Why is Piwik better than the competition?

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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 by Piwik team on Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 ; category Documentation, Meta ; RSS comments.

27 Comments to “Why is Piwik better than the competition?”

  1. WayFarer Says:

    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:

    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:

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  5. Sajal Kayan Says:

    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:

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

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  8. Mike Landis Says:

    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.

  9. Matthieu Says:

    Mike, selecting the user on a maps and see his path through the website is something that is high priority on our roadmap.

  10. gifts Says:

    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!

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  12. fine art Says:

    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

  13. Matthieu Says:

    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!

  14. Edward Webb Says:

    @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.

  15. Jon Says:

    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?

  16. Aceo Art Says:

    There is obviously a lot to know about this subject. Im only a learner. Some interesting points made there.

  17. DarkWolf Says:

    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).

  18. Tom Says:

    Google Analytics is hard to beat, but I will test it.

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  20. anthon Says:

    re: PDO. Recent releases of Piwik have added support for the mysqli extension.

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    good post, really :D

  22. seo sydney Says:

    downloading and test it looks very good

  23. agri dagi Says:

    Mike, selecting the user on a maps and see his path through the website is something that is high priority on our roadmap…

  24. pandora Says:

    written about piwik in polish, italian, english, spanish, french, german yesterday!

  25. Tina Says:

    I work with Piwik trouble free, best web analytics software I ever used…

  26. Attorney Says:

    I agree with Tina. I've found Piwik to be head and shoulders better than any other web analytics software that I've tried, and I've tried quite a few.

  27. drill Says:

    You're a incredibly smart person!

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