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Piwik Web Analytics Essentials

By : Stephan A. Miller
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Piwik Web Analytics Essentials

By: Stephan A. Miller

Overview of this book

<p>Without web analytics, you are blind on the internet. In order to improve conversions and revenue on your web- site, you need to know what is going on. Piwik gives you this data and unlike Google Analytics, gives you total control over its usage. Unlike Google analytics where the data can be read by Google, Piwik maintains complete confidentiality of your website data. By harnessing the power of your tracked data, you can raise the conversion rates on your website to new heights.<br /><br />"Piwik Web Analytics Essentials" will show you how to install Piwik Open Source Analytics and have you tracking your website’s visitors within an hour after you pick up the book! After that, you will learn how to track custom events and programmatically trigger tracking events. The book continues with ecommerce tracking and advanced Piwik API usage.<br /><br />This book will take you from installing Piwik on your web server to writing custom tracking code for your apps.<br /><br />You will learn goal and event tracking techniques and how to add them to your standard tracking to fine tune your analytics results. Nothing is untrackable using Piwik: ecommerce shopping carts, web apps, phone apps, and more can make use of Piwik tracking capabilities.<br /><br />"Piwik Web Analytics Essentials" will walk you through every step with detailed screenshots and plenty of example code.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Piwik Web Analytics Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 2. Using Piwik's Interface and Reports

Every website owner wants to increase and improve the traffic to their website. The first step in doing this is understanding and interpreting the data that our visitors provide for us. Fortunately, Piwik takes care of a lot of this with easy to understand reports, tables, and charts giving us more time to take actions to improve our traffic based on the data. In order to accomplish this, we need to get to know the user interface of Piwik. Most of the pages in Piwik are composed of widgets that we can add, remove, and customize to our specific needs once we get to know more about Piwik in this chapter.

In later chapters, we will be adding more features to the interface of Piwik by tracking goals and setting up e-commerce tracking that will only be available after setup. In this chapter, we will cover only the details of the interface available right after installation.

In this chapter, we will learn to:

  • Use Piwik's menus to navigate to the report...