In the Visits log help section (click help button at top right corner), we provide the following information: “Masked: The actual page content is not being displayed. (not available in the Minimal Engine Management option)”
On the plugin’s settings page, if you choose “Block Engine Management Minimal,” as indicated in the help section, the Mask engine is disabled. The choice is yours.
Our suggestion:
For maximum protection, if you’re using the free version, select Conservative. If you have the premium version, select “Maximum Block.”
Real visitors may briefly appear as Masked for around 1 or 2 seconds, depending on your server’s speed, before being marked as human and allowed to view the content. They will generate at least two entries in the log, with additional entries if they visit more pages. This only occurs one time during their initial site visit (logged as Masked). Bots, on the other hand, are always marked as Masked unless you choose to whitelist them. This only needs to be done once for each IP. On the plugin’s dashboard page, you’ll find a tab labeled “whitelist” where you can do this using string or IP, with some bots already included by default, such as Facebook, but you can remove that by edit the list.
On the visitors log page, you can further manage visitors by adding them to the blacklist or whitelist by IP using the available buttons.
In summary, as explained in the Visitors Log page help section:
Access:
- Masked: The actual page content is not being displayed.
- Denied: With response code 403.
- OK: The page content is being displayed.
On the plugin’s settings page, if you choose “Block Engine Management Minimal,” as mentioned in the help section, the Mask engine is disabled.
