Promising Open Source Web Analytics Software – Piwik
March 14th, 2008 | 6,589 Views RSS Feed
A latest Open Source web analytics Software released under GPL license, Piwik can be called a neat and developer friendly tool. Though similar in functionality to Google Analytics, Piwik has many features. It is the new version of phpMyVisites and is supported by OpenAds.
Some of the fine features of this Open Source Software include:
- Open APIs
- Plugins Architecture
- Data abstraction layer
- Customizable dashboard
- Innovative User Interface
Piwik like Google Analytics uses javascript to collect users data and is not dependent on the web servers access.log file. Therefore, it completely eliminates the chances of any bad bot activity to be mistaken for a user. It can also be hosted independently on a separate server. Another advantage of Piwik besides it being open source and API friendly, you can further tweak it a bit, to show refers from Google Search, Google News Search, Google Blog Search as separate search engines. And all of this in real time.
Watch this video to see why Piwik is better than Google Analytics, clicky and its other competitions:
Certainly, it has the potential to be the world tool for the people who have privacy concerns with google analytics.
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November 1st, 2008 at 01:43
There are so many Web Analytics software now. And it make me confuse which to use?
I think it is great if you write a comparison between these softwares.
November 9th, 2008 at 22:22
i think it's better to use google analytics
November 9th, 2008 at 22:26
Me too, i use google analytic
November 19th, 2009 at 13:58
Idon' know this tool, I use google analitivs but if you use Wordpres there are many wordpress plugin for tracking your blog
November 28th, 2009 at 19:03
I've tried Piwik before. It works well, but it's too unwieldy to use.
December 17th, 2009 at 12:19
This is actually useful for those who don't want to use Google for EVERYTHING!
http://www.megacheapphones.com/manufacturers/htc/...
Is it only client side (script)?
December 17th, 2009 at 12:24
Get Clicky is another one a lot of people seem to be switching to from GA… analytics is not what it was before.. you need to measure all types of stuff now.. like shortened url clicks, tweets, etc..
http://www.squidoo.com/best-abs-best-ways-burn-be...
December 31st, 2009 at 15:58
I've never tried this before. I'll have to check it out to see if I like analytics or this better.
January 7th, 2010 at 19:39
Good information in this post. thanks for the read.
January 12th, 2010 at 10:39
A userful resource however I am not sure why you would use this over Google Analytics? Although saying this, one of your commenters may have already answered that question – "For thoose that dont want to use Google for eveything!"
January 14th, 2010 at 15:43
I really like statcounter. I've used it for years, and it gives me all the information I need
January 18th, 2010 at 18:14
thanks for the info, i use histat, or sometime Alexa but google analitic is the best
January 19th, 2010 at 22:56
That looks like a great tool. I need to go try this one out now. I really like Google though, it's the easiest for me to use.
January 22nd, 2010 at 16:25
Hi, welcome to new analitycs programs, I think googleanalitycis is very good but not perfect, and think that it's better that big G doesn't have all our surfing data!