Comments for U-R-Reality - The blog about me http://www.u-r-reality.de And the United-Regions Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:00:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Better than piwik by Mike http://www.u-r-reality.de/2009/07/better-than-piwik/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Mike Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:00:03 +0000 http://www.u-r-reality.de/?p=23#comment-25 How do you track conversions (monetary and non-monetary) in OWA? And does it work with https secured pages?<br><br>Thanks! How do you track conversions (monetary and non-monetary) in OWA? And does it work with https secured pages?

Thanks!

]]> Comment on Better than piwik by robocoder http://www.u-r-reality.de/2009/07/better-than-piwik/comment-page-1/#comment-24 robocoder Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:47:44 +0000 http://www.u-r-reality.de/?p=23#comment-24 I doubt Piwik "crashed" OsDate.<br><br>OsDate uses Smarty as its templating system. To insert the Piwik tracking code (or even the Google Analytics tracking code) into OsDate templates, you have to wrap the JavaScript inside Smarty's {literal} ... {/literal} tags.<br><br>That said, I like both Piwik and OWA -- either would be a good choice.<br><br>As for CrawlTrack ... why don't you create an OWA plugin for that? I doubt Piwik “crashed” OsDate.

OsDate uses Smarty as its templating system. To insert the Piwik tracking code (or even the Google Analytics tracking code) into OsDate templates, you have to wrap the JavaScript inside Smarty's {literal} … {/literal} tags.

That said, I like both Piwik and OWA — either would be a good choice.

As for CrawlTrack … why don't you create an OWA plugin for that?

]]> Comment on Better than piwik by Peter Adams http://www.u-r-reality.de/2009/07/better-than-piwik/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Peter Adams Thu, 14 Jan 2010 08:48:50 +0000 http://www.u-r-reality.de/?p=23#comment-23 I'm sorry to hear you had issues with your OWA install. Can you share any errors that you encountered with me so we can get them fixed and incorporated into the final release? I can be reached at <a href="http://peter%5Bat%5Dopenwebanalytics.com" rel="nofollow">peter[at]openwebanalytics.com</a> and would greatly appreciate it. thanks again. I'm sorry to hear you had issues with your OWA install. Can you share any errors that you encountered with me so we can get them fixed and incorporated into the final release? I can be reached at peter[at]openwebanalytics.com and would greatly appreciate it. thanks again.

]]> Comment on Better than piwik by andrewsuth http://www.u-r-reality.de/2009/07/better-than-piwik/comment-page-1/#comment-22 andrewsuth Thu, 14 Jan 2010 07:49:01 +0000 http://www.u-r-reality.de/?p=23#comment-22 I just spent the last few hours trying both Open Web Analytics 1.2.1rc1 then Piwik 0.5.4.<br><br>First impressions:<br>Open Web Analytics was very fiddly to install. I had to go into some of the PHP code and correct the mistakes as it was unusable out-of-the-box (simple PHP mistakes!). As far as the features go, they sound really good on paper but you'll soon be stopped by the clunky and not so pretty UI of OWA which seemed to frequently spit out errors. Documentation? Forget about it, it's like trying to find a needle in a hay stack.<br>On a positive not, I did really like the video play back option but it still needs a lot of work.<br><br>Piwik on the other hand was quick and easy to install, I had it up and running in 5 mins. The GUI is smooth and works like a charm - not a single error or additional download needed for it. As far as doc go, they were easy to find and had a lot of useful information and help - not that you'll need it as it's all very straight forward to get up and running.<br><br>I'll be keeping with Piwik, thank you very much. I just spent the last few hours trying both Open Web Analytics 1.2.1rc1 then Piwik 0.5.4.

First impressions:
Open Web Analytics was very fiddly to install. I had to go into some of the PHP code and correct the mistakes as it was unusable out-of-the-box (simple PHP mistakes!). As far as the features go, they sound really good on paper but you'll soon be stopped by the clunky and not so pretty UI of OWA which seemed to frequently spit out errors. Documentation? Forget about it, it's like trying to find a needle in a hay stack.
On a positive not, I did really like the video play back option but it still needs a lot of work.

Piwik on the other hand was quick and easy to install, I had it up and running in 5 mins. The GUI is smooth and works like a charm – not a single error or additional download needed for it. As far as doc go, they were easy to find and had a lot of useful information and help – not that you'll need it as it's all very straight forward to get up and running.

I'll be keeping with Piwik, thank you very much.

]]> Comment on Better than piwik by Peter Adams http://www.u-r-reality.de/2009/07/better-than-piwik/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Peter Adams Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:03:49 +0000 http://www.u-r-reality.de/?p=23#comment-21 OWA 1.2.1rc1 is out if you want to give it a whirl. Includes a number of fixes and a number of new features including a revamped heatmap module. If anyone finds a bug in OWA please just report it on <a href="http://trac.openwebanalytics.com" rel="nofollow">http://trac.openwebanalytics.com</a> and we'll get it fixed and help you troubleshoot the install. OWA 1.2.1rc1 is out if you want to give it a whirl. Includes a number of fixes and a number of new features including a revamped heatmap module. If anyone finds a bug in OWA please just report it on http://trac.openwebanalytics.com and we'll get it fixed and help you troubleshoot the install.

]]> Comment on OsDate and Piwik problem/ crawltrack by shane67 http://www.u-r-reality.de/2009/07/osdate-and-piwik-crawltrack/comment-page-1/#comment-19 shane67 Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:13:35 +0000 http://www.u-r-reality.de/?p=16#comment-19 I find the same issue as well with piwik / osdate. I wanted to use piwik because it looks very cool. i will try the suggestions above, thanks for the tips! I find the same issue as well with piwik / osdate. I wanted to use piwik because it looks very cool. i will try the suggestions above, thanks for the tips!

]]> Comment on Better than piwik by Agriculture Guide http://www.u-r-reality.de/2009/07/better-than-piwik/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Agriculture Guide Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:30:51 +0000 http://www.u-r-reality.de/?p=23#comment-17 i want to learn which one is really better ? i want to learn which one is really better ?

]]> Comment on Better than piwik by Q-efx http://www.u-r-reality.de/2009/07/better-than-piwik/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Q-efx Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:54:54 +0000 http://www.u-r-reality.de/?p=23#comment-16 Strange, I had similar problems with piwik. ( Thats why I searched for something better :) )<br><br>But, I as I wrote: You should test before use. <br><br>And at this moment I use owa on a vserver with php5, no problems so far... Maybe it uses a module which is missing? Strange, I had similar problems with piwik. ( Thats why I searched for something better :) )

But, I as I wrote: You should test before use.

And at this moment I use owa on a vserver with php5, no problems so far… Maybe it uses a module which is missing?

]]> Comment on Better than piwik by Guest http://www.u-r-reality.de/2009/07/better-than-piwik/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Guest Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:08:56 +0000 http://www.u-r-reality.de/?p=23#comment-15 Thanks for your suggestion to look at OWA, but I'm not impressed.<br><br>I'm running Piwik for some time and it's a lot more polished, usable and mature.<br><br>Open Web Analytics was very difficult to install (error installing the database scheme, where I had to dig deep into the code to fix this - appears to work with PHP4 only).<br>After having installed it (which included more fixes), and setting up a workaround to make the AJAX requests work between subdomains / crossdomain, the backend is a joke.. there are apparently other problems left, since domain names show up empty, first visit is from 3606 days ago etc.<br>I've been interested in reports about Exit Pages and the clickheat map, but neither works for me (in the Click Map Report I get the OWA login).<br><br>Maybe something stupid as having missed a required "http://" when setting up the domain _name_ happened..?!<br><br>I'll send the fixes I've done so far to the team/author, but will stay with Piwik. Thanks for your suggestion to look at OWA, but I'm not impressed.

I'm running Piwik for some time and it's a lot more polished, usable and mature.

Open Web Analytics was very difficult to install (error installing the database scheme, where I had to dig deep into the code to fix this – appears to work with PHP4 only).
After having installed it (which included more fixes), and setting up a workaround to make the AJAX requests work between subdomains / crossdomain, the backend is a joke.. there are apparently other problems left, since domain names show up empty, first visit is from 3606 days ago etc.
I've been interested in reports about Exit Pages and the clickheat map, but neither works for me (in the Click Map Report I get the OWA login).

Maybe something stupid as having missed a required “http://” when setting up the domain _name_ happened..?!

I'll send the fixes I've done so far to the team/author, but will stay with Piwik.

]]> Comment on Some things I learned in web-development by Q-efx http://www.u-r-reality.de/2009/08/some-things-i-learned-in-web-development/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Q-efx Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:52:59 +0000 http://www.u-r-reality.de/?p=52#comment-14 Ok sent both of you a key hf :) Ok sent both of you a key hf :)

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