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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

A note about SSL


If you use Piwik for an e-commerce site, your website is most likely secure. There are some instances where it may not necessarily need to be, like if you use an off-site payment processor that actually takes credit card details on their page. But other than cases like this, your e-commerce site should be secured by a valid security certificate.

Because your e-commerce site is secure, you will need your Piwik installation to be secure also. If it is running on the same domain as your e-commerce website, you will have no worries. But if you are running the Piwik installation you use to track your e-commerce website on another server and domain, you will have to get a security certificate for your Piwik installation and have mod_ssl installed. Otherwise, when a visitor is on a secure part of your website and this part of the Piwik code executes, there will be an issue.

var pkBaseURL = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://YOUR_PIWIK_URL" : "http:// YOUR_PIWIK_URL...