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Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics · Version history

Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics changelog and version history

Latest version
8.18
Oct 18, 2026 (23 days ago)
Releases
70
since 2018
In the last year
15
about one every 17 days
Tested up to
WordPress 7.1.4

Releases each year

  • 20181 release
  • 20203 releases
  • 202119 releases
  • 202216 releases
  • 20236 releases
  • 20245 releases
  • 20255 releases
  • 202615 releases

202615 releases

  1. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.18Latest

    • Stronger bot filtering: crawlers and automated browsers that run JavaScript but do not call themselves “bot” (GoogleOther, Google-InspectionTool, Chrome-Lighthouse, HeadlessChrome, Puppeteer/Playwright/Selenium, uptime monitors, HTTP libraries, AI crawlers…) are no longer counted as visitors. The r…
    • Pages prerendered by the browser are only counted when the visitor actually opens them. Chrome prerenders top Google results, which was inflating “search engine visits”.
    • Accurate time on site: engaged time is now measured in the browser (visible tab + recent interaction) and reported per page view. It replaces the Heartbeat-based duration, which kept counting for idle/background tabs and measured the first-to-last request of an IP over the whole day. Single-page vi…
    • Clearer traffic sources: each visit is counted once, under the source of its first page. Google visits now appear under Organic Search (they were listed as a “google.com” referral), and Gmail, Google Docs, Translate and similar links are no longer counted as search engine visits.
    • More accurate countries: the visitor IP is taken from Cloudflare/CDN headers first, internal proxy addresses are skipped, “IP:port” values are understood, and Cloudflare’s country takes priority. The location cache now expires (30 days, 1 day for unknown).
    • Visitors whose IP cannot be determined are no longer counted as a new visitor on every page view.
    • Performance: database schema checks (including two ALTER TABLE statements) no longer run on every request, only once after an update. The front end no longer loads jQuery and WordPress Heartbeat for visitors, and the visitor IP is no longer printed into the page HTML (which page-cache plugins could…
    • Removed the fake “First Visit” hit recorded on installation.
    • Refreshed dashboard design: new header with the site-time clock, colored stat boxes with 7-day sparklines, Traffic Report with range buttons and visitor columns + page-view line, a single “Browsers & Search Engines” card with ranked bars (replaces the two pie charts and no longer loads Google Chart…
    • New “Visitors by Country” map: countries shaded by their number of visitors, with a Today / 7 days / 30 days / All time switcher. Borders ship with the plugin, so the map no longer loads map tiles from an external server. The ranked top-countries list beside it is a Pro preview.
    • New Summary Statistics layout: traffic per period with the change vs. yesterday and new vs. returning visitors (last 30 days).
    • Fix: “Last 7 Days”, “Last 30 Days” and “This Year” in Summary Statistics counted one extra day; they now match the Traffic Report.
    • Cards no longer stretch to the height of the card next to them, so there is no empty space under short tables.
    • “Visits Time Graph” is now “Visits by Hour”: one compact 24-hour chart with the busiest hour and the current hour highlighted, instead of a paged table (date search and Excel export are kept).
    • Faster Traffic Report and Summary Statistics: date filters now use the database index instead of scanning every visit, plus a new covering index; “All time” caches past months. Fixes: “All time” showed a single month when the history spanned whole years, and “30 days” / “Last month” showed one day…
    • Recent visitors: cleaner rows (country in bold with the city, readable color-coded time on site such as “2 min 5 sec”), and a row now expands inline instead of opening a popup.
    • The “Online Users” box now shows the live number of visitors online (refreshed every 30 seconds). The list of who is online remains a Pro feature.
    • Fix: “Today vs. yesterday” badges compared today-so-far with the whole of yesterday, so they showed a decrease for most of the day. They now compare with yesterday up to the same time.
    • “Traffic by Title” redesigned: ranked rows with a share bar, and clicking a page expands it inline instead of opening a popup.
    • New, cleaner upgrade window that explains what PRO adds; it appears at most once per session and “Don’t show again” turns it off.
    • “Latest Search Keywords” is now “Search Traffic”, with three tabs: the pages search-engine visitors land on, what visitors type into your site’s own search box (including searches that found nothing), and a preview of Google search keywords from Search Console (coming to PRO). Google and Bing no lo…
    • Uninstall: when “Delete plugin data on uninstall” is enabled, the online-users and daily-stats tables and the database version markers are now removed too, so a later re-install sets up the database correctly.
    • Redesigned Settings page: sections as cards with a side menu, on/off switches, the geolocation database status at a glance, a separate danger zone for data deletion (with a confirmation) and a save bar that stays in view. Fix: the last excluded user role could not be removed, and saving an empty ac…
    • Redesigned Help page: quick links (FAQ, support, review), every shortcode with a copy button, a table of all [ahc_stats_widget] options with an example, and answers to common questions. Fix: in [ahc_stats_widget], display_total_visitors=false also hid the total page views.
    • Shortcodes and the “Visitor Traffic” widget: consistent “Label: value” rows, no empty heading or invalid style when no title/font is set. The widget now uses the theme’s widget wrapper and title style, its settings are sanitized when saved, and a stray backslash was removed from its settings form l…
    • English review of every label, notice and message: clearer box and panel titles (“Search Engine Visits”, “Today’s Traffic by Country”), consistent “vs. same time yesterday”, fixed typos and punctuation, an up-to-date message on the Plugins page and a rewritten upgrade banner. The plugin description…
    • Better first run: until the first visit is recorded, the dashboard shows a short “Tracking is on” guide (see your first visit, exclude your own visits, add a shortcode). The “vs. yesterday” badges show a neutral dash when there is nothing to compare and “New” when yesterday had no visits, instead o…

  2. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.17

    • Security hardening (follow-up to the 8.16 X-Real-IP XSS fix): visitor data in the dashboard (IP, country, city, region, browser, page titles) is now escaped with entity double-encoding, so values stored by older versions can no longer be decoded back into HTML. Invalid IP values left in the databas…
    • Security hardening: the dashboard’s HTML-to-text helper now uses an inert parser instead of innerHTML, and the IP filter in the Recent Visitors search is escaped before being used in the database query.

  3. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.16

    • Security fix: resolved an unauthenticated stored DOM-based Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the ‘X-Real-IP’ (and other forwarded-IP) HTTP headers. The visitor IP is now strictly validated as a real IPv4/IPv6 address before it is stored, and all visitor data shown in the IP details popup…
    • Visitor map now shows place names in English for all countries (switched to Esri World Street Map tiles, no API key required).

  4. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.14

    • Critical fix: on sites running PHP older than 8.1, the tracking request (admin-ajax.php) crashed with a fatal error, so no visits were recorded at all. The bundled geolocation library requires PHP 8.1+; it is now loaded only when the server supports it. On older PHP, visitor country is resolved fro…

  5. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.13

    • Fix: visitor tracking script (front.js) no longer depends on jQuery, so it loads and records visits even on sites that defer or remove jQuery via performance/optimization plugins. This resolves cases where statistics were not being recorded on some sites.

  6. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.12

    • Security fix: resolved a reflected XSS vulnerability in the Traffic Sources date filter (from_dt / to_dt) on the statistics page; these values are now properly escaped with esc_attr() before output

  7. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.11

    • Fixed visitor tracking sometimes failing with a 400 (Bad Request) error on pages whose title or referrer contained special characters; all tracking values are now properly URL-encoded
    • Front-end tracking script is now versioned so browsers always load the latest version after an update
    • Visitor map now stretches to fill the space next to the statistics panel, removing the empty gap below it
    • Side-by-side dashboard panels now share the same height, removing uneven gaps below shorter panels (including the visitors list next to the country panel)

  8. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.10

    • performance improvements

  9. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.9.1

    • Security fixes and general performance improvements
    • Country, region and city are now detected from a local GeoIP database (MaxMind GeoLite2) instead of external API calls, fixing slowdowns and server overload on busy sites

  10. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.9

    • Country, region and city are now detected from a local GeoIP database (MaxMind GeoLite2) instead of external API calls, fixing slowdowns and server overload on busy sites
    • New Geolocation settings tab with auto-download and monthly auto-update of the database
    • Fixed IPv6 addresses not showing in visitor reports
    • Security fixes and general performance improvements

  11. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.8

    • Refreshed the dashboard with new summary boxes and trend indicators

  12. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.7

    • Accurate session duration tracking using WordPress Heartbeat API (fixes single-page visits showing as 1 second)
    • Redesigned dashboard with modern stat boxes, sparkline charts, and day-over-day comparison indicators
    • Smarter Y-axis scaling on the visitors chart for cleaner readability with large numbers
    • Improved English and Arabic labels (grammar, spelling, and consistency)
    • Fixed timezone handling in duration calculations to prevent incorrect time values

  13. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.6

    • Resolved fatal error caused by missing ahcpro_get_current_timezone_offset() function in visitor tracking.

  14. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.5

    • Prevent Stored XSS in visitor tracking
    • Prevent XSS when displaying page titles in the admin
    • Use safe text for DataTable content
    • Improved wp-cron cleanup (performance)
    • Safer DB Cleanup (DELETE by batch)
    • Bot Filtering (Reduce Monitoring Overhead)

  15. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.4

    • Fixed spelling error in “visitors yesterday”
    • Corrected label under “Views Today” from “visitors” to “views”
    • Improved UI text consistency for visitor/view statistics

20255 releases

  1. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.3

    • Bug fixes
    • Top bar widget
    • Page and post statistics
    • Addition of new statistics and reports
    • Enhancements to existing reports

  2. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.2

    • CSS Bug fixes.
    • Fix map issue with opera browser

  3. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 8.1

    • Compatibility issue with certain ad blockers causing page display errors.

  4. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 7.8

    • Ensure $vtr_ip_address is properly initialized before usage to prevent undefined variable warnings.

  5. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 7.7

    • Bug fixing in the browser statistics
    • Bug fixing in the timezone settings
    • WordPress 6.7.1 support

20245 releases

  1. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 7.6

    • changing the upgrade to PRO link
    • WordPress 6.5.5 support

  2. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 7.5

    • changing the upgrade to PRO link

  3. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 7.4

    • changing the upgrade to PRO link
    • Bug fixes – NOTICE message

  4. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 7.3

    • Security Bug fixing in ajax requests (Broken Access Control)

  5. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 7.2

    • Bug fixing
    • WordPress 6.3.1 support

20236 releases

  1. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 7.1

  2. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 6.9

  3. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 6.8

  4. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 6.7

  5. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 6.6

  6. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 6.5

202216 releases

  1. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 6.4

  2. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 6.3

  3. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 6.2

  4. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 6.1

  5. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 5.9

  6. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 5.8

  7. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 5.7

  8. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 5.6

  9. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 5.5

  10. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 5.4

  11. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 5.3

  12. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 5.2

  13. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 5.1

  14. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 4.9

  15. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 4.8

  16. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 4.6

202119 releases

  1. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 4.5

  2. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 4.4

  3. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 4.3

  4. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 4.2

  5. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 4.1

  6. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.17

  7. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.16

  8. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.15

  9. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.14

  10. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.13

  11. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.12

  12. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.11

  13. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.10

  14. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.9

  15. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.8

  16. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.7

  17. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.6

  18. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 3.5

  19. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 2.13

20203 releases

  1. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 2.6

  2. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 1.21

  3. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 1.17

20181 release

  1. Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics 1.3

Questions about Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics’s releases

What is the latest version of Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics?

8.18, released on Oct 18, 2026 (3 weeks ago). It’s tested up to WordPress 7.1.4.

How often is Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics updated?

15 releases in the last year, about one every 17 days. Its first release on WordPress.org dates from August 2018.

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Release dates come from the day each version’s folder was made in Visitor Traffic Real Time Statistics’s WordPress.org SVN repository; the notes from its readme’s changelog, as its authors wrote it.