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Piwik 3.0.0
- the_duke 10y agoDown. Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://piwik.org/changelog/piwik-3-0-0/ http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://... For those that don't know: Piwik is a open source Google Analytics alternative.
- thde 10y agoOr here: https://archive.fo/http://piwik.org/changelog/piwik-3-0-0/ https://archive.fo/http://piwik.org/changelog/piwik-3-0-0/
- jagermo 10y agoIts great to see Piwik so active. I've been using it since version 0.xsomething. Its realiable, works great with my websites and I really like having an alternative to Analytics with a nice UI that I can host myself. Cheers Piwik, keep doing what you are doing. And all the best with the new marketplace.
- oelmekki 10y agoI love piwik, I find it way easier to use than google analytics. One thing interesting in it, nowadays: you have direct access to data in database. This is priceless to find data to feed neural networks.
- paradite 10y agoOne thing I liked about Piwik was their API documentation. Short and simple, and the examples are using actual data, meaning you will get a url of that API returning the live data in your database for you to inspect, right from the documentation page. Of course all of this is possible because you are self-hosting the Piwik on your server, but it is a good feature that I really liked.
- nik736 10y agoSite is down, any screenshots? :-)
- CodingGuy 10y agoDropped Google Analytics two years ago for Piwik and don't regret it. Keep up the good work!
- jblok 10y agoThis is actually the first time I've heard of Piwik but it seems like a great alternative to Google Analytics/Mixpanel/etc. Kudos to them for also finding a business model alongside the open source application. That set up usually lends itself to long running OSS as there is (hopefully) always money coming in.
- Spone 10y agoQuestion to other Piwik users: how do you manage the ever-growing MySQL database to keep response times acceptable? Where do you host it? My Piwik instance is nearly unusable because any non-trivial request takes ages.
- user5994461 10y ago> how do you manage the ever-growing MySQL database to keep response times acceptable? We stopped using MySQL. Or to word it differently, we stopped using Piwik. They lived together, they died together.
- degenerate 10y agoAlso: What works best at scale? JS or Log file analytics?
- user5994461 10y agoYou need both. JS is to track clients and do analytics. Logs are for debugging, security and some trivial form of analytics.
- mattab 10y agoSetup cron archiving is a must: http://piwik.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/ http://piwik.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/ For scaling tracking, QueuedTracking plugin is the solution: http://piwik.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/ http://piwik.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/ For managing DB size, see: https://piwik.org/docs/managing-your-databases-size/ https://piwik.org/docs/managing-your-databases-size/ For any other issue, maybe report in Github tracker: https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues
- bildung 10y agoHave you enabled auto-archieving? Have a look here: http://piwik.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/ http://piwik.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/ If that isn't enough http://piwik.org/docs/optimize-how-to/ http://piwik.org/docs/optimize-how-to/ shows you how to configure php and mysql for more performance. Actual hardware requirements are quite small for small sites (say < 10k visitors/day). Any 10-15$ VPS should be fine.
- elcct 10y agoIs it still unusable for sites with traffic?
- mattab 10y agoPiwik now works on websites with 100M pageviews per month and more (much more) with the right setup
- user5994461 10y agoSo to answer the original question: Nope, doesn't work. (Quick test: if you're counting page views in millions per day, you're gonna have a tough time).
- mattab 10y agoPiwik does scale to millions of pages per month. We've managed installs of Piwik at _1 billion_ pages per month that's 30 million per day! Don't believe what you read on Hacker News ;-)
- buremba 10y agoHow it handles that traffic? It would be great if they could share the architecture because using Mysql for analytics is not easy, you can't expect Mysql to handle concurrent queries that needs to aggregate billions of records when I visit the dashboard.
- LinuxFreedom 10y agoNo, not usable in real life. Old-school PHP bloat that will slow down your site. Bonus: breaks occasionally on updates. Developers not willing to learn techniques needed for a quick logger with minimal impact. Run away from people using this with high traffic sites in a still-2005-PHP-mindset.
- heyalexej 10y agoSo what would you suggest as an alternative?
- Antwan 10y agoNo Postgres, no Piwik.
- napsterbr 10y agoPiwik is a great alternative to Google analytics, can't recommend them enough. On my websites I really like the option to track visits directly from the log file. It isn't as detailed as js tracking, but gives accurate number of visits (not altered by ghostery / privacy plugins).
- ksec 10y agoI am surprised at so many comment using it as Log File Analytics rather then JS setup. If you want Log File Analytic, you should definitely give GoAccess a try. https://goaccess.io/ https://goaccess.io/
- aargh_aargh 10y agoThanks, that seems useful.
- SnaKeZ 10y agoI'm using Piwik for JS tracking (pageviews, searches and external links) and Goaccess for apache log (http statistics updated every 3 hours), great combo!
- cookiecaper 10y agoHeads up that the goaccess in Ubuntu's universe repo is woefully out of date, so DON'T apt-get install it. Download and build from source - you'll get a much better experience. I've noticed this with several other packages in universe recently too, it seems to be updated much less than you'd expect. It's a community-maintained repo, but you'd think the Ubuntu community is large enough to stay on top of some of this stuff. As it stands, the redis in universe on 14.04 has had unpatched security issues for at least 2 years.
- tombrossman 10y agoGoAccess have a PPA for Ubuntu / Debian as well: https://goaccess.io/download#official-repo https://goaccess.io/download#official-repo
- darfs 10y agoMost PPAs breaks my APT or doesn't even share the same required libs. For debian most PPAs that are initially setup for Ubuntu feel useless.
- codehusker 10y ago
- aorth 10y agoGreat news, thanks. The automatic upgrade from 2.17.1 to 3.0.0 went smoothly on my small instance tracking four personal sites.
- fuzzy-logic 10y agoIs there a way to have piwik analyze mail server logs? Slightly OT, but if not do folks have a favorite mail log analyzer (for Postfix/amavis, etc)?
- Karunamon 10y agoI think Piwik is straight up web stuff.. It wouldn't be all that hard to set up an Elasticsearch/Kibana instance and then throw your maillogs into it.
- rhapsodyv 10y agoPiwik is an awesome tool. But today I'm only using their JS Tracker to send requests to a pool of nginx servers. The event logs are parsed with Fluentd and saved in a mongodb instance. After that, a proccess do some aggregations and put in my postgresql (app db). We have this setup because we run our custom and specific analytics for a lot of clients. Do anyone have a similar setup and have some experiences or hints to share?
- finid 10y agoHow do you verify the integrity of the Piwik zip file you download?
- Semiapies 10y agoI clicked to see what exactly it was, and I was delighted to see a "What is Piwik?" heading in the sidebar. A nice bit of site design.
- syednayab 10y agoSimply the best
- syednayab 10y agoSimply best