[Piwik-hackers] General Question about how piwik works

[Matthieu Aubry]

Hi Issac,
Piwik works by adding a javascript snippet to your pages. Each page 
request will call a piwik.php file that will record visitors data in the 
DB.
Overhead is null if Piwik is installed on another server.
If Piwik is installed on the same webserver as your website, it adds 
some php processing, and mysql data storage.


Issac Kelly wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm looking for a stats program, and piwik looks the most promising as 
> far as usability and features. I have a couple of questions about how 
> it works.
>
> Is piwik a log-analysis program, one of those JS-include programs 
> (like google-analytics) or some hybrid? I guess in a more generalized 
> way.. what's the catch? where is the overhead? What happens when I 
> make a page call and piwik is installed?
>
> Essentially I'm looking for a solution for what is more or less a 
> shared hosting environment.
> I write a hosted web-management system that includes CMS, hosting, 
> e-mail, e-mail lists, form submission tracking, etc, etc, and I've 
> been looking for web analyitics.
>
> I'm quite new to the analytics scene, and I'm looking at Urchin, and 
> Piwik primarily, Urchin has the advantage of being of considerable 
> maturity..and being backed by the big G...and the HUGE disadvantages 
> of being closed and expensive.
>
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