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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

Analysing reports


Now that you have all these reports, you may be wondering what to do with them. The simple answer is make the conversions, conversion rate, and revenue go up. Most websites are losing out on revenue because they don't change anything to increase their conversion rate. With Piwik, you have a tool where you can test changes and see the results in a few days to a few weeks depending on your daily traffic. There is always room for improvement and always tests to do.

  • Increase the visibility of your top performing product and see if revenue increases

  • Change the prices on a product and see if there is a sales goal increase

  • Reword a sales page and see if conversions pick up

  • Try a special offer or coupon and see if revenue increases

  • Add a bonus to a product and see if the conversion rate is better

  • Move your newsletter subscription form above the fold of your page and see if you get more subscriptions

  • Add a product guarantee and see if you sell more of that product

  • Add testimonials and see...