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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

Changing your Super User settings


You can change your user settings at any time by clicking on the Settings link in the top-right menu of Piwik, as shown in the following screenshot:

The first page that loads is the one to edit your user settings. At the top is where you can change your basic settings. This is shown in the following screenshot:

Here you can change your e-mail address and password. Once you change your password, your API token for Piwik will be reset and you must add your new API key to any software that requires it.

You can also set the default reports to load in your dashboard. You can choose the All Websites dashboard or the Dashboard for a specific website. Below that you can set the date and date range you want the reports in your dashboard to load by default, as shown in the following screenshot:

Below that is a link, that when clicked on, will exclude you from being tracked by your Piwik installation. You just click on the link and Piwik will set a cookie in your browser...