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Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics

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Post by eli_s » Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 1:04 PM UTC

Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics
piwik.org

Re: Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics

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Post by eli_s » Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 1:09 PM UTC

An amazing product that I've been following for the last year has reached the 1.0 milestone.

I don't use GA so can't comment on feature parity. Importantly (for me) it has a powerful API, plugin architecture, easy integration, dead easy multi-site configuration.

I can't speak highly enough of this product.

Re: Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics

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Post by madhouse » Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 1:12 PM UTC

Been using it myself since... around 0.2 or so, very satisfied.

The upgrades were painless too, which was a nice surprise - I expected a few hickups during the earlier releases, but found none.

Re: Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics

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Post by sant0sk1 » Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 2:09 PM UTC

I've been using this for a few weeks and it is really solid. It feels nice to have my analytics data on my own server instead of the GOOG's.

Now they only have access to almost all of my data...

Re: Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics

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Post by davidu » Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 2:22 PM UTC

The real power of GA is watching it scale to handle 100mm+ monthly pageviews. Can Piwik do this?

Re: Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics

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Post by mivok » Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 2:31 PM UTC

davidu wrote: post #5

The real power of GA is watching it scale to handle 100mm+ monthly pageviews. Can Piwik do this?

No (speaking from experience - we've had no end of issues with piwik and larger websites)

Re: Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics

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Post by gyardley » Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 2:38 PM UTC

davidu wrote: post #5

The real power of GA is watching it scale to handle 100mm+ monthly pageviews. Can Piwik do this?

I've been watching Piwik for a bit (they do analytics software, we do analytics software) and I believe they set aside their scaling work until after version 1.0.

I would love to see an independent open-source analytics company with a services / enterprise business model, along the lines of OpenX for ad serving and the pre-acquisition MySQL. Not so sure the economics justify it, though.

Re: Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics

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Post by herrherr » Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 2:46 PM UTC

davidu wrote: post #5

The real power of GA is watching it scale to handle 100mm+ monthly pageviews. Can Piwik do this?

Don't know if this relates directly to the question about scalability, but the main site is not loading for me, nor is the demo site.

It looks like the tracking script hosted on demo.piwik.org is slowing the main site down.

Re: Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics

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Post by steveklabnik » Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 2:51 PM UTC

mivok wrote: post #6

davidu wrote: post #5

The real power of GA is watching it scale to handle 100mm+ monthly pageviews. Can Piwik do this?

No (speaking from experience - we've had no end of issues with piwik and larger websites)

Could you quantify 'larger'? Just wondering at what point this starts to have problems.

Re: Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics

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Post by WalterGR » Tue, Aug 31, 2010, 3:40 PM UTC

sant0sk1 wrote: post #4

I've been using this for a few weeks and it is really solid. It feels nice to have my analytics data on my own server instead of the GOOG's. Now they only have access to almost all of my data...

Were you able to import any Google Analytics data into Piwik? Does GA offer a way to get your data out, other than exporting specific reports?