Features

It can be hard to keep track of all the features that Piwik has to offer. To find out if Piwik is the right web analytics tool for you, check out this ever-expanding list of features we can offer you below.
You can also view the complete list of features in Piwik Analytics.

Web Analytics Features

Piwik has all the standard reports you would expect from a state of the art analytics package:

Top keywords, search engine and website referrers, real time reports, campaign tracking and more. Each user can customize the dashboard according to your individual needs, and can track as many websites your server can handle.

Best of all, with Piwik you own your own data, so you can integrate the data into your own systems or just use the standard Piwik install.

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Administration Options

While Piwik was built for ease of use for the frontend data seeker, Piwik also has a very powerful backend systems.

Manage unlimited users and
unlimited websites.

Piwik allows you to track as many websites as your server can handle. Not only that, you can create as many user accounts as you like as well. You can also set user access to one or multiple websites.

Piwik Settings

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Manage IP and Url Exclusions

Need to block your own traffic, or a range of IP addresses, Piwik has you covered. Are there URL parameters you want to have ignored, such as session ids?

An International Solution

Piwik is available in over 48 languages. You can set time zone for each website, and we support over 100 different currencies.

Maintenance

Piwik can automatically delete old data (as you specify it) to help keep you database size small and running smoothly.

White label Piwik

You can upload your custom logo and make your login, your user UI and email reports have its own custom flare. See Piwik White Label.

Tracking API

Data exports & APIs

Data Your Way

It's your data, so get it how you want it. You can export your data into a file format of your choice: Excel, XML, Json, PHP and more!

User Guides

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Analytics API

You can use the Analytics API to programmatically request reports on all kinds of data for any list of websites, and any given date or period.

Segmentation API

This extends the Analytics API and makes it possible to easily request any subset of your audience for your Piwik reports. The only limit is your creativity.

Security and Quality

We take software security, quality assurance and testing seriously.

We have a security bug bounty program in place that rewards researchers for finding security issues and disclosing them to us. Regular external security reviews do take place, and we have conducted two paid security reviews from the top php security researchers, SektionEin.

In terms of quality

All Piwik PHP code should adheres to a security checklist and all commits to the Piwik Git repository are reviewed by at least two core developers. Furthermore, the Piwik project uses an ever-expanding comprehensive set of tests and automated web tests on a self-hosted continuous integration server as part of its software quality assurance. This complements our software development practices, such as SCM and code reviews.

Technical

Piwik can be used on numerous types of servers and setups and is extremely easy to install. Anyone can use Piwik!

Piwik is compatible with all kinds of servers, including Windows, MacOs, Linux, Solaris, IIS, Apache, Nginx, and more. All that Piwik requires to work is the following:

PHP version 5.1.3 or greater

(We recommend PHP 5.3 for best performance)

MySQL version 4.1 or greater

PHP GD extension

Used to generate some graphics in Piwik.

PHP extension pdo and pdo_mysql, or the mysqli extension.

(usually installed by default)

For high traffic websites

We have tips available to make it more efficient (http://piwik.org/docs/optimize/)

Piwik is very flexible and supports servers behind proxies, load balanced architecture, and IPv4 as well as IPv6 addresses. It also perfect for use in Intranet websites.

Why choose Piwik over another web analytics solution?

Advanced Analytics

Powerful Analytics Dashboards featuring: Ecommerce Reporting, Goal Tracking, Campaigns Tracking, Custom Variables, Email Reports, and more!

Constantly improving

New features every month and impressive roadmap to reach Piwik 2.0: the ultimate Web Analytics Platform!

Customizable Analytics Platform

View your data in any way you like and experiment with plugins. You can build your own web analytics plugins or hire a consultant to have your custom feature built in Piwik.

Secure & Confidential

Your data in your hands: Complete control. Piwik also keeps your data safe  (learn more) and ensures better Privacy for your visitors.

Real time and Speedy

View your detailed Visitors activity in Real Time. Even if your website(s) generate millions of pages per month, Piwik can work for you! (learn more)

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