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Installed this on a few sites I run, its really seems like exactly what I want for simple "is anyone viewing this page" type of info. I had previously left GA and analytics all together around the time GDPR passed.

One question, does this plugin have the ability to filter out traffic from web crawlers? The sites I run are low volume, so a non-trivial amount of traffic comes from crawlers and other bots.

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The plugin issues a tracking request using a tiny client-side JS script, so most of those bots will already be omitted (as lots will most likely not be executing JavaScript or have `navigator.doNotTrack` enabled).

That said, I believe some of the smarter ones may still be tracked right now so I will add some user agent filtering to the script to make sure they aren't!

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