Piwik
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Has anyone ever used Piwik? I am going to play with it in the NTG lab today.
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Ok. So I skipped the lab because I wanted to see what it could do in production along side my Google Analytics. Piwik is much more powerful. I don't get a ton of traffic to my blog so it might be a few days before we can really get some nice screenshots.
I love the fact that I can email myself daily reports. There are a ton of free plugins that add functionality such as LDAP (great for internal websites)
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Here are some real time screenshots.it takes at least a full day to populate the graphs. So hopefully I can have some screenshots of them tomorrow. Here is the mobile app.
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Some screenshots from desktop.
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Cool, looks pretty interesting. I had not heard of it before.
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@scottalanmiller said in Piwik:
Cool, looks pretty interesting. I had not heard of it before.
I am going to do a writeup on it at some point. I will install it on the NTG lab and get some screenshots and go over everything step by step.
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@scottalanmiller said in Piwik:
Cool, looks pretty interesting. I had not heard of it before.
I am going to do a writeup on it at some point. I will install it on the NTG lab and get some screenshots and go over everything step by step.
Awesome!
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@scottalanmiller said in Piwik:
@scottalanmiller said in Piwik:
Cool, looks pretty interesting. I had not heard of it before.
I am going to do a writeup on it at some point. I will install it on the NTG lab and get some screenshots and go over everything step by step.
Awesome!
The reports should be a bit more useful in a few more days anyway. I am excited to get daily email reports and what appears to be many more graphs than what is available with Google Analytics
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Here are a bunch of screenshots for anybody who is interested. There is a free mobile app on Android and iPhone to view your stats. You can also setup reporting.
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@IRJ thanks
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These are a little smaller so should be easier to read.
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Here is a daily email you can send yourself for each website that you track. I actually didnt include all the stats and graphs this less than half of the information you get from the report.
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@IRJ interested to know how does it compares with Google Analytics
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@Ambarishrh said in Piwik:
@IRJ interested to know how does it compares with Google Analytics
Same here.
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My Piwik server is monitoring 3 websites now (mine and 2 clients). The data is pretty much the same when you compare Google Analytics and Piwik. Of course Piwik is more customization and you can create your own dashboard which is plus. It also has some other nice features such as additional plugins, themes, and a few widgets Google Analytics doesn't have.
What I like most about Piwik is being able to brand it and email daily reports. I don't have to login anywhere, I can scan an email really quick and see my stats. My clients are liking the information, too. They never had access to my analytics before. They weren't technical enough to understand logging in, etc. so Piwik is good for them.
In summary, if you monitor one website, it probably isn't worth doing (unless you want automatic email reports which for me is a big plus!). If you are monitoring multiple sites, I highly recommend it.
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@Ambarishrh and @scottalanmiller
After using piwik and google analytics side by side for a week or so piwik is really starting to grow on me. I find that it is easier to find data on piwik and I really like the customizable dashboard. I can see all the information I want right from the dashboard.
The realtime visitor viewer is really nice. It not only shows realtime visitors like google, but it also shows past visits in order.
The only gripe I have about piwik is the geo location isn't great. I generally only get the country from the console. I believe I can install a plugin to fix this. I just haven't had time yet.
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Question - is it all local to the host, or at least centralized to a host you control? i.e. no data going off to a third party like google?
While I like many of the features that data provides Google the ability to provide, I really hate how slow so much of the web is because of the hundreds or thousands of redirects that a page often loads....
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@Dashrender said in Piwik:
Question - is it all local to the host, or at least centralized to a host you control? i.e. no data going off to a third party like google?
While I like many of the features that data provides Google the ability to provide, I really hate how slow so much of the web is because of the hundreds or thousands of redirects that a page often loads....
Google should not be slowing you down, it sends out the data after the load and it is just sending telemetry data, not redirecting or loading anything.
