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Piwik is an open source web analytics software that gives its users detailed reports on their websites pageviews, visitors, search engine keywords, popular pages and more. Their goal is to be an open source web analytics software that is a good alternative to Google Analytics.

Here are some of the features from their site that make this, in my opinion, a nice web analytics software:

• The features are built inside plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need. If you are a developer, you can easily build your own plugins.
• You own your data. Piwik being installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database and you can get all the statistics using open APIs (publishing the data in many formats: xml, json, php, csv)
• The user interface is fully customizable, you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display, create the reports you want.

If you want to check out Piwik in action then you can take a look at their online demo, which is based off the latest release. If you like the demo then you can easily download the latest release, upload it to your webserver and be using it in a matter of minutes. Just be sure that you have at least PHP 5.1 and a MySQL database.

I have been using Google Analytics since I started this website, and more then likely will continue to do so. However, after taking a look at the online demo I am definitely going to give Piwik a try. It will be sometime this weekend before I will be able to get it up and going, but once I do I will post back with a review of this software. If you get a chance to download and try it, or if you are currently using it, please leave a comment on what you think about Piwik.

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