How to Test Whether Loggle Is Working

After installing Loggle, it is worth two minutes to confirm everything is recording. Work through these checks in order — each builds on the one before.

Check 1: Is the plugin running?

1. Go to Plugins → Installed Plugins.
2. Confirm Loggle is listed and active.
3. Confirm a Loggle item appears in your admin sidebar.

If the menu is missing, you are either not an administrator or the plugin is not active.

Check 2: Is a visit recorded?

This is the most important test.

1. Open a private or incognito browser window. This matters — you must be logged out.
2. Visit your website’s home page.
3. Click through to two or three other pages.
4. Return to your admin area and open Loggle.
5. Select the Today range.

You should see at least one visitor and several page views.

Why a private window? Logged-in administrators are not tracked by default. Testing while logged in will always show nothing, and that is correct behaviour rather than a fault.

Check 3: Does the live widget see you?

This is the fastest confirmation of all, because it updates within a minute.

1. Keep your site open in a private window.
2. Go to Dashboard in your admin area.
3. Find the Loggle widget.

It shows visitors active in the last 30 minutes. With your private window open, that number should be at least one.

Check 4: Is the source recorded correctly?

Loggle should identify where a visit came from, not just that it happened.

1. In a private window, visit your site with a test campaign tag on the end of the address, for example:
   https://yoursite.com/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=test
2. Open the Loggle dashboard and select Today.
3. In the Sources card, check the Channel tab — you should see Email.
4. Check the Campaign tab — you should see test.

If both appear, channel detection is working.

Check 5: Is revenue recorded?

Only relevant if you sell something.

For WooCommerce

1. Place a test order and take it through to a completed payment.
2. Open the Loggle dashboard on the Today range.
3. Check the Revenue figure.

Remember that Loggle records an order when payment completes. An order still marked pending will not appear yet.

For Freemius

Confirm your keys are saved and the product you are testing is ticked in settings, then make a test purchase through your normal checkout.

Testing with WP-CLI

If you have command-line access, these prove things quickly and precisely.

Check the plugin’s health

wp loggle status

Shows whether the three tables exist, how many rows each holds, and whether the daily cleanup task is scheduled.

Record a test visit without a browser

wp loggle hit --page=/test --referrer=https://chatgpt.com/

This runs a visit through the real tracking process and prints the result. It is the quickest way to confirm channel detection — the output should show the AI channel and chatgpt.com as the referrer.

See your totals

wp loggle summary --range=today

Prints the same numbers the dashboard shows. If these match your dashboard, reporting is healthy.

Check who is on the site now

wp loggle realtime

How long until data appears?

• The live widget — within a minute.
• The dashboard — immediately on refresh. Loggle does not cache reports, so what you see is always current.
• Revenue — as soon as payment completes.

If you have waited a few minutes and still see nothing, work through the troubleshooting guide.

Tips

• Test from your phone on mobile data. It is a genuinely different visitor and rules out anything odd about your own browser.
• Ask a colleague to visit while you watch the live widget.
• Turn off admin tracking again if you switched it on for testing.

Next steps

Everything working? Learn to read your numbers in Understanding the Loggle Dashboard. Something wrong? Start with Common Loggle Errors and Fixes.