Piwik

Piwik is a great software to use and utilize to ensure that everything is organized in terms of handling your website visitors and this software could help you find better leads. It helped us a lot in terms of identifying interested customers who visited our websites. This helped us generate better and more valid leads.

I believe there is something that Piwik could improve in terms of ease in installation of the software. We had a hard time installing the software, it could not be for some but for us who do not have strong IT team, installation of Piwik gave us a bit of a hard time.

I highly recommend Piwik to those businesses who have websites and do marketing campaigns online. What we enjoy the most is that use of Piwik is free thus there is nothing to lose instead more to gain in choosing Piwik for your companies. This is a great software to utilize to ensure that you could have better marketing strategy online.

Piwik is an open source analytics and reporting software which is freely available to download, install and begin using immediately. Though I was also interested in the cloud based premium version and so have installed it on our website and am currently reviewing the data. The process of signing up and getting going was very good. It was a seamless process which only took a few minutes which is great. To have such a great platform to help you analyze and optimize data which can grow your revenue is terrific. I see this as a solid secondary source of metrics by which we can use to validate other analytic sources we currently employ such as MixPanel, Google Analytics and Microsoft Power BI. You can customize your account in a good number of ways to suit your company or organization. You can rebrand the platform which is a great way to add a touch of professionalism to your business while allowing access to clients. Clients can have a portal login for themselves in which they can check out their data which is always good. You have access to useful insight such as traffic, keyword source, bound rate and other ways to know about your campaigns. I like that you have an overview on the home page of your account with a lot metrics available at a glance such as engagement, traffic, downloads, visitor software and browser information and much more. The event log system is excellent and can be customized as well. And there is the ability to use plugins as well which is solid. There are a good amount of free plugins available to help extend your Piwik functionality by a lot. I am very impressed and found it great that you can make this much more powerful in numerous ways. And there's not anything available in the paid plugins area which is interesting though I am fine with that, of course. While there are a few free themes too including a cool dark theme which helps your data stand out and has the account be much more visual in my opinion.

As it is open source I often find it difficult to find complete documentation in one place. It seems that you do well to utilize forum searches and Google searches in general along with the documentation and resources they do have available. You can add multiple web assets to track from your account which is cool and the real time map feature is useful by sharing website or app visitor locations which could be especially helpful seasonally for example. Creating traffic and conversion reports requires a bit of effort more than other platforms perhaps. The ability to view your data from year to year or in larger segments somehow would be useful. And I find some of the export features to be limited comparatively speaking. I have read about query time out issues when analyzing reaching a certain level of event logs. And it's difficult to analyze user behavior it seems you can only do this from the access logs which have been configured.

This software is open source which is great that means it's free but you should consider that there may be a cost to have expert help implement it the most optimal way. Though the analytics themselves are the most advanced in the market for example you cannot analyze categorical conversions or segmented conversions with it's basic functionality and there would be an investment to make this happen. You can utilize this platform to analyze mobile apps and web pages, online applications and websites so it is versatile certainly. Another good things is the ability to maintain secure data on your own server as this is a local server software installation. Overall, the front end data discovery is quite good a definitely helpful especially as way to validate other platforms and you can't beat the cost as long as you are somewhat savvy or have the initiative you can get most of it running smoothly on your own quickly.

You can see everything in it as it is an Open Source Analytics software. Most of all as it is a Free software you can really do whatever you want with it.

Probably the UI in order to make it look more like Google Analytics. As a result user coming from GA will probably get their hands more easily in Piwik.

The best Open Source Analytics platform we can find. Most of analysts would not want to consider it as it looks more technical than other solutions. This is exactly why they should be interested in. Piwik is tackling issues that no other solutions can due to its Open Source aspect.

This is a multi-lingual software, fully customizable and offers more than 70 integrations with other well -known content management systems, forums, web platforms., ecommerce solutions as well as mobile platforms. It was designed as an open source analytics platform with the capability to allow users measure both web and mobile apps while protecting their privacy through its advanced privacy features. Piwik is deployed either through the cloud or on- premise option.

While its on-premise edition comes in as a free service, the SaaS edition costs a per month fee and its customer support service can only be accessed on paid email and phone service. This invariably means that users on free service cannot have access to tech support except through forums and FAQ/ knowledgebase mediums. Piwik supports multiple operating systems like the Windows, Linux and Mac.

Piwik users are allowed access to analytic details on the platform and this is done through the web interface and also on the Android/ iOS mobile app platforms. This software comes with a range of useful features such as real time data updates, privacy complaints analytics, site search analytics, web, ecommerce, intranet, app analytics, content tracking, customizable dashboard, event tracking, visitor’s journey, strong focus on software security and a host of other features. The Piwik also has a free trial version and offers consulting/ integration services with no entry level set up fee.

The amount of spam in Google Analytics had me looking for an alternative and Piwik was the obvious choice. Piwik just like Google Analytics uses a JavaScript tracking code which you need to place on your website. For Wordpress, you can use the plugin and watch the analytics from within the Wordpress dashboard. In order to setup Piwik, you will first need to install it on your web server. If you do not have access to your web server, you will need to contact your network admin to install it for you. All the data will be stored in a MySQL database and therefore, you have full control over your data. Piwik offers free as well as paid versions. The free version is feature rich as well and I have been using it in conjunction with Google Analytics on my sites. Yes, it will have an effect on the page load speed but you can have best of both worlds. Once installed Piwik provides you with real-time analytics data. If you have worked in Google Analytics then you will find it very easy to use Piwik. It practically is Google Analytics with additional features. You can also set up auto-archiving so that Piwik calculates your stats periodically rather than every time you are accessing Piwik reports. This will increase the performance and provide you with more accurate reports instantly. Unlike Google Analytics, you can create and track an unlimited number of Goals and you can use the MySQL queries to create advanced reports. Even though it is installed on your web server, you do not have to worry about updating Piwik. Whenever an update is available you will get a notification on your Piwik dashboard and you can perform an automatic update using one button click.

Piwik installation will require access to the web server and you will need to create a separate MySQL database. If you are technically challenged then you may require the help of an expert. Wordpress plugin can provide analytics in your Wordpress dashboard, however, the reports can overwhelm you at times and there are so many options available that you will be confused as to which options need to be enabled. Needs tighter integration with Google Search as you will be seeing a lot "keyword not defined" in organic traffic queries used. If you are stuck on something then Google search is your best friend rather the online documentation.

If you are looking for a good free and open source for Google Analytics then Piwik is a good option (yes it has paid version as well). If you have a good understanding of databases and are concerned about the user Privacy on your site, then you will find Piwik perfect for you. You can track multiple websites and it offers tons of customization. In the end the positives outweigh the negatives, I would highly recommned Piwik.

Piwik has an excellent platform to observe a businesses web page traffic. Users can track the activity of those visiting the page. Information like what web browsers were used, locations of the users from anywhere in the world, what pages of your website revisited, and much more. Another excellent ability of the program is users can change the Piwik logo to their company logo.

After researching the negativities of Piwik, I have found a few comments. First concern from users I've seen is the installation process is timely. The second complaint I have found is the free packages do not have access to tech support. Therefore, if users have issues, the feeling is they are pressured into purchasing the product. Although if the product is what the company is using perhaps buying a package would benefit the business best.

Overall, Piwik can track consumers activities to help companies market in the most proficient manner to get the most out of advertising money spent. Piwik does not offer a free trial; however, a free demo is provided by the company. This free demo is an excellent way to view the platform and see how Piwik works.

Don't be fooled: even if Piwik is free software, it is packed with powerful features that can revolutionize your business and increase sales and revenue. It also comes with a mobile app that lets marketers check stats and data while on the go, anytime, anywhere. One of its great features is the ability to see real time visitors on your own website. All the functions are centralized from an easy to navigate dashboard that you can customize as needed. In addition, the dashboards also enable you to see what is happening on all your websites at the same time.

Piwik is an overall excellent web analytics software and there is nothing negative about it.

Piwik is highly recommended for businesses no matter what size or industry. Piwik has numerous features that are useful and commendable. Marketers can even schedule email reports on PDF and HTML, which can be embedded into websites or apps. It is also extremely cost efficient - with Piwik you can keep all your online data without having to worry about storage limits.

Piwik is very simple to use. I adopted Piwik 4 years ago and my client noticed a massive difference with Google Analytics. It's highly customized and I've created some implementation in my apps (you can find one on http://puresourcecode.com/post/piwik-c-tracking-api). The Piwik administration is very powerful and you can find a lot of widget from reporting to geocoding.

Piwik uses PHP and MySQL and for that I must be created a dedicated machine because I'm afraid to mix Windows Server network with. Sometimes is difficult to find why Piwik has a strange behaviour but at the end if you play with the configuration, you'll find a solution (for example if you want to have a statistic for the last year, you must enable this function).

Piwik is a very powerful and customizable application, more competitive with Google Analytics. I'm using it in enterprise environment and the performance has brilliant. Another important thing is with Piwik my clients are very happy and they can use it without problems. You can customize it with your needs and it is easy to implement it in your application. Piwik can read all Google Analytics settings.

What I like the most about Piwik is that it has a lot to offer and yet, the company still tries its best to expand their features! This software has a lot of features and types of analytics based on the needs of the clients. Its four main analytics report has been categorized properly to include all the standard analytics reports. With this tool, you will get information on your visitors, even their possible purposes of visit and pages visited, in real time. The dashboard was designed in a way that you cab get a sense of what is happening with all of the other pages of the website. This tool also lets you track your goals and helps you determine where improvement is needed to meet your objectives. You can also measure interactions, impressions, track searches, locate visitors, track transitions or what the visitors did or where they went before or after a page, and display analytics. This is truly an amazing tool!

The only thing that I think needs improvement is the installation process. It was difficult to install, most especially when technical staff or ITs are not around. An expert on this things should be present because the process tends to be frustrating. But once you are done installing, everything wil be easier and faster. Your patience will be tested!

Other than the installation process, there is nothing bad about this software. Websites become effective when it is able to serve its purpose, and Piwik can help you determine if it does and help you analayze how to improve so your website functions how it should. Truly a software that helps businesses.