Advanced Traffic Statistics: Live Radar & WAF Security 1.8.0 1.8.0

Transform your forum statistics into a security fortress.Advanced Traffic Statistics is no longer just a "Who's Online" widget. It has evolved into a comprehensive Traffic Intelligence & Web Application Firewall (WAF) that tracks visits, categorizes bot traffic with surgical precision, and actively protects your server from resource-draining scrapers, hackers, and AI crawlers.

Supports XenForo, Bob’s Article Management System (AMS), and Quiz System PRO.

🚨 NEW IN v1.8.0: LIVE TRAFFIC RADAR & NATIVE WAF Why just count bots when you can actively hunt them? We have introduced a real-time investigative command center to monitor and block threats instantly.

• [Privacy & GDPR] 100% Local Assets (No CDN): We have moved all external resources locally! The Interactive Map libraries (ECharts) and all country flag icons (SVGs) are now hosted directly on your server. The add-on makes zero external CDN requests, guaranteeing absolute privacy for your visitors and making your dashboard load instantly even if external networks go down.
• [Fix & Stability] Strict UTF-8 DB Enforcement: Fixed a critical MySQL query error [1366] caused by aggressive bots (e.g., Baidu) injecting malformed or non-UTF-8 characters into the User-Agent strings. The traffic logger now strictly sanitizes and enforces UTF-8 encoding on all incoming data before it hits your database, preventing query crashes.
• [Fix] Map Visibility Bug: Fixed a logic issue where the interactive map was not displaying for registered members and guests even when the correct viewing permissions were enabled.

NEW IN v1.7.9

• 🗺️ Global Live Threat Map: We have integrated a mesmerizing, fully animated interactive map right above your Live Radar. Watch in real-time as malicious bots, scrapers, and brute-force attempts are intercepted from around the world, visualized as red laser traces flying toward your server.
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  🤖 AI Traffic Analyzer: Added a new powerful prompt generator button. With a single click, the add-on compiles your structured real-time data (Threats, Scrapers, Bot Hits, Human vs Bot ratio) into an engineered prompt. You can easily paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to receive an immediate, professional cybersecurity audit and actionable firewall/robots.txt advice.
• 📥 Emergency CSV Export: Added an "Export CSV" button directly on the Live Traffic Radar. Instantly download a complete spreadsheet of the last connections (IPs, Geo, Threat Tags, User Agents, Target URLs) to easily forward malicious IPs to your hosting provider or network firewall in case of an ongoing attack.

NEW IN v1.7.6

• Live Traffic Radar: A real-time panel showing the last 150 forum accesses. Inspect IP, Country, Identity, Target URI, Hit volume, and Heuristic Trust Score.
• 1-Click IP Ban (Native Integration): Spotted an attacker or a fake User-Agent? Ban their IP address permanently with a single click. This action is integrated directly into XenForo's native core firewall (XF:IpMatch), blocking threats at the root before the page even loads.
• Smart Bot Training: Use the tactical [GOOD], [AI], and [BAD] buttons in the Radar to classify unknown bots. The new heuristic algorithm automatically extracts the clean "signature" of the bot (ignoring fake browser strings and version numbers) to create bulletproof universal blocking rules.
• AbuseIPDB Integration: Instantly check an IP's global reputation with one-click formatted links.
• Hybrid Measurement Engine: Demographic charts (trend, browsers, devices) now strictly use Unique IPs for realistic human proportions, while Security charts (blocked threats, maps) use Total Volume (Hits) to show the true scale of repelled attacks.

🛡️ ACTIVE DEFENSE SHIELDSWe have introduced a firewall-grade protection layer that saves massive amounts of CPU and RAM:

• AI Shield: Blocks Large Language Model scrapers (ChatGPT, GPTBot, Claude, Perplexity, CommonCrawl) from stealing and training on your community's unique content.
• Junk Shield: Automatically identifies and blocks aggressive commercial crawlers (Ahrefs, Semrush, MJ12), vulnerability scanners (SQLMap, Nmap), and script-kiddie tools (Python requests, Curl) that consume your bandwidth for zero return.
• Emergency Mode: A "Panic Button" to block ALL unknown bots instantly during a DDoS attempt or high-load anomaly.
• IP Whitelist: Define trusted IPs that bypass all security checks. Perfect for uptime monitors or admin access.

🤖 INTELLIGENT TRAFFIC CLASSIFICATIONWe rewrote the detection engine from scratch to distinguish between friend and foe:

• Authorized Crawlers (Green): Essential traffic like Google, Bing, and Yahoo is whitelisted.
• Social & Tech Bots (Allowed): We recognize WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, and Cloudflare bots to ensure link previews and services work perfectly.
• AI & LLM Scrapers (Purple): Identifies bots scraping data for AI training.
• Aggressive/Unknown Bots (Red): Unclassified traffic or known bad actors are flagged and can be blocked.

👁️ TRAFFIC INSIGHT DASHBOARDThe report page is a beautifully crafted Security Center:

• Real-Time Threat Counter: A prominent red indicator shows exactly how many malicious requests were blocked today.
• Health Score (A/B/C): An immediate grade evaluating the ratio between real humans and aggressive bots.
• Visual Badges & Top Blocked Chart: Spot threats in seconds with AI/BAD/UNK tags and horizontal bar charts highlighting the top 10 blocked bots.
• Cyber-Geography: Leveraging GeoIP integration (MaxMind or Cloudflare), map not just human users, but the exact origin of Bots and Threats.
• Community Pulse: A technical historical chart comparing Attachment Size (MB) and Attachment Count.

⚡ PERFORMANCE & UI/UX

• Ultra-Light Architecture: Heavy database tasks are handled by a dedicated background Cron process once a day. The sidebar widget only performs lightning-fast SELECT operations, completely eliminating database bottlenecks during peak hours.
• Smart Glass Mode: Charts support gorgeous transparency/blur effects, adapting seamlessly to dark backgrounds without conflicting with light/white themes.
• Foolproof Protection: Manual classification buttons auto-disable if a generic browser is detected (e.g., Chrome, Safari), preventing accidental bans of real human users.
• Public Navigation Link: Option to display a public stats link under the "Members" tab for those who prefer not to use the sidebar widget.

💎 PRO vs FREEThis add-on is free to use for basic demographic statistics. By purchasing a PRO License (via the link in options), you unlock the full power of the Active Defense:

• Enable Active Defense Shields (AI, Junk, Emergency)
• Access the Live Traffic Radar & 1-Click IP Ban system
• Unlock "Blur" tech stats (Devices, OS, Browsers, Server Load)
• Full Traffic Insight Health Score & Blocked Threat analytics

Demo Live: https://migratoria.it (Registration required to view the charts page)

Recommended Integration: Article Management System (AMS)​

To fully unlock the potential of this widget, we highly recommend integrating it with Bob's Article Management System (AMS).

While our add-on works perfectly as a standalone traffic counter for the forum, it offers native and built-in support for AMS. If AMS is detected on your system, the widget will automatically expand to include:

• Article Publishing Stats: Monitor the total number of professional articles published on your platform.
• Content Consumption Analysis: View real-time view counts specific to your article collection.
• Unified Traffic Overview: Display the combined total of forum and article views in a single, elegant interface.

This integration ensures that your editorial content gets the same statistical visibility as your forum discussions, offering a 360-degree view of your community engagement.