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Get traffic spike or drop notifications through email

Within the "Email reports" section of your website settings you can decide to enable traffic spike or drop notifications to be sent directly through email.

This will help notify you when your site has an unusually high or low volume of traffic.

Get traffic spike notifications via email

Set the current visitor threshold for the traffic spike notifications​

You need to set the "Current visitor threshold" for your traffic spike notifications and click on the "Save threshold" button. The default threshold is at 10 current visitors, but you can set it as low or as high as you want depending on your usual traffic numbers.

You will get the traffic spike notification when your site reaches the threshold you've set. You'll get the notification for an individual website no more than twice in a 24-hour period.

The email will include the number of current visitors and the top referral sources of current visitors.

All the stats are embedded directly into the email and there's no need to go to the Plausible Analytics website to view them. There are no attachments, no PDFs and no links to click on in the email either.

Set the unique visitor threshold for the traffic drop notifications​

You need to set the "12 hour visitor threshold" for your traffic drop notifications and click on the "Save threshold" button. The default threshold is at 1 unique visitor in the last 12 hours, but you can set it as high as you want depending on your usual traffic numbers.

You will get the traffic drop notification when your site falls below the threshold you've set. You'll get the notification for an individual website no more than twice in a 24-hour period.

Get traffic drop notifications via email

Set traffic spike or drop notifications to be sent to multiple recipients​

Traffic spike or drop notifications can be set to be sent to multiple recipients. Enable the notifications, add an individual recipient into the "Notification recipients" field and click on the "Add recipient" button.

You can set the notifications to be sent to as many people as you want. You can remove individual recipients or completely stop the notifications at any time.