just go to joomla global configuration at the backend -> server, and set error reporting to SIMPLE.

Reason it was set to "other than simple" is that I am still trying to get it to actually show up correctly in the backend. In System - Content Statistics I do have "use IP Geolocation" set to on and API key (ipinfodb.com) has my key entered but from the backend its never shown anything for the Country State City fields. I self host and curl is available and have another domain on the same box that uses ipinfodb.com for some stuff and that works but this never has for some reason.

first of, double check that the API key is correctly inputted (no blank spaces, etc). is it possible that ipinfodb is blocking your server?

I am doing a straight copy and paste from their site and verifying that there are no missing characters nor additional spaces so I am quite confident that is not my issue. As to if they are somehow filtering my server requests, that I am less certain of and off the top of my head I don't know of a way to verify or refute that they are getting through. Which essentially is why I had enabled the development mode to begin with.

I would like to add though that enabling a second method such as a local copy of maxmind's IP DB would resolve all those issues and while results may not benefit from DB updates on the IP database's master copy they at least would resolve this issue and they offer a fully free downloadable version with monthly updates.

Happy to grant you backend access though if you care to test it out. Have verified that url_fopen is enabled also. Almost attached results of phpinfo() till I remembered this is publicly accessable.

sure please grant me access (FTP too, otherwise I can't check the code).

to know if your IP has been blocked, basically you just need to ask them