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Piwik

Required Configuration to Run Piwik

To run Piwik your host needs a couple of things:

• Webserver such as Apache, Nginx, IIS, etc.
• PHP version 5.3.3 or greater
• MySQL version 4.1 or greater, or MariaDB
• (enabled by default) PHP extension pdo and pdo_mysql, or the mysqli extension.

Note that in 2016 we will drop support for PHP 5.3 in Piwik 3.0.0. Piwik will then require PHP 5.5. Until then Piwik works well with any PHP >= 5.3.3.

Web Analytics Features

All standard statistics reports: top keywords and search engines, websites, top page URLs, page titles, user countries, providers, operating system, browser marketshare, screen resolution, desktop VS mobile, engagement (time on site, pages per visit, repeated visits), top campaigns, custom variables, top entry/exit pages, downloaded files, and many more, classified into four main analytics report categories – Visitors, Actions, Referrers, Goals/e-Commerce (30+ reports). See Tour of Piwik.

• Real time data updates: Watch real time flow of visits to your website. Get a detailed view of your visitors, pages they have visited and goals they have triggered.
• Customizable Dashboard: Create new dashboards with widget configuration fit to your needs.
• All Websites Dashboard: Best way to get an overview of what is happening on all your websites at once.
• Row Evolution: Current & past metric data for any row in any report.
• Analytics for e-commerce: Understand and improve your online business thanks to advanced e-commerce analytics features.
• Goal conversion tracking: Track Goals and identify whether you are meeting your current business objectives.
• Event Tracking: Mesure any interaction by users on your websites and apps.
• Content Tracking: Mesure impressions and clicks and CTR for image banners, text banners and any element on your pages.
• Site Search Analytics: Track searches done on your internal search engine.
• Custom Dimensions: Assign any custom data to your visitors or actions (like pages, events, …) and then visualize the reports of how many visits, conversions, pageviews, etc. there were for each Custom Dimension.
• Custom Variables: similar to Custom Dimensions: custom name-value pair that you can assign to your visitors (or page views) using the JavaScript Tracking API, and then visualize the reports of how many visits, conversions, etc. for each custom variable.
• Geolocation: Locate your visitors for accurate detection of Country, Region, City, Organization. View the visitors statistics on a World Map by Country, Region, City. View your latest visitors in real time.
• Pages Transitions: View what visitors did before, and after viewing specific page.
• Page Overlay: Display statistics directly on top of your website with our smart overlay.
• Site speed & pages speed reports: Keeps track of how fast your website delivers content to your visitors.
• Track different user interactions: Automatic tracking of file downloads, clicks on external website links, optional tracking of 404 pages
• Analytics campaign tracking: Automatically detects Google Analytics campaign parameters in your URLs.
• Track traffic from search engines: More than 800 different search engines tracked!
• Scheduled email reports (PDF and HTML reports): Embed reports in your app or website (40+ Widgets available) or embed PNG Graphs in any custom page, email, or app.
• Annotations: Create text notes in your graphs, to remember about particular events.
• No data limit: You can keep all your data, without any storage limits, forever! See our limits analytics data fact sheet.

Administration Options

• Manage unlimited users
• Set user access to multiple websites
• Manage unlimited websites
• Exclude IPs and IP ranges
• Exclude URL parameters
• Timezone support, for each website
• Supports 100+ currencies
• Powerful options to White Label Piwik are available, ideal for large agencies or when you need a clean, branded Piwik interface
• Upload your custom logo for UI and email reports
• Automatically delete old logs and old data reports to keep you database size small
• Integrates with more than 40 CMS, web frameworks or Ecommerce shops

More Goodness!

• Official Piwik Mobile app for Android and iOs smartphones
• Free community support forums
• Professional consultation services
• 50+ languages available
• Let your customers and clients sign up to your Piwik
• 100% FREE Software (Open Source, GPL license), yet compatible with commercial uses

Tracking API

• By default, we recommend the Javascript Tracking API
• Mobile App Analytics with the Piwik iOS SDK, the Android SDK and the Titanium Module.
• Asynchronous code for faster page loads
• 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 subdomains
• User ID lets you accurately measure your unique users across multiple devices.
• Supports both 1^st party cookies (default) and 3^rd party cookie (optional)
• Import your Apache, Nginx, IIS server logs for processing in Piwik!
• Track server speed generation time for each Page view

Supports pages encoded in unicode (for example, UTF-8) but also supports all other charsets

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
• Track and identify search engine and other bots
• Keep your data private on your server

Technical

• Compatible with Windows, MacOs, Linux, Solaris, IIS, Apache, Nginx, and more
• Long Term Supported Piwik is the analytics platform for your mission critical projects
• 5 Minute installation
• Other one click Installation options: Softaculous, Installatron, Microsoft Web Platform Installer, and our official Piwik Debian package.
• 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 servers behind proxies, works in a load balanced architecture, and supports IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
• Works for Intranet websites
• SharePoint Analytics: integrate Piwik with your SharePoint service to learn more about the productivity of your employees and overall user engagement.
• Using JavaScript by default, Piwik can also import server logs or track your Mobile Apps analytics.

User Privacy

• Privacy compliant web analytics
• Setting to anonymise your visitors’ IPs
• Iframe included to let your visitor opt-out of Piwik tracking
• DoNotTrack support by default
• Use 1^st party cookies by default, with an option to enable third party cookies

Community Contributions

• Open Marketplace with more than 60 plugins Enhance your Piwik analytics with valuable additional features.
• Themes for Piwik Feel like a change of colors? Try our community submitted themes, or create your own!
• Plugins for CMS: WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and more than 25 pieces of software with a Piwik Integration plugin
• Libraries for programming languages: Python, Ruby, and more!

Tested & Working

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Webmaster’s Choice

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