List of features in Piwik

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 changing list of features.

Most features in this page link to the related feature's documentation or FAQ entry.

Web Analytics features

All standard statistics reports: Top Keywords and Search engines, Websites, Best Page URLs, Page titles, User countries, providers, Operating System, Browsers, Resolution, Engagement (time on site, pages per visit, repeated visits), and many more – classified in four main Analytics Report categories – Visitors, Actions, Referrers, Goals/Ecommerce (30+ reports)
All data updated in Real time!
Detailed view of your visitors, pages they have visited, goals triggered
Customizable Dashboard
Dashboard for All Websites
Analytics for Ecommerce
Ecommerce – Abandoned Carts reporting
Ecommerce – Product & Categories reporting
Goal Conversions Tracking
Track Custom Variables
World map of your visitors
Automatic tracking of File Downloads
Automatic tracking of Clicks on external websites
Optional tracking of 404 pages
Feed (RSS/Atom) Analytics (via Feedburner)
Analytics Campaign tracking
Automatically detects Google Analytics Campaign parameters in your URLs
More than 800 Search Engines tracked
Scheduled Email Reports (PDF and HTML Reports)
Embed Reports in your app or website, 40+ Widgets available…
… or embed (beautiful) PNG Graphs in any custom page, email, or app!
Optionally make your statistics public

Administration options

Manage unlimited Users
Set User access to one or many websites
Manage unlimited Websites
Exclude IP, IP Ranges
Exclude URL Parameters
Timezone support, for each website
Supports 100+ Currencies
Upload your custom logo for UI and Email reports
Automatically Delete old logs to keep database size small
More advanced User settings!

More goodness!

Official Piwik Mobile app for Android and iOs phones
Free community support forums
Professional Consulting services
43+ languages available
Let your customers signup in your Piwik
Google Analytics Data Importer
100% FREE Software (Open Source, GPL license), yet compatible with commercial uses

Tracking API

Javascript Tracking API
Asynchronous Code for faster page load
Track & record any data using the REST Tracking API, via the PHP Tracking API Client or the Java Tracking API client
Track Custom Page URLs and Page Titles
Track sub-domains
Supports both 1st party cookies (default) and 3rd party cookie (optional)

Data Export & APIs

Data Export in Excel, XML, Json and more!
Fully featured Analytics API
Administration API (REST) to create/update/delete pragmatically: users API, websites API, goals API, etc.
Segmentation support in the API

Log Analytics: import and analyze your server logs

Reprocess historical data from your server logfiles
Report server errors and other http status codes
Tracks and identify search engine bots and other bots
Keep your data private on your server

Technical

Compatible with Windows, MacOs, Linux, Solaris, IIS, Apache, Nginx, and more
5 Minutes installation
Other one click Installation options: SimpleScripts, Softaculous and Microsoft Web Platform Installer
Easy One Click Update
Strong focus on software security & Excellent track record
Strong focus on software Quality Assurance & testing
Compatible with High traffic websites
Supports server behind Proxies, works in a load balanced architecture, and supports IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
Works for Intranet websites

User Privacy

Privacy compliant Web Analytics
Setting to Anonymise your Visitor IP
Iframe include to let your visitor Opt Out of Piwik
Using First party cookies by default, with an option to enable third party cookies

Community Contributions

Desktop Web Analytics for Piwik
Piwik plugins built by third party Piwik developers
Plugins for CMS: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and more than 25 softwares with a Piwik Integration plugin
Libraries for Programming languages: Python, Ruby, and more!

Piwik is always evolving and we regularly release new versions. Check out the Piwik Roadmap for some pointers to features we hope to release in the next few months!