Read delivery evidence, recognized crawler observations, and privacy controls correctly.

How it works

Analytics recording is opt-in. When enabled, Cybermaps records registered endpoint requests that execute WordPress/PHP plus crawler-signature and conservative crawler-candidate visits to ordinary content. Diagnostic probes sent by Cybermaps status pages are excluded.

Quick Setup’s activity-insights choice enables anonymized logging for 30 days and selects dynamic delivery. Its lightweight choice disables logging and favors static delivery; existing log history is not cleared by that choice.

The classifier distinguishes:

a claimed registered crawler signature;
a conservative unregistered-crawler candidate;
another automated client;
a browser or manual client;
a missing User-Agent;
an unknown client; and
a logged-in WordPress user.

Crawler names are matches against a self-reported User-Agent product token, not verified provider network identities. Product-token matching avoids classifying a bot name that appears only inside a comment or documentation URL.

Logged-out observations can include time, path, endpoint, response status, method, accepted media family, identity class, normalized User-Agent, site-specific pseudonymous requester key, resolved-IP source, IP-storage mode, and the resolved address. IP anonymization is enabled by default and stores an IPv4 /24 or IPv6 /64 network. Administrators can instead retain full resolved addresses for future rows. Changing this choice does not rewrite existing history.

Logged-in observations store the numeric WordPress user ID and omit IP, requester key, and User-Agent. WordPress personal-data export and erasure tools cover these rows, and user deletion removes that user’s authenticated observations.

ClientIPResolver uses the immediate peer by default. It accepts CF-Connecting-IP only when that peer belongs to an official Cloudflare network. The general trusted-proxy settings trusted_proxy_header and trusted_proxy_cidrs are both off by default; when enabled, the selected forwarded-IP header is trusted only from the configured CIDR ranges. Cybermaps never trusts arbitrary forwarded headers and still exposes cybermaps_client_ip_resolution for integrations that validate another proxy boundary.

Retention accepts 1–365 days and is enforced by a daily cleanup event. Discovery Analytics can export or clear the stored history. Physical files, CDNs, web-server rules, and full-page caches answer before PHP and therefore cannot appear in these statistics.

Local 60-second request limits protect discovery routes by matched crawler, installation-salted client identifier, cost tier, and minute. REST search uses an installation-salted one-way identifier derived from the resolved IP; neither the raw address nor query is stored in that rate-limit transient.