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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

Allowing user sign up with the Piwik Signup plugin


One of the benefits to using an open source software solution is that many users are working together to make the software do as much if not more than any paid solution. Sometimes there may be features that most users of the software may not need, but a lot would like to have. In these cases, it is good to make sure that your software has a plugin system so that users can customize the installation to their needs.

As we saw in the previous section, Piwik does have such a plugin system. In fact, many of the features of your standard Piwik installation are plugins themselves and can be deactivated whenever you need, such as the Feedback plugin we just deactivated in the previous section. There are even some example plugins installed with Piwik to give developers something to start with.

Other plugins available for Piwik are listed on the official Piwik website. There is a list of some of these plugins as well as plugins for CMSs available at...