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- What is Piwik?
- How is Piwik different to phpMyVisites?
- What is going to happen to phpMyVisites?
- How do I upgrade from phpMyVisites to Piwik?
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What is Piwik?
Piwik is a next-generation open source web analytics software, created from the team behind phpMyVisites. Piwik is written in PHP5 using a MySQL database. Piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics. You can have a look at Piwik online demo, download the latest version, or find more information on piwik.org.
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How is Piwik different to phpMyVisites?
Piwik offers many new features which phpMyVisites lacked:
1 - Plugin architecture: easily add new features, remove the ones you don't need... or build your own plugins.
2 - A cleaner, faster User Interface that's simple to use and understand.
3 - An API that lets you access all your data.
4 - A fast-growing community that's actively engaged with Piwik's development.There are a few phpMyVisites features that are not yet available in Piwik: emails reports, PDF exports, multisite reports and some additional translations. We are aiming for Piwik to have most of the phpMyVisites features... and many more!
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What is going to happen to phpMyVisites?
Piwik is the successor to phpMyVisites and has been created by the same team. Supporting both projects is not scalable, so there will be no future development, bug fixing or new releases of the phpmyvisites project.
The phpMyVisites website, documentation, downloads will always stay live but we strongly encourage users to migrate to Piwik (check out the online demo).
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How do I upgrade from phpMyVisites to Piwik?
A plugin will be available to make the migration from phpMyVisites to Piwik simple and straightforward. We aim to make it as easy as possible for phpMyVisites users to upgrade to Piwik and keep all their data. If you are interested by this plugin check out the related trac ticket.