IPStack requests

  • Hi, I really like your plugin. Thanks a lot.

    I just added the weather functionality and it works great my only problem is, that I created a free IPStack.com account with 10.000 requests/month. This is way more than users I have on the side but the limit is exceeded after about 5 days. Is it possible, that your plugin makes a request on each “click” or “impression” or something similar? Would it be possible to store the user’s IP in a cookie so that the requests to IPStack are limited to only for each user?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    Hi,

    Currently, collected weather data is cached into WordPress for 1 hour, after that amount of time, weather conditions can change thus I do not think it is wise to increase this cache time.

    What I could think of is that perhaps many bots are crawling your site, also executing the IPStack requests.

    Thread Starter simonge

    (@simonge)

    Thanks for the quick response.

    The weather data ha no issues. the caching seems to work, since most page visitors are from the same area.

    About the IPStack requests, Google Analytics seems to track only a few visitors/day, is the Geo data requested once / visitor or for each request?
    Do you have a suggestion on how I can check if my pages is crawled and maybe even how to prevent this?

    Thanks in advance.

    Plugin Author Thomas Geiger

    (@duracelltomi)

    Google Analytics filters out most bot visits, so even if there are some or many bot scans, you might see little traffic in GA.

    You usually do not want to exclude bot, especially not Google bots. They scan your site for content indexing or if you are running paid ads, they are scanning the site whether it is relevant to the users and not harmful.

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