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February '08

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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.). View piwik features and screenshots presentation on slideshare This presentation illustrates 5 important key features of Piwik: Open APIs Plugins Architecture Data abstraction layer Customizable dashboard Innovative [...]

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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The best Web Analytics API: Piwik API

The mission statement of Piwik is « To create, as a community, the leading international open source web analytics application, providing access to all functionality through open components and open APIs. » “Open APIs:” It is very important for us that Piwik’s users can access their data very easily. The problem with a service such [...]

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 [...]