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Contact form submissions are easy to count, but a tap on a phone number or an email link leaves no trace in your dashboard.<\/p>\n\n<p>ClickTrace fixes that. Once activated, it automatically tracks every click on tel: (phone) links and mailto: (email) links across your site, with zero configuration required. You can also add custom links, like a booking button or WhatsApp link, and track them separately with their own name.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Key Features<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Automatic tracking of phone number clicks<\/li>\n<li>Automatic tracking of email link clicks<\/li>\n<li>Add unlimited custom links to track (buttons, booking links, WhatsApp, etc)<\/li>\n<li>View stats for today, yesterday, last 7 days, this month and last month<\/li>\n<li>Month-over-month percentage comparison<\/li>\n<li>See which page each click happened on<\/li>\n<li>Approximate visitor location (city and country) per click<\/li>\n<li>Full click log with page, link, location and timestamp<\/li>\n<li>Export all data to CSV<\/li>\n<li>Simple shortcode to display the stats dashboard on any page<\/li>\n<li>Mobile responsive dashboard<\/li>\n<li>No coding required, works with any WordPress theme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>How It Works<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>After activation, phone and email link clicks are tracked automatically. To view your stats, create a page and add the shortcode below:<\/p>\n\n<pre><code>[clicktrace]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n<p>This displays a full dashboard with stats broken down by time period, plus a sidebar to filter by link type.<\/p>\n\n<p>To track a custom link, go to the ClickTrace settings page in your WordPress admin, add the link's name and exact URL, and it will appear as its own filter in your dashboard.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>Who Is This For<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>ClickTrace is built for local businesses and service providers where phone calls matter as much as, or more than, contact form submissions: taxi and transport companies, restaurants, trades and repair services, clinics, and any business relying on click-to-call.<\/p>\n\n<h3>External services<\/h3>\n\n<p>This plugin connects to two third-party IP geolocation services to determine the approximate city and country of a visitor when they click a tracked link (tel:, mailto:, or a custom tracked link). This only happens at the moment of a click, not on every page view.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>FreeIPAPI<\/strong> (primary lookup service)\nThe visitor's IP address is sent to freeipapi.com to retrieve city and country data.\nService: https:\/\/freeipapi.com\nPrivacy Policy: https:\/\/freeipapi.com\/privacy\/<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>ip-api.com<\/strong> (fallback lookup service, used only if FreeIPAPI does not return a result, and only for IPv4 addresses)\nThe visitor's IP address is sent to ip-api.com to retrieve city and country data.\nService: https:\/\/ip-api.com\nPrivacy Policy: https:\/\/ip-api.com\/docs\/legal<\/p>\n\n<p>No other visitor data (name, email, browsing history) is sent to these services beyond the IP address of the click event.<\/p>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<ol>\n<li>Upload the clicktrace folder to the \/wp-content\/plugins\/ directory, or install directly through the WordPress Plugins screen<\/li>\n<li>Activate the plugin through the \"Plugins\" screen in WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Go to ClickTrace in your WordPress admin menu to configure custom tracked links (phone and email tracking work automatically, no setup needed)<\/li>\n<li>Create a new page and add the shortcode [clicktrace] to display your stats dashboard<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<dl>\n<dt id=\"does%20this%20track%20phone%20and%20email%20clicks%20automatically%3F\"><h3>Does this track phone and email clicks automatically?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes. As soon as you activate the plugin, all tel: and mailto: links on your site are tracked with no additional configuration.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"can%20i%20track%20a%20specific%20button%20or%20link%20that%20isn%27t%20a%20phone%20or%20email%20link%3F\"><h3>Can I track a specific button or link that isn't a phone or email link?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes. Go to ClickTrace settings in your WordPress admin, add the link's exact URL and a name for it, and it will be tracked separately from your general stats.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20this%20slow%20down%20my%20website%3F\"><h3>Does this slow down my website?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>No. The tracking script is lightweight and loads asynchronously. It does not affect your page load speed in any meaningful way.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"where%20do%20i%20see%20the%20click%20stats%3F\"><h3>Where do I see the click stats?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Add the [clicktrace] shortcode to any page in WordPress. That page will display your full stats dashboard.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"is%20visitor%20location%20data%20accurate%3F\"><h3>Is visitor location data accurate?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Location is estimated from the visitor's IP address and shows city and country level accuracy. It is not exact GPS location.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"does%20this%20work%20with%20any%20wordpress%20theme%3F\"><h3>Does this work with any WordPress theme?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes. ClickTrace works independently of your theme and does not require any specific theme features.<\/p><\/dd>\n<dt id=\"can%20i%20export%20the%20data%3F\"><h3>Can I export the data?<\/h3><\/dt>\n<dd><p>Yes. 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