Piwik
Encyclopedia
Piwik is an open source
web analytics
system written by a team of international developers, and runs on a PHP
/MySQL
webserver. Piwik is used by over 250,000 websites and is translated in more than 45 languages.
Piwik features a modern user interface, APIs to access all data (and also manage users, websites, scheduled reports, Goals, etc), Real time reports, a Plugins architecture, extended Privacy features, Mobile App (iOs and Android), and more than 50 other features . Piwik is released under the GNU/GPL, and is new versions are regularly released every few weeks .
One of the differences between self hosted Piwik and Software as a service
(such as Google Analytics
) is that with Piwik, all visitor interaction data stays under control and ownership of the webmaster or company. In Germany, 13% of .de websites use Piwik because it offers more privacy features and keep control over the Analytics data (Anonymize IPs, Purge logs, Opt-out feature, etc.). .
On November 21, 2008, SourceForge.net
announced the availability of Piwik as a hosted application for developers. Piwik was selected SourceForge.net's Project of the Month for July 2009.
In August 2009, Piwik was named among the best of open source enterprise in InfoWorld
's 2009 Bossie Awards.
Open source
The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...
web analytics
Web analytics
Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage....
system written by a team of international developers, and runs on a PHP
PHP
PHP is a general-purpose server-side scripting language originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document...
/MySQL
MySQL
MySQL officially, but also commonly "My Sequel") is a relational database management system that runs as a server providing multi-user access to a number of databases. It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My...
webserver. Piwik is used by over 250,000 websites and is translated in more than 45 languages.
Piwik features a modern user interface, APIs to access all data (and also manage users, websites, scheduled reports, Goals, etc), Real time reports, a Plugins architecture, extended Privacy features, Mobile App (iOs and Android), and more than 50 other features . Piwik is released under the GNU/GPL, and is new versions are regularly released every few weeks .
One of the differences between self hosted Piwik and Software as a service
Software as a Service
Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...
(such as Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. The product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website...
) is that with Piwik, all visitor interaction data stays under control and ownership of the webmaster or company. In Germany, 13% of .de websites use Piwik because it offers more privacy features and keep control over the Analytics data (Anonymize IPs, Purge logs, Opt-out feature, etc.). .
History
Piwik was released in late 2007 as a next generation software of phpMyVisites, with full API support, cleaner UI, modern graphs, and better architecture and performance .On November 21, 2008, SourceForge.net
SourceForge.net
SourceForge is a web-based source code repository. It acts as a centralized location for software developers to control and manage open source software development. The website runs a version of SourceForge Enterprise Edition, forked from the last open-source version available...
announced the availability of Piwik as a hosted application for developers. Piwik was selected SourceForge.net's Project of the Month for July 2009.
In August 2009, Piwik was named among the best of open source enterprise in InfoWorld
InfoWorld
InfoWorld is an information technology online media and events business operating under the umbrella of InfoWorld Media Group, a division of IDG...
's 2009 Bossie Awards.