IP address tracking tools

[Martin_S]

Hi,

Does anyone have any suggestions/recommendations as to how I can track visitors to my site by IP address (which I need to find out which IP's are hitting my site repeatedly)?

Are their decent tools and or plugins available to do this?

thanks

[donford]

Hi Martin

Google Analytics is a very good place to start.

Attached is a screen shot of what it looks like

There is even a live preview there that shows you users location that are on your site right now.

Pretty nice tool, I know there are many others but this one fits the bill for most of what we do.

Hope it helps.

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[Martin_S]

thanks Mate,

What I am looking for in fact is Individual IP addresses of site visitors, if that's possible, with the intention of blocking some from access. That's why I need to know who (via their IP) is visiting my site and how often.

[donford]

Ahh gotcha,

You can add some code to do this easily. Here is a post @ stackoverflow.com 

Once you get an IP you can record it in a table very easily, and even write a quick function that tracks the last page they visited, or even a txt file that logs it all. Review the logs and stomp out the baddies.

There are also services like MaxMind that can help with this.

[Martin_S]

Many thanks