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Promising Open Source Web Analytics Software - Piwik

March 14th, 2008 | 2,951 Views RSS Feed



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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.

Promising Open Source Web Analytics Software - Piwik

Promising Open Source Web Analytics Software - Piwik

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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