Piwik hits 1.0 - Open source web analytics

I've used piwik, it really powers the way you can do in-house analytics. Real time, javascript based tracking - no need to wait for data to accumulate. Plugin model makes it highly flexible and extensible. Module Design is very good.<p>I wanted something to analyze existing log data and could quickly write a small extension to do that. Creating new views or data points were straight forward too. Could easily integrating a simple external package like statviz.<p>Wasn't very fast processing data in bulk - 20 minutes to process 200K visits. But this was like a year ago. Ofcourse php, Zend db has its limitations with data processing and if the fact table and aggregate creation is rewritten in perl, C++ or something and done at predefined intervals without doing a running average it can handle fairly large amounts of data I suppose.

I've been using this for a few weeks and it is really solid. It feels nice to have my analytics data on my own server instead of the GOOG's.<p>Now they only have access to <i>almost</i> all of my data...

Piwik is nice; another open source tool worth looking at is Open Web Analytics, <a href="http://www.openwebanalytics.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.openwebanalytics.com/</a>. Both have their advantages and are both under active development.

The real power of GA is watching it scale to handle 100mm+ monthly pageviews. Can Piwik do this?

Dealbreaker for me: Piwik cannot do page-specific stats.<p>Everything else was in Piwik's favor, but I'm going to have to use GA because of this one requirement.

Sounds like there could be a trade-off between using resources on your own server to keep track of these analytics versus just having Google do it. But then maybe it is insignificant.<p>Anyone has some stats on how much hit on the server it is doing?

Been using it myself since... around 0.2 or so, very satisfied.<p>The upgrades were painless too, which was a nice surprise - I expected a few hickups during the earlier releases, but found none.

Just wondering: does anyone know of a mere log analysis tool, that would just look at Apache's logs? What data would I miss, compared to Javascript or PHP based tracking?<p>I'm asking because I'm looking for a non-invasive method, which I could use on old logs if possible.

I used slimstat (w/ PHP) a while back, and it was pretty decent. I wonder how they compare...

An amazing product that I've been following for the last year has reached the 1.0 milestone.<p>I don't use GA so can't comment on feature parity. Importantly (for me) it has a powerful API, plugin architecture, easy integration, dead easy multi-site configuration.<p>I can't speak highly enough of this product.