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It looks like Google and other analytics players are going to refuse to follow DNT, after a hilariously weak proposal by the DAA was rejected by the W3C committee.
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Full Disclosure: I am a Piwik Dev Whenever Piwik gets slow you will have to setup cron archiving: http://piwik.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/ By default, Piwik will aggregate data when you a) make an API request - b) Load the dashboard (which in fact calls the API). Cron archiving makes this process faster by processing all the data beforehand so that the API can simply request it from the DB.
Apologize for hijacking the thread. I am trying to convince one of my clients to do exactly this. Switch from GA to Piwik for their site which is deployed on Adobe CQ5. I know I can use client side tracking easily (hence my recommendation). However, do you know if there is support for server side CQ5 logs?
See here: http://piwik.org/log-analytics/how-to/
Edit: It should be noted that you will get lots of bots requests showing up when you load access logs (the regular tracker relies on javascript, which gets rid of most of the bots). I have a small awk script that cleans the access logs prior to importing them, by trying to detect bots. I can upload that if you're interested.
Author here. Seems like Hackernews traffic "DDOS'ed" the original blog. I made a clone of the post in my personal blog (hosted on wordpress). http://dicasdolampada.wordpress.com/2013/07/22/goodbye-googl...
My thanks to the hackernews folks who changed the original link (Y)
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We gave up on it for the same reason. It is absurd for a simple web analytics app to require massively more powerful hardware than our actual app does. And since it is a mysql mess, any updates that touch the schema put your stats offline for hours. I really can't fathom how using mysql is still considered acceptable in 2013.
I completely agree with the statement. I love Piwik and we use to monitor a lot of our sites. But I hate the fact that it's LAMP. Archive script runs out of memory at least once a week.
I've used Piwik for years and it is incredibly simple to use and set up but this post makes it much more complex than it needs to be. In all honesty, it's just as simple as setting up Wordpress. Drop the Piwik folder on a server somewhere, run the installation (connecting to your database and if I recall correctly you don't need to use the root user, just a user with sufficient privileges), and you're done. I want to…
> It isn't as pretty as GA. I know this is petty and that its themeable but the UI was important to me. I explored this too--it turns out that they make money off of the design of custom Piwik UIs for sale. A site license for their white-labeling plugin costs just under 2,000 euro.
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Snowplow co-founder here. Thanks for mentioning us liquidcool :-) Snowplow is a little different from Piwik - Piwik is a LAMP-stack opensource app which replicates a GA-style analytics experience. Snowplow is more of a scalable event analytics platform - it is built on AWS (CloudFront, Elastic MapReduce, Redshift), does _not_ have a UI but has a very clean & simple event model[1] and scales horizontally to billions o…
I want to take this opportunity to praise SnowPlow. They allow for collection from just about anywhere. Options include Javascript, GIF beacons for email embed, Arduino, and anything else that can send HTTP GET requests. Snowplow's collection can be performed by Amazon CloudFront, which results in absurdly low latency world-wide, for cheap. I think I estimated around $0.60 per million hits. However, Snowplow is very…
On the JSON/GA point - thanks for the feedback. We are slowly but surely evolving from our GA-style API, e.g. with our tracker support for new Mixpanel-style unstructured events (though they are not - yet - supported in our ETL/storage):
https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow/wiki/2-Specific-event-t...
We are moving our event model to be Avro-based later this year and then yes we may look at completing our existing tracker protocol with something more JSON-centric. So lots on the horizon!
IMHO Piwik is a valid open-source alternative to Google Analytics and will erode its application marketplace.
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You can get Google analytics to show you real time info too, it just don't save it as the default view.
I've found that with GA the previous 24 hrs or so stats are not really accurate, especially with bigger traffic sites.
The problem is there isn't a single viable GA alternative out there that doesn't cost a fortune.
Clicky and Chartbeat are the only two relatively inexpensive option