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Better than piwik

I searched for something which could replace piwik. Cause it is not stable ( OsDate crashed with it )
I searched around and found on a blog a comment about open web analytics. A long time ago,
I saw this php website analytics tool. But I was not interested in something like this. And forogt about
this one.

Then I “re-found” it, and tested it. And I must say: Iam impressed. This tool works nearly out of the box.
You just have to make changes in the config file, related to your web-address and database settings. Add your site
Add your tracking code ( A javascript “similar” to google analytics ). And you are done, nice!

And the api looks much more “thought-out” than the one from piwik.

Here are the features from there website:

Invocation

PHP API – invoke OWA from within your PHPPHP application. This allows for an easy way to build web analytics right into your application logic.
Javascript Tag – invoke OWA from Javascript. This allows for remote logging and integration with non PHP based applications .
WordPressWordPress v2.x plugin – full featured WordPress plugin seemlessly integrates OWA with the WordPress publishing platform and administration interface
MediaWikiMediaWiki plugin – provides tracking of MediaWiki articles and special pages.

Tracking/Reporting

Track Page views, visits, and unique visitors over time
TrackTRACK reviews unique, new, repeat visitors over time
Multiple Web Site Support – track any number of web sites and view statistics in aggregate or by site
ClickClick reviews-streams – view the actual click-stream of each visitor
Click Tracking – Track where exactly on a web page users are clicking and view clicks by browser type
Click Heat Maps – view a heat map of where users are clicking on your web pages
Google MapsGoogle Maps – map your visitors on Google Maps
Google EarthGoogle Earth (KML) – view your visitors in Google Earth via a KML file export
RSS/ATOM subscription tracking – track unique feed readers, reader types, and feed requests
Visitor Aging – understand the age of your repeat visitors.
Canned and Custom Time Periods – generate reports using pre-defined reporting periods or custom date ranges
Refering Page Analysis – View the title, anchor text, and surrounding text of inbound links from refering web pages
View visits by user agent
Track entry and exit pages
Track pages by custom page types

Development

Full MVC based framework
Module framework allows developers to extend OWA’s entitiies, events, reports, and graphs without modifying the base components.
Plugin framework for authentication, database access objects, data validation, and geo-location
Object Relational Mapping layer
Lite templating layer
Event handlers

Deployment

Events can be writen to the database asynchronously.
OWA to can run on multiple front end web servers and write to a remote database.
Event Logging and admin/reporting user interface can run on the same or seperate servers

WordPress Specific Features

Track visitors by WordPress user name or e-mail address they use in comments.
Track all Wordpress Page Types (Posts, PagesPages reviews, Authors, Archives, Categories, etc.)
Track the number of comments made by visit
Reporting accessable via Admin Dashboard
Track subscribers to RSS/Atom feeds