your joomla back-end with ExtraWatch in one click from your home screen
24.05.2013:
- confirmed compatibility with Joomla 3.1
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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!
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
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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 !!
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 !!
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!
Thumbs up to the JoomlaWatch dev team!
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
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 :-)
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 :-)
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!
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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!
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!
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!!
Is a Good Component!!
Con un poco mas de tiempo y mejoras en lo que a lenguaje y configuración refiere, no tendrá competencia!!
Con un poco mas de tiempo y mejoras en lo que a lenguaje y configuración refiere, no tendrá competencia!!
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!
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