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Ask Soylent: FOSS Equivalent to "Google Analytics"

posted by janrinok on Tuesday August 04 2015, @05:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the tell-it-like-it-is dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Hello Soylentils. I work in the IT Department of a mid sized utility company. Our engineering department requested that we use Google Analytics to track how people are hitting certain pages, from where, and whether or not they are getting to pages from links on our website or directly. A co worker found that Google Analytics can get expensive. Does anyone have any experience with any FOSS alternatives such as the ones listed in the article below?

http://opensource.com/business/14/10/top-3-open-source-alternatives-google-analytics

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by tibman on Tuesday August 04 2015, @05:38PM

    by tibman (134) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 04 2015, @05:38PM (#217993)

    I could swear SN use to have piwik running? *Searches* Yup, here is NCommander's post on it: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/06/06/1923229 [soylentnews.org]

    It doesn't appear to be running anymore though.

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @06:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 04 2015, @06:43PM (#218023)

    We've been using piwik for our sites for several years. Haven't had any issues with it, plus it works in real-time. The data tends to build up, but the software is very complete and very responsive when viewing reports/stats/whathaveyou.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by NCommander on Tuesday August 04 2015, @11:55PM

    by NCommander (2) Subscriber Badge <michael@casadevall.pro> on Tuesday August 04 2015, @11:55PM (#218228) Homepage Journal

    It was only temporary, and we took it down after we collected the data we wanted. It may reappear in the future after we give heads up to the community.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:59AM

    by TheRaven (270) on Wednesday August 05 2015, @08:59AM (#218406) Journal
    piwik has a pretty poor security record [cvedetails.com]. We considered deploying it for FreeBSD.org, but couldn't devote the manpower to ensuring that it was run safely.
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