Web analytics report – an altenation of Google Analytics

September 29th, 2008

Google analytics is great and it became so popular. The downsite of this analytic tool is not open source and no api to link (intergrate) with you own software. [ad]

Piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics

Piwik is different from the competition because:

  1. the features are built inside plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need. If you are a developer, you can easily build your own plugins!
  2. you own your data. Piwik being installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database and you can get all the statistics using open APIs (publishing the data in many formats: xml, json, php, csv)
  3. (NOW AVAILABLE!!!) the user interface is fully customizable, you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display, create the reports you want
  4. View the web analytics report on your own website.
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Give it a try

  • you can try the online demo that shows you the latest piwik release. Please note that all User Interface part is still in progress so don’t expect something big on this. This is the most visible part though :-)
  • to install Piwik, download the latest release, upload it on your webserver (you need at least PHP 5.1 and a Mysql database), and open your browser: the installation process is automatic and takes less than 5 minutes.

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