[Piwik-hackers] General Question about how piwik works

[Issac Kelly]

Perfect! Thanks

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Matthieu Aubry <matthieu.aubry at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  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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