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August '12

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It’s Piwik Analytics Survey time: Your Opinion Matters!

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It’s been a little over a year since our last survey. We were so happy to get the participation we did from the community last time and hope that you will once again share your thoughts! Fill in the survey Looking back on the previous survey, several features were implemented as a direct result: Custom Logo Upload Better [...]

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), [...]

July '12

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Yahoo Analytics is Dead – Piwik is a Free Software that Will Work Forever!

A major Free Web Analytics service provider ‘Yahoo Analytics’ will close for new websites on October 31st, 2012. A few weeks ago, Urchin closed sales to new customers in March 2012. Therefore, Piwik is the best free web analytics alternative to Yahoo Analytics! Piwik is made to last, not designed to fail, because it is [...]

July '12

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Piwik Japan Team Exhibited at the Interop Tokyo 2012 Convention (photos)

As the Piwik community continues to grow more and more, Piwik members and fans are now showcasing it at Professional Exhibitions, Conventions and casual meetups all over the world! Recently, an exhibition was held by our Piwik friends in Japan at an event called ‘Interop Tokyo’, held at the Makuhari Messe, Tokyo from the 13th [...]

June '12

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Marketing and Community Coordinator Wanted for Piwik!

The Piwik team invites interested individuals to apply for the volunteer position of Marketing and Community Coordinator. Growing Open Source Project Looking for a Marketing Leader! If you are an active Piwik user, if you have a flair for communications, marketing, and/or business development, if you enjoy writing good web content or blog posts, if [...]

June '12

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Free/Libre Web Analytics Platform Piwik reaches 1 Million Downloads! Restrospective & Future of Piwik

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About 5 years ago, we started working on Piwik with the great ambition to build the leading Open/Free Web Analytics Platform giving users full control of their data, and exposing all features and data via Open APIs and a complete Plugin framework. Today, 2012 June 20th, after 1 Million downloads and more than 300,000 websites [...]

June '12

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Integrate Piwik with your CMS, Ecommerce, Framework or Programming Language

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Thanks to the development of Open Source & Free Software in the recent years, it has become wonderfully more accessible for everyone to build a website or manage an online store. There are dozens of softwares such as WordPress, Drupal, Mediawiki, Magento, osCommerce that have helped millions of individuals share their ideas or build a [...]

June '12

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Piwik 1.8 Release: New Features Screenshots Overview!

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We are excited to announce the immediate availability of Piwik 1.8.1 after 3 months of development and testing. Download link How to update Piwik? List of all tickets closed: Changelog Piwik 1.8 is packed with very useful new features, so please take some time to read through the notes to make sure you make the [...]

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 [...]

April '12

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Urchin is Discontinued: Piwik Server Log Import goes Live!

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Since March 28th, 2012 it has no longer been possible to buy a license for Urchin Web Analytics software. Google decided to close down the server log import software Urchin to focus all their energy on Google Analytics, the same service hosted on Google’s servers. We are proud to announce that we have successfully built [...]

January '12

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Piwik: The Best Alternative to Urchin! Web Analytics via Log File Import

Urchin development and support will be discontinued by Google as of March 2012. Urchin was Log Analysis software bought by Google in 2005. They used this software as a base for Google Analytics but have now announced they will focus exclusively on Google Analytics. We have since received a number of emails from Urchin users, [...]

November '11

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Piwik Stickers design contest, prizes!

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Piwik Stickers Contest Everyone loves stickers, you can use ‘em to jazz up your car, laptop, books or even lamp posts! Therefore, we would love to offer beautiful Piwik stickers to the community. So, we are launching a Design Contest to come up with a funky design that we will use to print stickers! ** [...]

November '11

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New: Quality Piwik T-shirts now available!

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Now you can buy your VERY OWN custom Piwik t-shirt or hoody in our Piwik merchandise shop. We have partnered with our friends at ooShirts.com, a customized tshirts company that provides great, high quality prints for affordable prices. Order your very own Piwik t-shirt or hoodie here: About the T-shirts ooShirts.com is a reputable Custom [...]

September '11

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Announcing Piwik meetup in Munich, Germany on Oct 22nd – Register now, FREE!!

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Updated Nov 2011: the meetup was a great success, 30 people were present and lots of interesting moments and presentations. The slides can be found at the end of this post. Stay tuned on this blog for the next Piwik meetup announcement! We are happy to announce that Piwik is ranked #2 in the top [...]

July '11

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How can we improve the website piwik.org? Feedback, suggestions!

We believe the website piwik.org does a good job, but it can be improved and hopefully serve the Piwik community better. In particular, we are planning to work on a website redesign for piwik.org website, which contains the various documentations, FAQs, the download counter, Participate in the project, and many other pages. What are your [...]

July '11

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Ecommerce Analytics is Hard

One of the key features in v1.5 of Piwik is the ability to track ecommerce events, like viewing a product, placing items in a shopping cart, and purchasing an order. The Piwik team has been working with the folks at ecommerce analytics company Jirafe on these features, and we are very proud of our progress [...]

June '11

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Export statistics from Apache log files to Piwik with Apache2Piwik [DEPRECATED]

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UPDATE March 2012: we have developed a new Server Log Analytics script. The new import_logs.py is now included in Piwik core distribution (as of Piwik 1.7.2) in piwik/misc/log-analytics/import_logs.py Click HERE for the newer version! Note: Apache2Piwik described below is deprecated: we recommend using import_logs.py (click for more info!) Apache2Piwik, a script written in Python under [...]

June '11

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Piwik 1.5 released! Ecommerce Analytics, Custom Variables per page, Upload your Custom logo and more

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We are proud to release Piwik 1.5, after weeks of development and testing. Piwik 1.5 is a major upgrade, bringing amazing new features, better scalability and fixing a security issue affecting a minority of Piwik servers: Download link How to update Piwik? List of all tickets closed: Changelog New features in Piwik 1.5! Ecommerce Analytics [...]

June '11

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Piwik Mobile 1.4

Piwik Mobile 1.4 is now available on your Android phones, or iOs devices.

This is a maintenance release only, for compatibility with new Metadata improvements coming in Piwik 1.5.

New features include “Visitors in Real Time!”, support for screen rotation and more. This release also includes login issues fixes.

Piwik Mobile 1.5 will be released in a few days, please try the RC release for an early taste of all this goodness!

June '11

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Piwik Community Survey – Here are the results!

A few weeks ago we asked the Piwik community to fill out a short survey to tell us where we should invest time going forward.  Over 1,000 users filled out the survey in the past month and we have now found time to analyze the results.  There were a couple of interesting things we learned [...]