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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

Viewing Goals overview reports


The Goal overview report will allow you to see the stats on all your goals for a chosen website. It combines the data for a broad overview of how your website is converting.

At the top of the page is a chart of your conversions across time. Using the Date range drop-down, you can set your date range as discussed in Chapter 2, Using Piwik's Interface and Reports. You can also add other metrics to the chart to see more data simultaneously.

The metrics available are:

  • Conversions

  • Conversion Rate

  • Total Revenue

The following is an example of the graph with the conversion rate added. Notice that conversion rate percentages of 8 percent and 4 percent also appeared on the left-hand side of the chart with the new line.

Below the chart, on the left-hand side, you will notice the familiar buttons for modifying and using your chart. The first button will change the chart style to a bar graph. The second button will allow you to export the data in CSV, TSV (Excel), XML, Json...