Why is Piwik better than the competition?

This presentation will describe why Piwik, the open source web analytics software, can be a better alternative than the other web analytics tools available (google analytics, clicky, etc.).

This presentation illustrates 5 important key features of Piwik:

  1. Open APIs
  2. Plugins Architecture
  3. Data abstraction layer
  4. Customizable dashboard
  5. Innovative User Interface

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 ; category Documentation, Meta ; RSS comments.

9 Responses to “Why is Piwik better than the competition?”

  1. WayFarer Says:
    February 13th, 2008 at 2:45 pm

    I am user of phpMyVisites with 50+ sites setup.
    Currently I have troubles with stats archives. (Archiving process takes long times and overloads server (mysql))
    Are this problem will be solved in piwik?

  2. Matthieu Says:
    February 16th, 2008 at 3:37 pm

    Actually phpmyvisites is working on installation with 20,000+ sites registered. The tip is to use a crontab to archive your stats http://www.phpmyvisites.us/faq/crontab-launch-automatically-statistics-archiving-process-every-62.html

    Piwik is currently still alpha and we are testing it on med to high traffic websites, but is not ready yet for production use on high traffic websites. The roadmap says that it will be ready by mid 2008.

  3. Sajal Kayan » Piwik the Google Analytics Killer! Says:
    February 19th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    [...] friendly. The idea seems to be to make an Open Source alternative to Google Analytics and the advantages seems to be many. Piwik is the new version of phpMyVisites and is supported by OpenAds (a very [...]

  4. Webseo >> Código abierto para el análisis web Says:
    February 25th, 2008 at 12:27 pm

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  5. Sajal Kayan Says:
    February 25th, 2008 at 7:51 pm

    using piwik alpha on 3 sites.
    for me piwik seems to load up mysql to 100% while generating reports for 2 sites (2k and 15k UIP/day)
    for the smaller site with 50 to 300 UIP/day piwik runs smoothly.
    is there some maintainance script or something to be run regularly?

  6. Jose Gonzalez Says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    I’m running one server with Plesk control panel. Have you got a plan to integrate piwik with any comercial product?

  7. Matthieu Says:
    February 26th, 2008 at 8:24 pm

    Sajal,
    Piwik is not yet optimized for medium to high traffic websites as it is still in alpha stage. Before the next beta version we are going to improve performances on medium to high traffic websites and it shall work better.

    Jose,
    Integrating Piwik in other products, thanks to piwik APIs and modular architecture, is quite easy and straightforward. We will soon release an example of integration (I think with Wordpress).

  8. An Open Source Alternative to Google Analytics is on the Rise | Inspired Geek Says:
    March 18th, 2008 at 11:38 am

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  9. Anthon Says:
    May 14th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

    Anyone look at subspacetracker.com? It’s another web analytics package that you can host.

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