Open Source Traffic Analytics: Piwik 1.0

August 30, 2010

Yesterday the official Piwik blog has announced the availability of the first stable release of the powerful web-based web analytics software.

Piwik is an Open Source free web traffic analytics software written in PHP and MySql supported by OpenX, it’s downlodable and runs on Apache server.

It’s aim is to be “an open source alternative to Google Analytics” as claimed in the official Piwik website.

Piwik supports all the essential features of  a professional web analytics tool and much more: Piwik is able to anonymously capture the visitors IPs, it is customizable  with plug-ins (features not supported by more popular similar tools). Have a look at the list of Piwik’s features have a look in the Vision Roadmap page, but my suggestion is to try it directly and find out yourself the power of this open source tool.

I have been usingn piwik since its early development stage and I am glad to see it reaching the 1.0 version! As a user I can say that Piwik has a more user-friendly interface then Google Analytics: if you want to choose a tool easy to use and understand for your non-tech customers you are more likely to look at Piwik rather then Google Analytics.

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