An amazing product that I've been following for the last year has reached the 1.0 milestone.
I don't use GA so can't comment on feature parity. Importantly (for me) it has a powerful API, plugin architecture, easy integration, dead easy multi-site configuration.
I've been using it for about 8 months now and I have been nothing but impressed with these guys. It has proven very stable even from their earlier releases and very snappy.
I've been watching Piwik for a bit (they do analytics software, we do analytics software) and I believe they set aside their scaling work until after version 1.0.
I would love to see an independent open-source analytics company with a services / enterprise business model, along the lines of OpenX for ad serving and the pre-acquisition MySQL. Not so sure the economics justify it, though.
I've used piwik, it really powers the way you can do in-house analytics. Real time, javascript based tracking - no need to wait for data to accumulate. Plugin model makes it highly flexible and extensible. Module Design is very good.
I wanted something to analyze existing log data and could quickly write a small extension to do that. Creating new views or data points were straight forward too. Could easily integrating a simple external package like statviz.
Wasn't very fast processing data in bulk - 20 minutes to process 200K visits. But this was like a year ago. Ofcourse php, Zend db has its limitations with data processing and if the fact table and aggregate creation is rewritten in perl, C++ or something and done at predefined intervals without doing a running average it can handle fairly large amounts of data I suppose.
Sounds like there could be a trade-off between using resources on your own server to keep track of these analytics versus just having Google do it. But then maybe it is insignificant.
Anyone has some stats on how much hit on the server it is doing?
Piwik is nice; another open source tool worth looking at is Open Web Analytics, http://www.openwebanalytics.com/. Both have their advantages and are both under active development.
Just wondering: does anyone know of a mere log analysis tool, that would just look at Apache's logs? What data would I miss, compared to Javascript or PHP based tracking?
I'm asking because I'm looking for a non-invasive method, which I could use on old logs if possible.
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I can't speak highly enough of this product.
The upgrades were painless too, which was a nice surprise - I expected a few hickups during the earlier releases, but found none.
Now they only have access to almost all of my data...
http://jaymz.eu/2010/02/importing-existing-visitor-stats-fro...
I would love to see an independent open-source analytics company with a services / enterprise business model, along the lines of OpenX for ad serving and the pre-acquisition MySQL. Not so sure the economics justify it, though.
While I'm waiting for DNS to propogate, here's a sneak peek: http://img.skitch.com/20100831-kf41k4mpc4gd612jyhdcbtyxgh.jp...
edit: it's now available at http://dashboard.io -- would love any feedback I can get. :)
It looks like the tracking script hosted on demo.piwik.org is slowing the main site down.
I wanted something to analyze existing log data and could quickly write a small extension to do that. Creating new views or data points were straight forward too. Could easily integrating a simple external package like statviz.
Wasn't very fast processing data in bulk - 20 minutes to process 200K visits. But this was like a year ago. Ofcourse php, Zend db has its limitations with data processing and if the fact table and aggregate creation is rewritten in perl, C++ or something and done at predefined intervals without doing a running average it can handle fairly large amounts of data I suppose.
Anyone has some stats on how much hit on the server it is doing?
Everything else was in Piwik's favor, but I'm going to have to use GA because of this one requirement.
I'm asking because I'm looking for a non-invasive method, which I could use on old logs if possible.