Piwik: An Alternative To Google Analytics ...

ArtWilliams · 2013-09-26, 01:23 PM

I've been thinking long and hard about what it means to give up your user stats to Google Analytics (GA). I've decided that I want to use something where I control the data. AwStats and the like are okay but they don't give you a lot of info.

I've come across Piwik. It's an open source program that you put on your website (like Wordpress, etc.). Obviously, it requires a MySQL database to gather it's info. Once set-up, you place a hunk of code on your site just like you would with GA (or use a Wordpress plugin).

Anyhow, I don't have an opinion on it yet but I thought I would let people know of my find as it might be helpful to some.

2013-09-26, 01:23 PM	#1
ArtWilliams You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 6,244	Piwik: An Alternative To Google Analytics ... I've been thinking long and hard about what it means to give up your user stats to Google Analytics (GA). I've decided that I want to use something where I control the data. AwStats and the like are okay but they don't give you a lot of info. I've come across Piwik. It's an open source program that you put on your website (like Wordpress, etc.). Obviously, it requires a MySQL database to gather it's info. Once set-up, you place a hunk of code on your site just like you would with GA (or use a Wordpress plugin). Anyhow, I don't have an opinion on it yet but I thought I would let people know of my find as it might be helpful to some.