Watching visitor activity in real time

We have seen already how we can find out about the site visitors in detail. However, it is collected data and we see the data at a later stage. What about finding out about visitor activity in real time? For many site administrators, it will be exciting to know who the visitors are and which pages they are currently browsing. In this recipe, I am going to show you how to add an extension for watching your visitors' activity in real time.

Getting ready…

JoomlaWatch is a popular extension for watching visitor activities in real time. You can download this extension from www.codegravity.com. First you need to register to this site for downloading the extension. Once you have downloaded the extension package, unzip it. Then you will get four installation files including com_joomlawatch.zip and mod_joomlawatch_agent.zip. From the Extensions | Install/Uninstall screen, install com_joomlawatch.zip and mod_joomlawatch_agent.zip file.