I am always looking for great plugins, but admittedly there are thousands and I only check them out as I have a need.  I was looking for a plugin that could tell me how many visitors were online at any given time.  I found that feature (and MUCH more) in the plugin called WASSUP!

It tracks visitors in real time, seriously … it refreshes itself every 5 minutes or so … right in your dashboard!  Very fun!  There’s a fun widget that you can configure and place in your sidebar that tells those visiting you how many visitors are online now (you can see this in action at www.AFrogInMySoup.com on the lower left sidebar).

I got a lot more than I bargained for with this plugin and it does quite a bit more than I mentioned here.  I highly recommend it to anyone that has a busy blog or would like to keep better track of those popping in to look over your wordpress blog.