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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

Managing e-mail reports


Creating e-mail reports is a great way to get specific data about a website you are tracking, without visiting your Piwik installation and setting the data range and metrics each time. If you are a webmaster in charge of providing analytics data to the marketing division of your company or to clients, setting up custom e-mail reports can be the perfect way to make sure the right people get the data they need when they need it. If this is the only feedback they receive about their traffic, setting up scheduled e-mail reports can be one of the most important parts of your job. You can even choose to send the report in HTML or as a PDF file suitable for printing depending on your preferences or those of your clients.

Once you have chosen the website you are creating the report for in the Website dropdown, click the Email Reports link and we will get started with creating a report:

You will land on a pretty empty page stating that you haven't yet created any reports. Click...