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Piwik Web Analytics

Piwik is the leading PHP MySQL open source web analytics solution that you can download and install on your own webserver.  It offers many of the features of similar web analytics platforms but can require a bit more technical knowledge to implement.  The basic steps around how to setup Piwik analytics is listed below with all the required links to the relevant parts of Piwik.

Piwik Setup
At the end of the installation process you will be given a JavaScript tag. Simply copy and paste this javascript tag on websites you wish to track with Piwik Analytics.  If you need to install Piwik they have provided a installation FAQ.

What makes Piwik unique from the web analytics competition:
1. Piwik’s features are built inside plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need. If you are a developer, you can easily build your own analytics plugins!
2. Piwik is installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database and you can get all the statistics using open APIs (mulitple data formats: xml, json, php, csv)
3. The user interface is fully customizable: you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display and create a report especially tailored to you!

Download Latest version of Piwik Analytics, or view an online demo of Piwik Analytics.

Want to know more about Piwik Analytics?
Piwik is under continual development and their core team is growing. The open source community have big plans for Piwik and they are happy you want to know more! The Piwik analytics team often post news on the official blog.

If you want to help and make piwik better, you are welcome. You can, for example, tell their team by email if you want to work on translations or beta-testing.

If you are a developer, you can definitely help grow the use of Piwik analytics. One of their main mid term objective is to make it easy for external developers to build plugins for Piwik Analytics. Help is also welcome if you want to work on the core of Piwik: there are lots of interesting problems to solve, new features to implement and bugs to fix.

The developer zone contains all the resources to get started. The piwik roadmap will tell you where they are going to. You can report a bug or work on some of the existing bug reports. For any technical questions you should ask on the piwik-hackers mailing list ; they will be happy to help.