Official Piwik Blog

January '09

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Using the Piwik API and Google Spreadsheet to generate Excel-like custom reports

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This post is from a Guest Blogger Arthur Lee from branica.com You can say that I am a bit of an analytics freak since my background is financial and I typically work with analytical data and with spreadsheets. Now as a part-time webmaster, I find that using analytics is pretty important to optimize a site. [...]

November '08

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New version of Piwik! Why you should upgrade

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Today we are happy to release a new version of Piwik: 0.2.17. It includes more than 30 bug fixes and new features. See an online demo or Download the new version today!. The main changes are: more than 30 bug fixes (we fixed most of the open bugs!) you can publish your stats in widgets [...]

October '08

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Using the Piwik API and Adobe AIR: interesting use cases

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When you use Piwik, you own your web analytics data. All the data is stored in your database, and you can access it via the Piwik API (see an example of how to use the API). Some Piwik users are making interesting use of the API. We recently heard of two different projects that show [...]

February '08

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Piwik is delicious

Piwik had yesterday its most busy day ever: 2572 visits!! This is more than 15 times the average day. What happened? I’m not sure about the blog(s) that started it all, but it seems the articles on incubaweb and seoprofessional did spread the word about piwik worldwide; there were articles written about piwik in polish, [...]

February '08

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Piwik in the web analytics world – presentation

View Piwik presentation on slideshare Here is a presentation we did to present Piwik to an audience in a french engineering school. I gives a simple overview of what web analytics is measure analyze act piwik competitors (google analytics, clicky, etc.) why Piwik is better than the competition Open Apis Plugins architecture Powerful data abstraction [...]

January '08

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How to design an API: best practises, concepts, technical aspects

When I started to design Piwik I read a lot about APIs, software architecture, service oriented architecture (soa), etc. I really wanted to design a modular architecture that would make it easy to request any data and perform any action from outside the user interface. Technically speaking, Piwik has been built on the top of [...]

January '08

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How to setup a complete PHP development environment on Windows

We are in the process of making it as easy as possible for new developers to join us in making Piwik the best open source web analytics software. We are doing our best writing documentation so people get an overview of the project and can get started without pain. In this process we wrote a [...]