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 PHP 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 .
• WordPress v2.x plugin – full featured WordPress plugin seemlessly integrates OWA with the WordPress publishing platform and administration interface
• MediaWiki plugin – provides tracking of MediaWiki articles and special pages.

Tracking/Reporting

• Track Page views, visits, and unique visitors over time
• Track unique, new, repeat visitors over time
• Multiple Web Site Support – track any number of web sites and view statistics in aggregate or by site
• Click-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 Maps – map your visitors on Google Maps
• Google 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, Pages, 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!

LINKS:
http://www.crawltrack.net/

http://www.openwebanalytics.com/

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Just found out: OsDate dosnt like piwik. If you add the piwik javasript. OsDate stops working. Maybe I will look into it. Or I will use crawltrack. Looks very promising.  Cause it dosnt output any javascript or anything else. The script is only executed at server side. But it limits the information you could gather. For example no “click heat map”… But it should work with nearly every software you could think of. Without the javascript problems The another interesting thing is that  crawltrack tries to protect your site against hackers and intrusions. But I dont know how far they are with this protection and how good it is….

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