Piwik - advantages and disadvantages
Earlier on Habré were publications about piwik, for example:
also several other references.
Everyone writes about the same thing:
1) Piwik - positioned as an open-source project (GPL license) works on php and mysql.
2) Among its advantages, the creators single out: an open API, the ability to write and add plug-ins, a customizable look, and so on.
3) Mention the statement of the creators of Pivik, that Piwik is an alternative to Google Analytics.
If you look at the graph of the growth of interest in the word piwik www.google.com/trends?q=piwik, then the flash of interest in 2008 and growth during the year are obvious.
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Now there has been some lull in growth, but this is not the point, but the fact that such a large number of people cannot be mistaken, piwik deserves to be paid attention to.
About half a year ago I downloaded and installed Piwik for personal use, and now I want to share my practical experience - the found pros and cons.
1) free, open source, written in php
that's what I need
2) because pivik is installed on your site, developers do not have access to your statistics
for someone this item is very important
3) easy installation
no more than 5 minutes
4) statistics can be maintained on several of your sites, the meter is easily installed
And to view all of their sites in one place, it is also very convenient to switch to viewing the next site.
In addition, there is a plugin for viewing on one page a cut-down statistics on all sites at once, of course, with the transition to detailed information.
5) simple installation of informers on the main page of the pivik village
Just a few clicks.
6) a sufficient number of types of informers
there are other informers, but these are enough for me
7) really high-quality api
Enjoyed the truth only once. It was necessary to programmatically add sites to the statistics system, it took 5 minutes to find how to do this.
Despite all the advantages of pivik there are also disadvantages, it is not surprising, the product is actively developing.
1) For example informer "countries of visitors"
Surely anyone would expect to see the figures for the countries calculated on the basis of IP addresses.
But as it turned out, the calculation goes according to the included keyboard layout, in my opinion it is not very correct, but some people probably consider this a feature.
2) Continuing to dig up the theme of the countries, I found on their forum how to install GeoIP , I made this functionality a third-party developer, installed everything was gut, but after the update it stopped working. It is a pity that GeoIP is not built by default.
3) Informers are located on a page in 3 columns, some informers simply do not fit in the allotted width and you can’t see the whole informer completely
4) Informer "List of keywords" sometimes words or some letters are distorted into cracks , always observed in the Kazakh language and sometimes in Russian
5) Informer search engines. Almost perfect, but does not work well with Rambler , if you click on the link, you will get to the Rambler page where the request is entered in a different encoding.
6) Live Visitors Informer (Alpha), according to the authors' idea, should update the information about the visitors who have just arrived by ajax , and so sometimes there are problems with cleaning the list and the list of the same visitors is inserted into a large sheet several times. I had to disable this informer.
7) In all list informers, if the list item contains a hidden add. info sometimes there is a glitch, shows add. info of other list items .
For example, we open Google requests, and Yandex requests are shown to us.
Despite all the shortcomings, I like Piwik very much, I am sure that with each new version there will be less and less glitches, and in a year or two there will not be any disadvantages.
http://piwik.org/ - the official site of the Pivik project
also several other references.
Everyone writes about the same thing:
1) Piwik - positioned as an open-source project (GPL license) works on php and mysql.
2) Among its advantages, the creators single out: an open API, the ability to write and add plug-ins, a customizable look, and so on.
3) Mention the statement of the creators of Pivik, that Piwik is an alternative to Google Analytics.
If you look at the graph of the growth of interest in the word piwik www.google.com/trends?q=piwik, then the flash of interest in 2008 and growth during the year are obvious.
')
Now there has been some lull in growth, but this is not the point, but the fact that such a large number of people cannot be mistaken, piwik deserves to be paid attention to.
About half a year ago I downloaded and installed Piwik for personal use, and now I want to share my practical experience - the found pros and cons.
Pluses pivik:
1) free, open source, written in php
that's what I need
2) because pivik is installed on your site, developers do not have access to your statistics
for someone this item is very important
3) easy installation
no more than 5 minutes
4) statistics can be maintained on several of your sites, the meter is easily installed
And to view all of their sites in one place, it is also very convenient to switch to viewing the next site.
In addition, there is a plugin for viewing on one page a cut-down statistics on all sites at once, of course, with the transition to detailed information.
5) simple installation of informers on the main page of the pivik village
Just a few clicks.
6) a sufficient number of types of informers
- schedule of visitors by day, month, year
- length of visits by time spent on the site
- country visitors
- browsers
- keyword list
- list of external sites (from where the user came to your site)
- pages - what page of your site has been viewed how many times
- search engines
- server time visits
there are other informers, but these are enough for me
7) really high-quality api
Enjoyed the truth only once. It was necessary to programmatically add sites to the statistics system, it took 5 minutes to find how to do this.
Despite all the advantages of pivik there are also disadvantages, it is not surprising, the product is actively developing.
Cons pivik:
1) For example informer "countries of visitors"
Surely anyone would expect to see the figures for the countries calculated on the basis of IP addresses.
But as it turned out, the calculation goes according to the included keyboard layout, in my opinion it is not very correct, but some people probably consider this a feature.
2) Continuing to dig up the theme of the countries, I found on their forum how to install GeoIP , I made this functionality a third-party developer, installed everything was gut, but after the update it stopped working. It is a pity that GeoIP is not built by default.
3) Informers are located on a page in 3 columns, some informers simply do not fit in the allotted width and you can’t see the whole informer completely
4) Informer "List of keywords" sometimes words or some letters are distorted into cracks , always observed in the Kazakh language and sometimes in Russian
5) Informer search engines. Almost perfect, but does not work well with Rambler , if you click on the link, you will get to the Rambler page where the request is entered in a different encoding.
6) Live Visitors Informer (Alpha), according to the authors' idea, should update the information about the visitors who have just arrived by ajax , and so sometimes there are problems with cleaning the list and the list of the same visitors is inserted into a large sheet several times. I had to disable this informer.
7) In all list informers, if the list item contains a hidden add. info sometimes there is a glitch, shows add. info of other list items .
For example, we open Google requests, and Yandex requests are shown to us.
Despite all the shortcomings, I like Piwik very much, I am sure that with each new version there will be less and less glitches, and in a year or two there will not be any disadvantages.
http://piwik.org/ - the official site of the Pivik project
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/76791/
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