Hi Guys,
I would like to know which is best suited for displaying visitor stats in our websites
The key areas under our consideration are
1. User Count
2. Unique User Count
3. User Location
Regards,
naveenj
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Piwik is a self-hosted, Open Source competitor to Google Analytics written in PHP.
It can do 1) and 2) no problem.
The one thing it doesn't seem to be doing, at least not out of the box, is user location on city or at least regional level. It can get the country and the online provider, but nothing more detailed. Google's geolocation is probably unbeatable here.
The huge advantage of a self-hosted solution over something like Google Analytics is obviously that no third party gets hold of visitor data.
Pekka
2010-07-10 09:13:18
+1 Nice link - I've not seen Piwik before.
Mike
2010-07-10 09:29:41
@pekka > thanks for the link. i was looking for google analytics getting confirmed. Will surely check out piwik but didnt like the fact that the piwik.org is down now(404). Thank you
naveen
2010-07-13 10:54:27
@naveen you're welcome. I'm looking to use Piwik where I can, mainly out of privacy concerns. GA is fine, though, I use it in many projects myself, and they have a lot of interesting features. Piwik.org works for me right now, try again!
Pekka
2010-07-13 11:11:52
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Google Analytics - Now they also have numerous API so you can get all the data you want through PHP/your server.
Christian Sciberras
2010-07-10 09:54:22
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Take a look at http://welant.com Its unique feature is Custom Report Builder allows getting web site analysis more accurate and demonstrative.
dmsoft
2010-10-05 12:22:02