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:
- Open APIs
- Plugins Architecture
- Data abstraction layer
- Customizable dashboard
- Innovative User Interface
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This entry was posted by Matthieu on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 ; category Documentation, Meta ; RSS comments.
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February 13th, 2008 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?
February 16th, 2008 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.
February 19th, 2008 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 [...]
February 25th, 2008 12:27 pm
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February 25th, 2008 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?
February 26th, 2008 3:54 pm
I'm running one server with Plesk control panel. Have you got a plan to integrate piwik with any comercial product?
February 26th, 2008 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).
March 18th, 2008 11:38 am
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July 14th, 2008 1:44 am
The thing I am constantly wishing for is the ability to drill through a map to a user and through the user to the pages they viewed, in the order they visited them (including dates and time), or drill through a page and see all users that visited that page and when. It's my biggest frustration with Google Analytics. I hope you'll similar functionality high on your priority list.
July 14th, 2008 3:41 am
I refined and expanded my thinking a bit …
I'd like be able to switch any geo-coded view from list to map and vice versa, just as chart views can be presented as tables, signals (where time is involved), bars, and pies.
Once that was in place, I'd like to be able to link through a particular user on a map/list to display the path any given user took through the site (including dates and time for each page).
I'd like to be able to map/list content density, i.e. how many pages are being read by users in a particular geographic location.
I'd like to be able to generate a map/list of visitors for any given page.
July 17th, 2008 1:00 am
Mike, selecting the user on a maps and see his path through the website is something that is high priority on our roadmap.
July 24th, 2008 12:57 pm
Wow, this is totally excellent. I never knew there was an Opensource alternative. I'm totally stoked that there is one. I sent the link immediately to a friend of mine as well. I'm going to spread the word! It's about time someone made an opensource alternative to Google Analytics – I always wondered to myself if there was one and now, at last, I find myself stumbling across this website and seeing all about it!
October 23rd, 2008 12:10 am
[...] Piwik site has a great presentation detailing the 5 reasons they are better than the [...]
November 7th, 2008 10:30 am
Hi Matthieu,
Any updates on Piwik? Is it still in beta stage or alpha version now? When will you also release the integration information for WP?
Regards,
John
November 24th, 2008 12:18 pm
fine art, Piwik is still in beta stage, but we are going fast and we hope to be stable in the next few months. Please check out the blog, and the last version to see how much Piwik has changed over the last few weeks!
November 26th, 2008 1:03 pm
Sorry..
The fact that this relies on PDO extensions is a MAJOR problem for me. I've tried installing on two separate hosting companies. One flat out can't install PDO because they are using HSphere and the other tried to recompile and it caused grief.
I'd love to use this, but using a set of libraries that aren't stock on the major hosting companies is going to prevent this software from getting any major traction.
Just my two cents from the gravel pit.
December 17th, 2008 11:37 pm
@Dave
I don't think you can count out all major hosting providers based on your experience with two.
GoDaddy supports this application without issue.
Also I spoke with a person on DreamHost who also does not have issue.
Together I imagine the two make a large percentage of the hosting population.
February 19th, 2009 3:32 pm
We are testing Piwik now. Is there a more detailed description of it somewhere? What is stored in the database, can we add parameters, how do we make new views etc?
May 14th, 2009 8:42 am
I don
May 17th, 2009 10:44 am
There is obviously a lot to know about this subject. Im only a learner. Some interesting points made there.
June 19th, 2009 12:06 pm
I'm with AlterVista (best free Italian Hosting) and i don't have pdo_mysql.
Even i can't use (or test) piwik :(
Actually i continue to use php-stats (real old but already the best statistics script).
July 7th, 2009 9:23 am
Google Analytics is hard to beat, but I will test it.
October 16th, 2009 1:02 pm
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October 30th, 2009 11:31 pm
It could be a great tool, but really you have to realize that some host companies do not install PDO… so we can't all use Piwik. It's a pity because it really seems like a great tool. I then installed phpMyvisits on the web sites that don't support PDO and it's work like a charm. Too bad you drop casual MySQL connection support like in phpMyvisits.
November 18th, 2009 6:59 pm
re: PDO. Recent releases of Piwik have added support for the mysqli extension.
November 22nd, 2009 11:55 am
Thank you I will try this. Hope it will be great one.
February 7th, 2010 6:05 pm
good post, really :D
July 4th, 2010 6:58 pm
I am happy. THX
July 30th, 2010 5:50 am
downloading and test it looks very good
August 7th, 2010 5:12 pm
Piwik is hands down better than any other analytics programs I've used so far. Comparing these to Google Analytics and other similar stats programs, there's not much competition.
Thanks for posting the video, very thorough information.
August 25th, 2010 6:16 am
We use piwik and we are very satisfied too. Thank you.
September 3rd, 2010 7:12 am
I love open source. Piwik is the number one Analytics software even better then the paid ones.