{"id":129145,"date":"2025-02-05T21:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T02:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/?p=129145"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T17:13:09","slug":"how-to-analyze-wordpress-traffic-with-goaccess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/product-guides\/central\/projects\/how-to-analyze-wordpress-traffic-with-goaccess\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Analyze WordPress Traffic with GoAccess"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Your UltraStack VPS<\/a> has a powerful tool for analyzing your visitor information in a useful graphical tool called GoAccess. You can use it to view IP addresses of your visitors, analyze cache performance and more.<\/p>\n\n\n

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How to View the GoAccess Tool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  1. Navigate to your production environment, and click the Tools<\/strong> icon at the top-right
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  2. Here, you\u2019ll have options to view your Files, Database, or Access Logs
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    GoAccess Logs Features<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    A lot of information is available from GoAccess<\/a>. Here, we\u2019ll cover each of the tools in detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Settings and Preferences<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Click on the cog icon at the top-left to adjust your display preferences and export the log files as a JSON file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Overall Analyzed Requests<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    At the top of the screen, you\u2019ll see a summary of all the requests in the log, including total requests, failed requests, unique visitors, files, and total data transferred for the time period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Unique Visitors per Day<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    View the total number of unique visitors to your website based on IP address, Date, and User agent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Visitor Hostnames and IP\u2019s<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    View the IP addresses of your visitors and the number of requests they\u2019ve made. You can use this information to determine if specific IP addresses are trying to abuse your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Cache Status of the Object Served<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    You can use this graph to get detailed information about the performance of your NGINX proxy cache, how many requests are Cache HIT and how many are Cache MISS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Referring Sites<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Learn where your traffic is coming from with the referring sites tool. Identify inbound links and search traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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