It would be nice to fix this short term but I presume it will end in rethinking the visitor log and how it is displayed today. The current version of Visitor Log doesn't work with many columns as can be seen here and we waste a lot of time as eg there's often a lot of space below the "Date" and "Visitors" column. Moving to Piwik 3.0.0 for now as it would be nice to have a better visitor log by then but we could also move to Mid term @mattab

My previous idea to fix this issue was to: Make Popovers slightly wider #7517

I'm not sure it would fix this particular issue though, as on the screenshot I can see there is more space to the right yet it is not used. Maybe we could force the first column to have some min-width?

I tried (and failed) to make the .details class show above all other elements with z-index, but that did not work. I guess there's something else in the CSS overriding it or it simply doesn't work in tables.

#7517 to make the popover rather wider wouldn't solve this issue and would be rather a hack. And what would happens if someone has a small screen? We do have this problem even when it is not displayed in a popover (then 4 columns are used).

As said I think we just need to rethink how it is displayed. Eg we could always use only 2 columns with gives everything more space and we will maybe have less whitespace. There might be even better solutions.

Even when having a screen with 1350px width the date is not fully visible. I think this shows pretty clearly that this design needs to be revised.

Sure the design is wrong. Maybe we can remove the Referrer column and display the referrer info below the date/ip/provider lines (and above any custom variables 'visit' scope lines)

edit: it's the case in the segmented Visitor Log popover

The issue lies with the css applied to the parent td rule; line: 7628

.dataTableVizVisitorLog table.dataTable .label {
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
text-overflow: ellipsis;

If you remove overflow: hidden it will show, but gets ugly fast.

I've removed the "Referrer URL" column and referrer information is now displayed below any custom variable and/or the datetime+Ip. Saves a lot of space and makes UI better.

it would be awesome to innovate and redesign our Visitor Log. There are some great tools for User intelligence such as: http://intercom.io/

In which issue will we handle the redesign of the visitor log? Shall we create a new one? The visitor log (and real time widget) are the most used features in Piwik. At least in Mobile app like 50% of the users only use this so it would be certainly worth investing some time to make it actually good, usable and pretty.

Yes let's create a new issue for the redesign and refresh of the feature of Real time visitor & usable User intelligence reports. There was also: Better Real Time reporting in Piwik #2439