Title: [Plugin: WP SlimStat] Map Spy View
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP SlimStat] Map Spy View

 *  Resolved [SecGen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secgen/)
 * (@secgen)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-slimstat-map-spy-view/)
 * Just switched over to this from WassUp due to some bugs.
 * Great plugin, the only thing missing is a WassUp style live Map spy view, where
   a pin is placed for each new visitor. Any plans on adding this?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-slimstat/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-slimstat/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [Jason Crouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/coolmann/)
 * (@coolmann)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-slimstat-map-spy-view/#post-2280887)
 * Hi there,
 * the information you’re looking for is already shown by WP SlimStat in the ‘Raw
   Data’ table, just in a different way: as a more detailed list of entries instead
   of a world map.
 * There are mainly three reasons why this hasn’t been added to my plugin yet:
 * 1. Geolocation is still extremely unreliable for tracking regions smaller than
   a Country (at least outside the United States). In Europe, for some known IP’s,
   I get a wide range of results depending on what service I use to locate them.
   So I consider this a waste of db space and computational power, to keep track
   of cities, regions and other detailed information about visits.
 * 2. I’d prefer spending my spare time implementing advanced features that make
   WP SlimStat a powerful tool to track not just ‘where your visitors came from’,
   but also what they did on your site. Starting with version 2.5 you can track 
   events, like Google +1 clicks, Facebook Likes etc. Plus you can track or ignore
   spammers, have an advanced engine for mobile browsers’ recognition, etc. A ‘fancy’
   map gives less information than you can currently get with WP SlimStat…
 * 3. In order to capture this information, WassUP connects to an external service(
   [http://freegeoip.net/json/](http://freegeoip.net/json/) ) every time the information
   is not already available in the database. This means having to wait for the remote
   service to send back the information, thus slowing down by a few orders of magnitute
   the performance of your blog. WP SlimStat relies on a local cache, and your blog’s
   performance is not affected if a remote service is down or slower than usual.
 * Nonetheless, if this feature will be requested by a consistent number of users,
   I’m willing to implement it 🙂 So if you still think it makes sense, start campaigning
   about it!
 * Cheers,
    Camu

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