Analytics shows where your visitors are by country, region and city. Weesify works this out on its own server with a location database. Visitor addresses are used only for the lookup and are never stored.
What you see
- Countries, regions and cities in Insights › Analytics and on each link's analytics.
- A location is approximate (to about 11 km). No street address is ever stored.
- Visits that can't be placed show as Unknown.
How a visit is placed
Weesify tries these in order:
- City database on the server (the most accurate).
- Cloudflare edge, when the site is behind Cloudflare (country only).
- Browser time zone, as a rough guess when nothing else is known.
For the server owner: install the location database
- Sign in to the Console and open Console › Analytics › Location data.
- Under Settings › Source, choose a source:
- DB-IP IP to City Lite: free, with no account or key. Updated monthly. Weesify adds the credit line DB-IP asks for.
- MaxMind GeoLite2 City: free with a MaxMind account. Enter your account ID and licence key. The key is stored encrypted.
- Choose Download location data. The file is checked before it replaces the current one, so a bad download never breaks anything.
- Leave Keep it up to date on. The scheduler downloads a new file every 28 days.
Tips
- How well visits are placed shows how many recent visits have a known country and city.
- Fill recent visits places the last 30 days' unknown visits from the same visitor's placed visit that day.
- If something goes wrong after an update, choose Use the previous file.