內容簡介
Hopcount Click Tracking 外掛可記錄訪客點擊您文章和頁面中的外部及聯盟連結的次數，並在 wp-admin 中顯示總計。它不會重定向或隱藏連結，保持真實的目的地 URL，符合搜尋引擎和聯盟計畫的要求。
【主要功能】
• 每個連結的每小時點擊計數
• 支援自定義報告範圍和過濾器
• 儀表板小工具顯示熱門連結
• 內建的濫用保護機制
• 簡單的資料匯出功能
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原文外掛簡介
Hopcount Click Tracking records how often visitors click the outbound and affiliate links in your posts and pages, and shows the totals in wp-admin. It does this without redirecting or cloaking anything: your links keep their real destination URLs, which search engines and affiliate programme terms both prefer.
What it stores
Hourly click counts per link. That is the whole data model: no per-click rows, no IP addresses, no user agents, no referrers, no user IDs, no cookies.
Which post each link appeared in, the destination URL and its host, and the link text (used as an automatic label).
There is nothing to anonymise and nothing to disclose in a privacy policy beyond “aggregate click counts are kept”.
How it works
When a post renders, eligible outbound links get a short server-generated token attribute. Links to your own site (and any hosts you list as internal) are skipped.
A small deferred script (about 700 bytes compressed) sends a beacon to a REST endpoint when a link is activated, including middle-click and keyboard activation.
The endpoint resolves the token and increments the hourly counter.
Because the token lives in the rendered HTML, the plugin keeps working behind WP Rocket, WP Super Cache, Cloudflare APO and similar full-page caches. Cached page views cost zero database queries; only the click itself reaches PHP.
Reporting
Report screen with date presets or a custom range, host filter, search by post title or destination, summary cards and CSV export.
Labels screen to give any destination URL a friendly name.
Dashboard widget with the top links for today, yesterday, 7, 30 or 90 days.
Status screen showing schema, cron and rate-limiter health.
Operations
Bounded retention: hourly rows older than the configured window (default 24 months) are pruned daily.
Layered abuse protection: the endpoint is POST-only and token-validated, an optional built-in per-IP limiter runs on your persistent object cache, and the documentation recommends a CDN or WAF rate-limiting rule.
Uninstall keeps your data unless you opt in to deletion.
Two filters let you grant report and label access to editors or authors.
Compared with redirect-based link plugins
Redirect or “cloaking” plugins route every click through your server and typically store one row per click. This plugin keeps links as real hrefs, records aggregates only, and adds no PHP work to cached page views.
