Access Watch vs Epic Tracking – Click & Event Tracking for WordPress

End of life The Access Watch plugin for WordPress is not supported anymore and the plugin is unactive. The Access Watch plugin is a traffic analysis and security service. Our technology processes visitor activity on your WordPress website and delivers insights to improve site security and performance. Using innovative pattern matching and signature identification, our real-time analysis clearly breaks down your traffic between human and robots, immediately identifying threats and enabling you to block them from abusing your website. All in a beautiful and easy-to-use dashboard! Access Watch is highly efficient in detecting and mitigating numerous website threats, including: brute force attacks comment spam & trackback spam contact form spam suspicious registrations suspicious xml-rpc requests (spam, attacks) referer spam (also known as referral/referrer spam)

Epic Tracking lets you add event tracking to any element on your WordPress site using a visual editor. Click the element you want to track, give it a name, and you’re done — events start recording immediately. No code, no Google Tag Manager, no external scripts. Visual Click & Event Editor Open the visual editor on any page from the WordPress admin bar. Click a button, link, form, CTA, or any other element — give it a reference name and tag — and save. That’s it. The event is live and tracking starts immediately. Track button clicks, form submissions, link clicks, and CTA conversions Set up events in seconds with a point-and-click interface Organize events with custom tags for easy filtering No coding or tag manager knowledge required Built-in Analytics Dashboard The plugin includes a full analytics dashboard in your WordPress admin: Event trigger counts with unique visitor breakdowns Page view statistics with date range filtering Per-page detail views with referrer, device, browser, OS, and country data Daily traffic charts and trend visualization Sortable tables with pagination Self-Hosted & Privacy-Friendly All tracking data stays in your WordPress database. No data is sent to third-party analytics services. Visitors are identified using a single first-party cookie — no personal data is stored or shared. Features Visual event editor — Point-and-click setup for tracking clicks on any element Custom event tags — Organize events with tags for easy filtering and reporting Event analytics — See which events fire most, with trigger counts and unique visitors Page view tracking — Automatic visit logging with full referrer and device data Country geolocation — Automatic IP-based country detection for visitor locations Bot filtering — Known bots and crawlers are automatically excluded Role exclusion — Exclude administrators or any user role from being tracked Date range filtering — Quick presets (today, last 7 days, last 30 days) and custom ranges Lightweight — No impact on page load speed; tracking runs asynchronously after render Self-hosted — All data stored in your WordPress database, no external dependencies Clean uninstall — All tables and options are removed when you delete the plugin Use Cases Track which CTAs and buttons get the most clicks on your landing pages Measure form submission rates and conversion events without tag managers Monitor page views and traffic trends without Google Analytics See which referrers drive the most traffic to specific pages Understand visitor demographics: device type, browser, OS, and country Why Epic Tracking? Most WordPress event tracking requires Google Tag Manager, custom JavaScript, or expensive third-party services. Epic Tracking gives you a visual editor to set up event tracking in seconds — no code, no external scripts, no data leaving your server. External services This plugin uses the ip-api.com geolocation service to determine visitor country based on their IP address. An HTTP request is sent to ip-api.com each time a new visitor is recorded (unless a cached result is available). The request contains only the visitor’s IP address. No other personal data is sent. Service: ip-api.com Data sent: visitor IP address When: on each new visit (results are cached for 24 hours) Terms of service: ip-api.com/docs/legal Privacy policy: ip-api.com/docs/legal