WP Visitor Statistics (Real Time Traffic) is used to determine the traffic on a WordPress website by extracting information from the server logs. After the installation, the plugin begins the analysis and obtains the count of visitors in real time. It is noted that the plugin produces relatively accurate results that can be trusted for any purpose. It divides the visitors into two categories: returning and new. Returning visitors are those which visit the website multiple times whereas new visitors are those that visit the website for the first time. In addition to this, a graph is also produced to display the data of visitors over the last 24 hours, 7 days, and 30 days. This helps in obtaining a deep insight into the trends of visitor numbers.

The main dashboard of the plugin displays a wide range of information such as total number of hits, number of hits from last visits, total number of unique visitors, number of unique visitors for last visits, and the total number of hits for today. This information can be of help for making decisions in terms of website structure and content planning. For example, sources of visits and countries can be known and their data can be filtered accordingly. The data of the sites visited by the visitors can also be obtained. Other features include the tracking of regions and cities by location, session duration, referring page which contains details of the previous page a visitor viewed before entering your website.

It is important to understand that the data collected by the plugin is always delayed by a few seconds. This can be explained by the fact that logs of the server take a few seconds to updated, and therefore the plugin requires that much time to display information. There is also an option of disabling the capture of bots and spiders.