Title: Access Watch: Security and Traffic Insights Author: François Hodierne Published: February 8, 2016 Last modified: November 26, 2018 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/access-watch/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=1706760) This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress. ![](https://ps.w.org/access-watch/assets/icon.svg?rev=1706740) # Access Watch: Security and Traffic Insights By [François Hodierne](https://profiles.wordpress.org/znarfor/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/access-watch.zip) * [Details](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/access-watch/#description) * [Reviews](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/access-watch/#reviews) * [Installation](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/access-watch/#installation) * [Development](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/access-watch/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/access-watch/) ## Description **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) ## Screenshots * [[ * **Dashboard**: Access Watch’s unique dashboard brings key metrics omitted by other analytics tools. Requests per second, human v robot traffic split and threat level breakdown are key indicators of your website’s performance and security. * [[ * **Robots**: Access Watch let’s you visualize your website’s most active robots in an innovative interface. Clear and easy to read, the more requests a robot makes, the larger it’s graphical representation. You’ll quickly spot which robots generate the most activity on your website and if they are unnecessary or abusive. * [[ * **Events**: Access Watch informs you each time something relevant is happening on your website. From the ‘Events’ screen, you will be able to block suspicious robots performing an attack and get an overview of existing bad robots whose actions are already blocked. * [[ * **Requests**: Access Watch allows you to see all website requests in real-time. This granular data is critical when troubleshooting website issues. Access Watch augments traditional website logs with multiple layers of added intelligence to give you the full picture while saving valuable time and resources. * [[ ## Installation #### Assisted Installation Installation is free, quick, and easy. [Install Access Watch from our site with our assistant](https://access.watch/wordpress/install) in a few clicks. #### Manual Alternatives Alternatively, install Access Watch via the plugin directory, or upload the files manually to your server and follow the on-screen instructions. If you need additional help [read our step by step instructions](https://access.watch/wordpress/manual). ## FAQ Who’s behind Access Watch? The Access Watch service is operated by “Access Watch Technologies GmbH”, a company based in Berlin (Germany) with an international team. Our servers are also currently located in Germany, so is your data. How does it work? After each HTTP request on your WordPress website, the metadata are logged to the Access Watch service. The data sent is commonly named “Access Logs”, it contains things like the client IP Address, the HTTP Method, the HTTP Headers and the URL. Is it free? Yes, a free version of Access Watch will always be available for the community! The free plan allows users to connect 1 website and processes up to 100,000 requests each month. If you would like to use Access Watch for multiple websites or a higher volume of requests we also offer paid plans to suit your needs, starting at just €19 per month. More information can be found on [our pricing page](https://access.watch/pricing). What about performance? By default, Access Watch is caching data in your website MySQL database using the“ Transients API” from WordPress. While it works well for most websites, for demanding websites we suggest using an alternate WordPress object cache, such as the one provided by the “W3 Total Cache” plugin. Please let us know if there is any issue or if you need help! ## Reviews ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/92c09aedb1a728b17470bc82ac39e30024538d7bcc07499694e00c0bc88657ac? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[So Good](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/so-good-124/)󠁿 [imgooo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/imgooo/) April 24, 2018 It works better than other popular traffic tracking plugins! A big thank you to its creator(s)! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/66b31f43106bdac0d026f891bfccf4853619e6b561bdc4db84e55982075601e9? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Deserves 5 Star Rating!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/deserves-5-star-rating/)󠁿 [Anonymous User 14978628](https://profiles.wordpress.org/anonymized-14978628/) April 23, 2018 What a great plugin this is! Really excellent. Lovely design, and provides very useful and easy to understand data about bad bots visiting your site. Doesn’t seem to work entirely correctly for me, as it only records bot visits to my site and not regular visitors. So there seems to be some issue with this plugin and either using a cache plugin or cloudflare. But all i want it for is monitoring bots. And that it does extremely well! There is an option to block bots, but nothing i can see to unblock bots later on (unless you click on that bot again in the watch list) or a list of what bots you have blocked. So something like that in a future update would be great! I initially installed this plugin thinking i would only use it for a short time, but it’s so great i’ve kept it ever since! This plugin would probably get more installs if it had something relating to “block bots” in the title! ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/10b27011bd7c569f86880624e98ba47fb4ce3a4250d6e056efe22de44e6d1ca6? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Usufull and easy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/usufull-and-easy/)󠁿 [mucchin](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mucchin/) November 11, 2017 Now That I am use to it, I Could not live without it. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b7f609c4b63b764dd0c742f683dec3a8f028e6b6112e7d95076b30c983e6eb67? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Useful plugin against bad bots](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/useful-plugin-against-bad-bots/)󠁿 [kuss](https://profiles.wordpress.org/kuss/) July 20, 2017 Very useful to help keep bad bots out of your site! Keep up the good work! 🙂 ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/87b67ce3fc45d46d1ee30a24ba876a9562d7fa5f43383494517219d385a10528? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[A tool everybody should have](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-tool-everybody-should-have/)󠁿 [severin07](https://profiles.wordpress.org/severin07/) March 13, 2017 Access Watch lets me see in real time what’s happening on my website. I now know that I have many visitors from Russia and China, although none of them are humans( unfortunately). Can recommend this to anyone who operates a website big or small. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/83cd044ee7c454173cf8b27d6fc6a946a5fee79b42140dd7ba5805bdfa318ed7? s=60&d=retro&r=g) ### 󠀁[Beautiful Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/beautiful-plugin-41/)󠁿 [José](https://profiles.wordpress.org/alquimia/) February 21, 2017 Beautiful Plugin [ Read all 12 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/access-watch/reviews/) ## Contributors & Developers “Access Watch: Security and Traffic Insights” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ Franﾃｧois Hodierne ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/znarfor/) * [ Access Watch ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/accesswatch/) [Translate “Access Watch: Security and Traffic Insights” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/access-watch) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/access-watch/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/access-watch/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/access-watch/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/access-watch/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 2.0.0 _Release Date – 09 November 2018_ * End of life * Disabling the plugin * Sorry #### 1.2.5 _Release Date – 19 September 2017_ * Fix zoom with Firefox #### 1.2.4 _Release Date – 18 September 2017_ * Fix issue preventing the dashboard to initialize * Fix dashboard issues with Firefox #### 1.2.0 _Release Date – 14 September 2017_ * Introduce the Zoom feature in the Dashboard #### 1.1.2 _Release Date – 24 August 2017_ * Slightly updated UI * Ability to upgrade plan from the interface #### 1.0.1 _Release Date – 08 June 2017_ * Bug fix release #### 1.0.0 _Release Date – 29 May 2017_ * Completely new UI. Thank you Milan & Jean! * New onboarding * Remove robots.txt handling #### 0.6.1.2 _Release Date – 15 March 2017_ * UI update: detailed request improvements #### 0.6.1 _Release Date – 12 March 2017_ * UI update: detailed request panel #### 0.6.0 _Release Date – 27 February 2017_ * Updated user interface * Get the name and description of the bad robots * For top identified robots, link to our public robot database * In the request screen, click on a request to get details on the agent * We hope you’ll like it! Tell us what you think! #### 0.5.10 _Release Date – 18 February 2017_ * change how the urls for plugin assets are generated #### 0.5.9 _Release Date – 13 February 2017_ * Handle uninstall hook #### 0.5.8 _Release Date – 26 January 2017_ * disable db execution time tracking #### 0.5.7 _Release Date – 23 January 2017_ * Happy New Year! * update PHP libraries: updated session and feedback handling * better track execution time: db and http breakdown #### 0.5.6 _Release Date – 1 December 2016_ * UI update: improve Agent logs panel #### 0.5.5 _Release Date – 28 November 2016_ * UI update: more events #### 0.5.4 _Release Date – 24 November 2016_ * UI update: more robot icons #### 0.5.3 _Release Date – 23 November 2016_ * UI update: robots filter #### 0.5.2 _Release Date – 21 November 2016_ * UI update: logs pagination #### 0.5.1 _Release Date – 11 November 2016_ * UI update: Real Time Requests with WebSocket #### 0.5.0 _Release Date – 9 November 2016_ * UI update: Add Worldmap to dashboard, Focus on Robots ## Meta * Version **2.0.0-end-of-life** * Last updated **7 years ago** * Active installations **30+** * WordPress version ** 4.0 or higher ** * Tested up to **4.9.29** * Language * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/access-watch/) * Tags * [analytics](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/analytics/)[dashboard](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/dashboard/) [security](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/security/)[spam](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/spam/) [statistics](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/statistics/) * [Advanced View](https://test.wordpress.org/plugins/access-watch/advanced/) ## Ratings 5 out of 5 stars. * [ 12 5-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/access-watch/reviews/?filter=5) * [ 0 4-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/access-watch/reviews/?filter=4) * [ 0 3-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/access-watch/reviews/?filter=3) * [ 0 2-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/access-watch/reviews/?filter=2) * [ 0 1-star reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/access-watch/reviews/?filter=1) [Your review](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/access-watch/reviews/#new-post) [See all reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/access-watch/reviews/) ## Contributors * [ Franﾃｧois Hodierne ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/znarfor/) * [ Access Watch ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/accesswatch/) ## Support Got something to say? 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