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
MediaWiki Specific Features
- Track article , catageory and special pages.
- Track all visitors by user name and email address.
Quite impressive, eh? 
now I run crawltrack for, uhm, well crawler things. And OWA for website statistics.
The only problem so far is the “click-map/ heat map” It shows the click points. But not the website.
I hope they will fix this “small” issue
I dont know, why this both programs are not more popular? Together,
they create a VERY strong team!
LINKSLinks reviews:
http://www.crawltrack.net/
http://www.openwebanalytics.com/
