Online Bot Scanner OpenCart

The module displays the activity of bots on the site in the "DashBoard" and in the "Online Clients" report (bots are displayed instead of "Guests") with the ability to record UserAgent 's of visitors to a log file (for debugging and catching missed bots).

By default, OpenCart keeps statistics of visits for the last hour (one first visit per IP address is recorded).

The module is very useful for analyzing current visitors, identifying bots and identifying load vectors on the site.

Tracked bots are configured in the standard settings of the store in the "Options" tab in the "Account" section after setting "Online Clients" (substrings from the UserAgent, separated by the "|" symbol).

You should get something like " YandexBot|Googlebot|rambler|mail.ru|aport|lycos|yahoo|bingbot|bing|facebook " (no quotes, case doesn't matter).

In the same place conducting LOG'a joins.

Nothing else needs to be configured.

Logs are written to the regular directory "system/logs/useragents.log".

In it, caught bots are marked with "pluses", and other visitors are marked without them (see the screenshot above).

To protect it from intruders, add the following entry to your .htaccess:

 # Prevent Direct Access to files

 Order deny, allow
 Deny from all

After that, your files, the types of which are listed in the settings, will not be allowed to be viewed by strangers.

After installation, BE SURE to enter the store settings, AND SAVE THEM by checking the configuration line of bot names!