Piwik

# open source web analytics

http://piwik.org/

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  • Stopping Referrer Spam

    13 mai 2015, par Piwik Core Team — Community

    In this blog post we explain what is Referrer spam, this new kind of spam that has recently appeared on the Internet. We also provide solutions to stop it and preserve the quality of your analytics data.

    What is Referrer Spam?

    Referrer spam (also known as log spam or referrer bombing) is a kind of spamming aimed at web analytics tools. A spammer bot makes repeated web site requests using a fake referrer URL to the site the spammer wishes to advertise.

    Here is an example of referrer spam in action:

    An example of referrer spam

    Half of those referrers are spams, here are some well know spammers that you may have seen in your logs: buttons-for-you-website.com, best-seo-offer.com, semalt.com…

    The benefit for spammers is that their website will appear in analytics tools like Piwik or Google Analytics:

    • public analytics reports (or logs) will be indexed by search engines: links to the spammer’s website will improve its ranking
    • curious webmasters are likely to visit their referrers, thus bringing traffic to the spammer’s website

    How to deal with Referrer Spam?

    Referrer spam is still new and analytics tools are all handling it differently.

    Referrer Spam in Piwik

    At Piwik we started working on mitigating Referrer spam more than a year ago. If you use Piwik and keep it up to date, you do not need to do anything.

    Referrer spammers are automatically excluded from your reports to keep your data clean and useful.

    New spammers are continuously detected and added to Piwik’s blacklist on each update. If you find a new spammer in your analytics data, you can even report it so that it is added to the Piwik’s open referrer blacklist and blocked for everyone.

    Referrer Spam in Google Analytics

    Google Analytics doesn’t offer any spam protection by default. It can however be configured manually using a custom Filter.

    To create a filter in Google Analytics go to the Admin section and click on All Filters. Create a new custom filter that excludes based on the Campaign Source field. In the Filter pattern enter the spammers domains you want to exclude (this is a regular expression):

    Configuring a referrer spam filter in Google Analytics

    If new spammers arise you will need to update this list. You can also use Piwik’s referrer blacklist to exclude all the spammers currently detected.

    Other Analytics Tools

    Many web analytics tools do not yet handle Referrer spam and when using these tools, you will often find a lot of spam data in your Referrer Websites analytics reports.

    If you use an analytics tool that does not exclude Referrer spam, we recommend to contact the vendor and ask them to implement a mechanism to remove these referrer spammers. As of today many analytics vendors still have not mitigated this issue.

    Public List of Referrer Spammers

    At Piwik with the help of our large community we have decided to tackle this growing spam issue. We have created a list of up to date referrer spammers that anyone can edit.

    The list is available in a simple text file on Github: github.com/piwik/referrer-spam-blacklist.

    The list is released under the Public Domain and anyone can use it within their applications to exclude referrer spammers.

    Many people have already contributed new spammers to the list. We invite you to use the list in your apps and websites and help us keep the list up to date!

    Let’s unite and fight the spammers together.

    Happy Analytics!

  • Announcement of a new Translation platform for Piwik translators : Transifex

    21 avril 2015, par Piwik Core Team

    To our dear Translators community,

    Thank you for helping us to translate Piwik into one of the many languages Piwik is available in.

    In this blog post, we are happy to announce a new and better way for you to contribute translations to Piwik.

    From today onwards, all the translations for the Piwik platform, plugins and for the Piwik Mobile app are managed in the public Piwik Transifex project.

    As part of a community request, we decided to switch to a more modern translation tool in order to provide everyone with an easier and better way to contribute to translations. Transifex provides us with a powerful and flexible online translation platform.

    It’s easy to contribute to Piwik translations: sign up to our Transifex project at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/piwik/ to get started.

    If you have any questions, feel free to come back to us.

    Happy translating!

  • Announcement of a new Translation platform for Piwik translators : Transifex

    21 avril 2015, par Piwik Core Team

    To our dear Translators community,

    Thank you for helping us to translate Piwik into one of the many languages Piwik is available in.

    In this blog post, we are happy to announce a new and better way for you to contribute translations to Piwik.

    From today onwards, all the translations for the Piwik platform, plugins and for the Piwik Mobile app are managed in the public Piwik Transifex project.

    As part of a community request, we decided to switch to a more modern translation tool in order to provide everyone with an easier and better way to contribute to translations. Transifex provides us with a powerful and flexible online translation platform.

    It’s easy to contribute to Piwik translations: sign up to our Transifex project at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/piwik/ to get started.

    If you have any questions, feel free to come back to us.

    Happy translating!

  • Piwik Developer Guides : helping you make the most of the Piwik platform

    16 avril 2015, par Piwik Core Team — Community, Development, Plugins

    At Piwik we are creating the leading open analytics platform that gives every user full control over their data. Today we are excited to announce the official launch of the Piwik Developer Guides at developer.piwik.org. The Developer Guides complement existing User Guides and more than 250 FAQs.

    Piwik Developer Guides

    The Developer guides will help you whenever you need to:

    Helping Developers innovate with Piwik

    Piwik is an open platform – it is open because users control their data, users control the Piwik software (it is Free/libre software) and also because users can extend the platform via the powerful plugins architecture. Piwik users can already choose from 49 plugins available on the Marketplace! (as of 2015 April 16th)

    Now that developer guides are officially released, we are hopeful that even more talented developers will be able to create Plugins and distribute them on the Marketplace.

    Share your feedback

    We are committed to providing excellent Developer Guides and to achieve this, we need to hear your feedback and suggestions. To send us a message, click on the “Give Feedback” link in the footer of pages (we are listening!).

    What’s coming next?

    • Platform Developer Changelog will continue to list all changes to the Piwik Platform and APIs.
    • We will regularly update the guides when there are changes in the platform.
    • We will improve existing guides based on users’ feedback and suggestions (tasks are tracked in this issue tracker on Github.)

    We hope you find the guides useful, and thank you for being part of the Piwik community!

  • Piwik Developer Guides : helping you make the most of the Piwik platform

    16 avril 2015, par Piwik Core Team — Community, Development, Plugins

    At Piwik we are creating the leading open analytics platform that gives every user full control over their data. Today we are excited to announce the official launch of the Piwik Developer Guides at developer.piwik.org. The Developer Guides complement existing User Guides and more than 250 FAQs.

    Piwik Developer Guides

    The Developer guides will help you whenever you need to:

    Helping Developers innovate with Piwik

    Piwik is an open platform – it is open because users control their data, users control the Piwik software (it is Free/libre software) and also because users can extend the platform via the powerful plugins architecture. Piwik users can already choose from 49 plugins available on the Marketplace! (as of 2015 April 16th)

    Now that developer guides are officially released, we are hopeful that even more talented developers will be able to create Plugins and distribute them on the Marketplace.

    Share your feedback

    We are committed to providing excellent Developer Guides and to achieve this, we need to hear your feedback and suggestions. To send us a message, click on the “Give Feedback” link in the footer of pages (we are listening!).

    What’s coming next?

    • Platform Developer Changelog will continue to list all changes to the Piwik Platform and APIs.
    • We will regularly update the guides when there are changes in the platform.
    • We will improve existing guides based on users’ feedback and suggestions (tasks are tracked in this issue tracker on Github.)

    We hope you find the guides useful, and thank you for being part of the Piwik community!

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