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Everyone can see who’s visiting the site, what pages they are visiting, more or less as it happens (or, within 10-20 seconds, given HTTP).
To see the recent visitors, you have to go to a separate page on the site. That page can display relatively verbose and detailed information. To update the content, either refresh or possibly use some AJAX to add new entries.
For every page, display a list of user also reading this page (or users who were reading the page recently).
A list of pages that were most recently served, showing a fixed number of “most recently read” pages.
There is some Java, JavaScript and Flash software that allows you to display a chat window on the page. Every user that enters the site (or specific page) and has relevant technology available in his browser automatically joins this chat, can post messages and see messages posted by others.
| status | wiki engines |
|---|---|
| Implemented | Oddmuse |
| Developing | - |
| Intend to Develop | - |
| Considering | - |
| Rejected | - |
User privacy – users don’t expect to be watched, and can be annoyed or even scared to see they are. In many countries you need to obtain explicit agreement of the user to publish this kind of information.
Recognizing users – if the user has entered his name or logged in, you can display his name, but what to display otherwise? IP number or host name? Session identifier? Just Anonymous?