ebrao_globe_statistics

ebrao_globe_statistics records anonymous daily visit counts by country and displays the results on an interactive globe.

Features include:

• Interactive rotating globe with drag controls.
• Configurable colors, grid density, rotation speed, focus country, and flight paths.
• Adjustable reporting period through shortcode attributes.
• Standalone aggregate statistics with no dependency on another analytics plugin.
• Locally bundled visualization libraries and map data.

The plugin stores only the date, a two-letter country code, and an aggregate counter. It does not store IP addresses. Country detection requires one of these server request headers:

• CF-IPCountry (Cloudflare)
• X-Country-Code
• GEOIP_COUNTRY_CODE

Use [visitor_globe] to display the globe.

Optional shortcode attributes:

• height: Globe height in pixels. The default is 540.
• days: Number of recent calendar days to include. The default is 30.

Example:

[visitor_globe height="540" days="30"]

The plugin bundles D3, TopoJSON Client, and World Atlas data locally. It does not contact a third-party CDN when rendering the globe.

Third-party source code:

• D3: https://github.com/d3/d3
• TopoJSON Client: https://github.com/topojson/topojson-client
• World Atlas: https://github.com/topojson/world-atlas

Privacy

The plugin does not send visitor data to the plugin author or any external service. It does not store IP addresses, user agents, URLs, or user identifiers. A request to the site’s own WordPress REST API increments an aggregate counter containing only the WordPress-site date and the country code supplied by the host. Logged-in users are excluded. Browser session storage is used to avoid duplicate counts during the same browser session.