Sunday, January 8, 2012

Do you know your web success?

Measuring how successful your website is proving to be is
essential to getting the best out of your web presence. Piwik, one
of our 100+ Free 1-click Installs provides detailed reports on your
website traffic via a modular drag-and-drop, dashboard style
interface. Available on all our Linux hosting packages, Piwik aims
to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics. Benefits All
visitor statistics are available to you and stored in your own
MySQL database - not 'in the cloud' Modular drag-and-drop dashboard
interface Extensive API for querying visitor data How it works
Piwik works in a similar fashion to Google Analytics: you add your
website to it, output a piece of code (Javascript) and then insert
this code into your website pages. The reports run in real time, so
you should start seeing visitor data as soon as you have added the
tracking code to the page. Interface The interface itself is slick
and easy to use without any clutter; if you have used Google
Analytics before then the dashboard layout will feel familiar. The
dashboard is widget based and you can drag and drop modules around,
so you can customise it as you wish by removing the modules that
you don't want and adding those that you do. Reports You can output
reports in various formats such as charts, graphs or tag clouds and
switch between them in a couple of clicks. Data can be exported as
CSV, TSV (for MS Excel) XML, JSON, PHP or as an RSS feed. A nice
feature (especially for SEO) is that you can set up daily, weekly
or monthly automated email reports that include a PDF of the
reports that you specify - perfect for keeping your clients (or
your boss ;) ) in the loop. Plugins Piwik provides a bunch of
different APIs that you can use for querying the visitor data
collected. There is also extensive documentation at the Piwik
developer zone, so as long as you know a bit of PHP you can quickly
get started. Support Support is provided through an active forum
and there is also an FAQ on their website. How to install It just
takes a couple of seconds to install with 1-Click - you can search
for it or find it under Polls and Surveys in the 1-Click section of
your Online Control Panel

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