This is the last snapshot of open source Piwik PRO, it's no longer maintained, so please don't use it. We've migrated to a new, proprietary platform, its cloud "Core" version is available for free here.
Piwik is the leading Free/Libre open analytics platform.
Piwik is a full featured PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. At the end of the five minute installation process you will be given a JavaScript code. Simply copy and paste this tag on websites you wish to track and access your analytics reports in real time.
Piwik aims to be a Free software alternative to Google Analytics, and is already used on more than 1,000,000 websites. Privacy is built-in!
« To create, as a community, the leading international Free/Libre web analytics platform, providing access to all functionality through open components and open APIs. »
Or in short:
« Liberate Web Analytics »
Piwik is released under the GPL v3 (or later) license, see misc/gpl-3.0.txt
- PHP 5.5.9 or greater
- MySQL version 5.5 or greater, or MariaDB
- PHP extension pdo and pdo_mysql, or the MySQLi extension.
- Piwik is OS / server independent
- Upload piwik to your webserver
- Point your browser to the directory
- Follow the steps
- Add the given javascript code to your pages
- (You may also generate fake data to experiment, by enabling the plugin VisitorGenerator)
The Piwik project uses an ever-expanding comprehensive set of thousands of unit tests and hundreds of automated integration tests, system tests, JavaScript tests, and screenshot UI tests, running on a continuous integration server as part of its software quality assurance.
We use BrowserStack.com testing tool to help check the Piwik user interface is compatible with many browsers.
Security is a top priority at Piwik. As potential issues are discovered, we validate, patch and release fixes as quickly as we can. We have a security bug bounty program in place that rewards researchers for finding security issues and disclosing them to us.