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April '13

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Spotlight: Alwaysdata.com the company behind Piwik.org web hosting [Interview]

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Piwik is the result of the work of many talented individuals and companies. Today we’d like to showcase Alwaysdata.com, the awesome web hosting company providing managed hosting for all Piwik.org websites and services. I recently met and asked a few questions to Cyril, co-founder of Alwaysdata.com and Piwik core developer. Learn more in the interview [...]

January '13

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Web Analytics solution for Governments?

Piwik’s increase in popularity is a huge reward to the team and a strength for the community! In the last 12 months, Piwik has seen +25% growth in the number of websites tracked, to reach 460,000+ websites. Government agencies, Universities and NGOs have started to make the choice to use the open source analytics solution. [...]

December '12

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Piwik How To Videos

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Video Tutorials Piwik Analytics Reports walkthrough Video Credits Video Tutorials Watch these videos to learn about how to Install, Configure and Use the many features of Piwik, the best Open Web Analytics platform. Introduction to Piwik – Real Time Web Analytics – Video Introduces the most useful features of Piwik: Dashboards and Widgets, Real Time [...]

December '12

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Learn all about Piwik’s Analytics Features [9 minutes Video Tutorial]

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Video Overview of Piwik Web Analytics – Length: 9 minutes Check out this complete introduction to some of the most useful features in Piwik, and discover the main Analytics Reports. In this video, the features covered include: Dashboards, Widgets Report tables and Data Analysis Visitors reports Actions, Downloads, Clicks Referrers, Websites, SEO, Campaigns, Social Goals [...]

November '12

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Piwik Web Analytics Essentials [Book Review]

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A book about Piwik Analytics Piwik Web Analytics Essentials is probably the most accurate title one could give a book of this nature. What made this book a joy to read was  author Stephan A. Miller’s technical yet conversational style. It was a very rewarding read, especially considering Analytics can be a topic that can easily become [...]

October '12

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How to Configure Settings in Piwik Analytics [Video]

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New Video to Learn About Piwik Settings In our last post, we wrote about How to install Piwik. Now that you have set things up properly, our next video will show you how to set-up Piwik in the backend. We hope you find these videos helpful, and that they help you discover the intricacies of [...]

October '12

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How to Install Piwik Analytics [Video]

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New Video to Learn How To Install Piwik One of the great things about Piwik, is the power, flexibility and the amount of data you can capture about your visitors. To get the most of out of your Piwik install, it’s important to set up things properly and to be aware of all the features [...]

October '12

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Welcome to Piwik Analytics [Video]

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Learn About Piwik Analytics You may have missed it in the past, but we launched a video on our homepage to tell you about Piwik and all the features you can find. If you are new to Piwik, want to share with others how great Piwik is, or just curious about some of the other features Piwik [...]

October '12

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Custom Variable Case Study: Divezone.net

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Case Study: Divezone.Net In our last post, we talked about custom variables and I showed you some simple ways to add custom variables to your Piwik code to track membership and role activity. Another way you can use custom variables is when you want to track a content site. To dig a little deeper with [...]

October '12

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Using Custom Variables in Piwik (Tutorial)

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Welcome to the first in a series of new type of blog posts we will be bringing your way. The goal of these posts is to focus on features/modifications to Piwik you might not be aware of, as well as topics related to analytics in general. We are open to ideas for future posts as [...]

August '12

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Get started with Piwik development – Piwik Puppet Module + Vagrant

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Today, we’re announcing the Piwik-Puppet module including a Vagrant configuration for Piwik! This article is written for technical people, free software enthusiasts, bleeding edge geeks, and the Piwik Hacking Community, and anyone who likes to play with awesome, powerful, modern free software technologies! The Piwik Puppet module makes it very easy to start with Piwik [...]

July '12

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Will Piwik Scale on my High Traffic Website?

The Piwik Professional Services team get often get asked about “Will Piwik work on my High Traffic Website?” We have successfully helped customers manage Piwik servers with up to 20M pageviews a month. Documentation: Piwik High Traffic  Check out our guide for Scaling Piwik – High Traffic Server If you use Piwik with High Traffic website(s), [...]

April '12

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How to track Mobile apps usage (clicks, phones, errors, etc.) or track software analytics

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This post is aimed at Mobile Apps developers and Software developers (Desktop apps) who wish to implement Usage Tracking & Analytics of their apps using the leading Free Web Analytics platform Piwik. You are maybe familiar with using Piwik and track visits using the Javascript code. In many cases however, using Javascript is not an [...]

February '11

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Reshaping Piwik Documentation

In this post you will hear all about what has recently been happening at Piwik: a new, simpler to use User Documentation now available at piwik.org/docs Check out the new docs pages… Using Piwik… Piwik Installation & Optimization This is all the information needed to install and keep Piwik up and running such as: How [...]

July '10

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New Piwik Tracking API: Track visits from Mobile apps, Desktop apps… anywhere

Recently, we released a powerful set of new APIs to track visitors, page views and goal conversions: Piwik Tracking APIs If tracking visits using Javascript is not an option for you, you can use alternative ways to record visitors, visits, pages and Goal conversions in Piwik: Simple Image Tracker The Simple HTML Image Tracker tag [...]

June '09

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New Piwik Javascript Tracking API – How we designed it

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There are a lot of changes in Piwik 0.4. Today, I’m going to write about the release of an exciting new version of piwik.js, Piwik’s JavaScript tracker. While the improvements are all under the hood, Piwik’s client-side code is now a heavyweight contender to the trackers from the “Big 3″ (i.e., GA, Y!A, and MS). [...]

February '09

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Software geeks: How Piwik automatically generates the API, using PHP Reflection

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Friendly warning: blog post for software geeks only! What is an “API” in Piwik and how to use it? In Piwik, every plugin can expose its own API. Creating an API in a Piwik plugin is as easy as creating a class in a file called API.php; see example of the UserCountry/API.php API. This class [...]

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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Keep track of new Piwik versions and changes with the Changelog page and feed

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This was a highly requested feature: provide a Changelog for Piwik. What has changed since my version of Piwik and the latest one? The Piwik changelog is now available. It has one entry per new Piwik version and lists all changes that have been made to Piwik in each version. How do I know when [...]

June '08

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German Video tutorial “How to install Piwik?”

Ralph, german user of Piwik, has written a nice and detailed installation tutorial for Piwik. Piwik installation process is easy and straightforward for most people. However when you have not installed a php software software, an illustrated tutorial is very useful! Thanks Ralph. Also check out Ralph 5min video review in German of the Piwik [...]