You will find your click reports on your WordPress admin area navigating to the ShortLinks Pro menu -> Clicks.
In Clicks, you can view detailed statistics about clicks received on your links. Every time a user clicks, we collect useful data to help you better understand your audience.
This provides a visual overview of total and unique clicks on your links, organized by date.
Data collected
Each time a user clicks on one of your links, a set of relevant data is automatically recorded. This information is collected to give you a detailed view of user behavior and the overall performance of your links. The following data points are displayed as part of each click event:
- IP: The public IP address from which the click originated. Useful for geolocation and security analysis.
- Date: Date and time of the click.
- URI: The specific URI path that was accessed during the click
- Target URL: The final destination URL that the shortlink redirects to.
- Redirect Type: The HTTP redirect method used.
- Referrer: The referring URL
- Parameters: UTM parameters included in the link.
- Country: The country of origin based on IP geolocation.
- Browser: Data on which browser was used (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, etc.).
- OS (Operating System): Shows the OS used by the user (Windows, macOS, Android, iOS, etc.).
- Device: Detects if the click came from a mobile, tablet, or desktop.
- Bot: Indicates whether the click was likely generated by a bot or automated system.
- Shortlink: The shortlink that was clicked.
Filter by date
You can also customize the date range using the filter in the top-right corner to analyze your link performance over a specific period.
You can filter the data by:
- Current week.
- Past week.
- Current month.
- Past month.
- Current year.
- Past year.
- Custom period.
Filter by metric
In addition, you can also filter the metrics by the specific metrics of you choice simply by clicking them! Just click an IP to filter the metrics by that IP, or click in one of the listed countries to filter by that country. Actually you can filter by:
- IP: To see clicks from that IP.
- Country: To see clicks from visitors of that country.
- Browser: To see clicks of visitors using that browser.
- OS (Operating System): To see clicks of visitors using that OS.
- Device: To see clicks of visitors using that device.
- ShortLink: To see clicks to that Shortlink.
Prevent bots and exclude IP addresses
ShortLinks Pro includes settings to let you exclude from tracking certain IP addresses and bots to help you have reliable tracking analytics.
You will find those settings on your WordPress admin area navigating to the ShortLinks Pro menu -> Settings -> Click Tracking tab -> Rules section.
Clicks clean up
ShortLinks Pro also lets you clean up your old links clicks automatically or manually to help you keep your database clean and optimized.