#Awstats vs piwik update#

The presentation is also pretty, gives me an idea to include it on my advertise page. Self hosted also keeps your visitors data secure and you dont have to live in the fear of a third party snooping on what you don't want them to know.īelow are some sample graphs/charts from Piwik's homepage.Īll graphs and stats generated by Piwik can be embedded into a web page or blog easily.

#Awstats vs piwik update#

And all of this in real time, not having to wait for Google to update the stats. Would hosting piwik within Thailand would get me closest to the analytics I need?Īnother advantage I see is since it is open source and API friendly, I can perhaps tweak it to show reffers from Google Search, Google News Search, Google Blog Search as separate search engines. This does screw up both my awstats data as well as Google Analytics reports. Thai ISPs for some strange reason diverts all international traffic thru their caching transparent proxy servers. My sites are hosted outside Thailand and a lot of the users come from Thailand. Piwik can also be hosted independently on a separate server or in my case a separate country. Piwik VS others Ranked 12 worldwide 2 in Germany and Switzerland. Compare StatCounter VS AWStats and see what are their differences Improvado.io Improvado is an ETL platform that extracts data from 300+ pre-built connectors, transforms it, and seamlessly loads the results to wherever you need them. Piwik like Google Analytics uses javascript to collect users data and is not dependent on the web servers access.log file, thus 100% eliminating the chances of any bad bot activity to be mistaken for a user. Piwik community 150,000 active Piwik servers : 150,000 monthly visitors. Piwik is the new version of phpMyVisites and is supported by OpenAds (a very powerful Open Source Ad server)

The idea seems to be to make an Open Source alternative to Google Analytics and the advantages seems to be many.

At first glance it looks quite neat and developer friendly.