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Piwik at Free and Open Source Software Conference
26 août 2013, par thomas — Community
Last weekend Fabian and Thomas from the Piwik team have represented Piwik at the 8th FrOSCon in St. Augustin (Germany, near Cologne).At our booth we handed out Piwik brochures, our new awesome Stickers, and of course sweets. Many Piwik users came by and we were glad to gather some interesting feature ideas and feedback. Thank you! We also helped a few people troubleshoot issues on their servers and we introduced Piwik to many visitors stopping by the booth.
We cannot put into words what the incredible FrOSCon team and all the people who helped have achieved. Thank you for making this conference possible! We really enjoyed FrOSCon and we hope to be there next year again.
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Piwik 1.12, New Features, API Improvements, Stability — The Last Piwik 1.X Release
30 mai 2013, par Piwik team — DevelopmentWe are very excited to announce the immediate availability of Piwik v1.12!
- Download Link
- How to update Piwik?
- List of all tickets closed: Changelog
Piwik v1.12 is a major new release with four big new features, seven smaller new features, several API improvements and all together 82 tickets fixed. This is also the last major 1.X release, which means after this release we will be working on releasing Piwik 2.0. This also means that you should upgrade to PHP 5.3 or higher if you haven’t already, since Piwik 2.0 will only support PHP 5.3 and above.
Finally, this release contains two breaking changes to the API. If you use the Piwik API click here or scroll down to see if you’re affected.
Table of Contents:
New Big Feature – Beta Release Channel
For those of you who want to help test Piwik 2.0-beta releases as soon as they come up, we’ve made it easier to use our beta releases. Navigate to the Settings > General Settings page and click the The latest beta release radio button. You will then be able to upgrade to beta releases.
This isn’t truly a major feature, but we think it’s just as important because it will allow us to create more beta releases and thus catch more bugs before we make a final release. This means more releases and more stability for you.
New Big Feature – Segment Editor
The Segment Editor is a long-awaited new feature that allows you to view, save and edit your segments.
Piwik has supported segmentation (filtering visits and reports by arbitrary criteria, like browser family) for quite some time now, but it has never been possible to visually create and modify them. Nor could they be saved for later recall.
Thanks to the eighty individuals and company who funded this feature, it is now possible to:
- visually segment your visitors, instead of creating URLs.
- save segments and easily switch between them, instead of remembering URLs.
- get suggestions for segments that might be helpful to view.
- learn more in the Segmentating Analytics reports user documentation..
New Big Feature – Page Speed Reports
You can now see how long it took your webserver to generate and send pages over HTTP through the new Avg. Generation Time metric.
This metric can be viewed on both the Pages and Page Titles reports:
And the average page generation time for all the pages in your website/webapp is displayed on the visitors overview:
You can use this new information to benchmark your webapp and web server.
New Big Feature – Device Detection Reports
Piwik 1.12 also includes a new plugin that provides reports on the device types (tablet, desktop, smartphone, etc.), device brands (Apple, Google, Samsung, etc.) and device models (iPad, Nexus 7, etc.) your visitors use to access your website:
The new plugin also enhances Operating system detections (detecting sub versions of Linux, Windows, and more).
Note: This plugin is not enabled by default, but will be in Piwik 2.0. If you want to view these reports now, you can activate the plugin in the Installed Plugins admin page. Navigate to Visitors > Devices to see the new reports. You may also use the new (beta) ‘Device type’.
The new plugin was developed with the support of Clearcode.cc our technology partner
Other improvements
Majestic SEO Metrics
We’ve added two new SEO metrics to the SEO widget, both of which are calculated by MajesticSEO.com. These metrics will tell you the number of external backlinks (the number of links to your site from other sites) and the number of referrer domains (the number of domains that link to your site).
We thank the team at Majestic for their support and hard work in bringing you these metrics to your Piwik dashboards!
Real-time Visitor Count Dashboard Widget
There is now a simple new widget you can use to see the number of visitors, visits and actions that occurred in the last couple minutes. We call it the Real Time Visitor Counter!
New segment parameter: siteSearchKeyword.
There is now a new segment parameter you can use to segment your visits: siteSearchKeyword. This parameter will let you select visits that had site searches with a specific keyword.
Ignore URL letter case when importing log files.
We’ve added a new option to the log import script, –force-lowercase-path. When used, the importer will change URL paths to lowercase before tracking them. This way http://domain.com/MY/BLOG will be treated the same as http://domain.com/my/blog.
Updated ISP Names
We’ve also modified the Providers report so prettier and more up-to-date names of ISPs are displayed.
Customize the background/text/axis color of graphs.
It is now possible to change the background color, text color and/or axis color of the graph images generated by the ImageGraph plugin. To access this functionality, use the following URL query parameters when generating an image:
- backgroundColor
- textColor
- axisColor
For example:
http://demo.piwik.org/index.php?module=API&method=ImageGraph.get&idSite=7&apiModule=UserSettings&apiAction=getBrowser&token_auth=anonymous&period=day&date=2013-03-21,2013-04-19&language=en&width=779&height=150&fontSize=9&showMetricTitle=0&aliasedGraph=1&legendAppendMetric=0&backgroundColor=efefef&gridColor=dcdcdc&colors=cb2026Send your users to a custom URL after they logout.
If you manage a Piwik installation with many users and you want to send them to a custom page or website after they log out of Piwik, you can now specify the URL to redirect users after they log out.
API Changes and Improvements
BREAKING CHANGE – renamed segment parameters.
The following segment parameters have been renamed:
- continent renamed to: continentCode
- browserName renamed to: browserCode
- operatingSystem renamed to: operatingSystemCode
- lat renamed to: latitude
- long renamed to: longitude
- region renamed to: regionCode
- country renamed to: countryCode
- continent renamed to: continentCode
If you use one of the old segment parameter names, Piwik will throw an exception, so you should notice when you’re using an old name.
BREAKING CHANGE – changes to the input & output of the Live.getLastVisitsDetails method.
The following changes were made to the Live.getLastVisitsDetails API method:
- The method no longer uses the maxIdVisit query parameter. It has been replaced by the filter_offset parameter.
- Site search keywords are now displayed in a <siteSearchKeyword> element. They were formerly in <pageTitle> elements.
- Custom variables with page scope now have ‘Page’ in their element names when displayed. For example, <customVariablePageName1>, <customVariablePageName2>, etc.
Filter results of MultiSites.getAll by website name.
It is now possible to filter the results of MultiSites.getAll by website name. To do this, set the pattern query parameter to the desired regex pattern.
Get suggested values to use for a segment parameter.
The new API method API.getSuggestedValuesForSegment can now be used to get suggested values for a segment parameter. This method will return a list of the most seen values (in the last 60 days) for a certain segment parameter. So for browserCode, this would return the codes for the browsers most visitors used in the last 60 days.
Use extra tracking query parameters with the JS tracker (such as ‘lat’ & ‘long’).
We’ve added a new method to the JavaScript tracker named appendToTrackingUrl. You can use this method to add extra query parameters to a tracking request, like so:
_paq.push(['appendToTrackingUrl', 'lat=X&long=Y']);What we’re working on
As we said above, Piwik v1.12 is the last in the 1.X series of releases. This means we are now officially working on Piwik 2.0.
Piwik 2.0 will be a big release, to be sure, but it’s going to bring you more than just a couple new features and a bag of bug fixes. For Piwik 2.0 we will be revisiting the user needs and the ideals that originally prompted us to create Piwik in order to build our vision of the future of web analytics.
Piwik 2.0 won’t just be a bigger, better web app, but a new platform for observing and analyzing the things that matter to you.
Participate in Piwik
Are you a talented developer or an experienced User Interface designer? Or maybe you like to write documentation or are a marketing guru?
If you have some free time and if you want to contribute to one of the most awesome open source projects around, please get in touch with the Piwik team, or read this page to learn more…
Summary
For the full list of changes in Piwik 1.12 check out the Changelog.
Thank you to the core developers, all the beta testers and users, our official supporters, the translators & everyone who reported bugs or feature requests. Also thank you to softwares we use, and the libraries we use.
If you are a company and would like to help an important project like Piwik grow, please get in touch, it means a lot to us. You can also participate in the project —
–> if you like what you read, please tell your friends and colleagues or write on your website, blog, forums, stackoverflow, etc. <–
Peace. Enjoy!
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Presentation of Piwik’s collaborative translations platform : oTrance [Interview]
Piwik enables domain administrators, hobbyists, power users, personal website builders and everyone in between to access enormous amounts of data for website analytics. To support all those users, Piwik needs to be available in a number of different languages. From the start, we made internationalization (i18n) part of Piwik’s DNA. There are now dozens active volunteers who help make sure each language is well represented in the latest official release of Piwik. As of now, Piwik is available in 48 languages.Recently a new tool became available that makes the translation of Piwik much easier. The software we are using is an open source platform called oTrance. It has made our translation architecture more robust, and it allows us to expedite the timely delivery of high quality and up-to-date translations to the thousands of people who rely on Piwik every day.
We’ve met with oTrance creator and lead developer Daniel Schlichtholz who answered a few questions for us.
What is oTrance?
oTranCe is the short form of “Online Translation Center”. It was born because I needed a translation platform for my project MySQLDumper.
Many languages have been added by the community and manual maintenance became more and more time consuming. I wanted to change that. So I searched for an existing platform I could use and tested a lot of approaches. To put a long story short: none of the given solutions satisfied my needs.
From the view of a translator maintaining a language should be as easy as possible. In most cases they have to install a program on their local machine or the workflow was too difficult. A translator doesn’t want to struggle with technical things; he just wants to translate the phrases and wants to know the progress.
That’s the main goal we want to reach: to make the translation process as easy as possible.
What sets oTrance apart from the other ways to manage translations?
Ease of use is one advantage of oTranCe compared to other solutions. Another advantage is that project administrators can install oTranCe on their own server – so nobody is dependant of a third party provider.
We love to get feedback from other users. User feedback influences the way oTranCe is developed. We believe that this way oTranCe satisfies the requirements of the real world.
We also have extensive user documentation, in our “Working with oTranCe” wiki. We try to document use cases in an understandable way. We don’t write down marketing buzz words, but try to explain the use from the view of the user/administrator.
Now that oTranCe 1.0 is out, what will you be working on next?
The language files can be exported to version control and oTranCe can commit changes to the target repository. Currently we support export to Subversion, and we are working on a Git export adapter, which will be released soon.
Another issue we are trying to solve is the context problem. When your project uses many different phrases the translator often doesn’t know in which context the current phrase is used. Version 1.1.0 (not released yet, but you can grab the latest developer version from GitHub) introduces the oTranCe-connector. The idea behind it: a small plug in grabs the used phrases/keys on the current page, and on click this list is submitted to oTranCe, where the translator can edit the words. This way the translator knows in which context these phrases are used. I wrote a small plug in for OXID eShop. Since it is really easy to implement, my hope is that other plug ins for other applications will be added by the community.
Matthieu: Congratulations Daniel for having created such an awesome Translation Platform. At Piwik we are really thankful for oTranCe, which has resulted in much better translation process, and happier translators. Keep up the good work!
If you are a Piwik user, and if you want to participate in translating Piwik, please sign up for an account on oTrance and become part of the team making Piwik available in more languages across the world.
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Spotlight : Alwaysdata.com the company behind Piwik.org web hosting [Interview]
Piwik is the result of the work of many talented individuals and companies. Today we’d like to showcase Alwaysdata.com, the awesome web hosting company providing managed hosting for all Piwik.org websites and services.
I recently met and asked a few questions to Cyril, co-founder of Alwaysdata.com and Piwik core developer. Learn more in the interview below!
What is Alwaysdata?
We are a French web hosting company created in 2006. If you need to host a website — a Piwik installation, for example — or even your domains/emails, we provide infrastructure and maintenance services.
Who are your customers and what kind of work do you do?
We have several types of clients:
- Individuals who need hosting for their personal site and who benefit from storage space with direct SSH access.
- Web agencies who need hosting for their clients’ sites.
- The largest customers, often on dedicated servers, for hosting their site/infrastructure.
Our work falls into three categories:
- Support (via administration, telephone, Twitter, IRC, etc.)
- Development (in Python), primarily to add new features
- System administration, either for maintenance (e.g. adding servers), or for preparing new features
What sets Alwaysdata apart from the large web hosting competition?
Two things:
- Availability. We are a small team and often know our customers quite well. We are all on IRC, so you can contact us directly if you need any assistance.
- Features. We are halfway between traditional web hosting and the cloud, combining the advantages of both.
Are you using Piwik internally or with customers? If so, how are you using Piwik?
All of our customers can view statistics for their sites via our global Piwik installation, without having to configure anything.
To provide these analytics reports to our customers, we implemented import of the raw access logs in Piwik. The Log import toolkit is now a feature included in Piwik.
What is the next big thing for Alwaysdata?
We are going to upgrade our pricing: instead of fixed costs, each of our clients will now pay exactly what they consume. This allows our clients the benefit of a very high quality service for the lowest possible price.
We are also going to add native support for more technologies: Java, Node.js, ZeroMQ, etc.
Thank you for your time and all the best to Alwaysdata for the future!
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Note from Matt, Piwik founder: Cyril and the team at Alwaysdata.com have been consistently great in their system administration work for Piwik.org services, providing a fast and reliable web hosting experience with top notch support and security practises. They also handled the migration of all services from our old servers with total piece of mind.
Alwaysdata contributed to Piwik the popular Log Analytics toolkit. They are great software developers and system administrators with a passion for their work. Since 2006, they have been maintaining optimized hosting services for the entire web infrastructure (websites, domains, emails, databases, etc.), from the simplest to the most exotic. We do recommend their managed hosting services.
Learn more
- Visit their website at Alwaysdata.com
- Learn more about their Managed hosting on dedicated servers
- Learn more about other companies and individuals who make a difference in Piwik.
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Install Piwik with 1-click using Installatron
28 mars 2013, par Piwik team — CommunityWe are proud to announce that Piwik Analytics is now available as one click install from Installatron!
Installatron is a one-click web application installer that enables Piwik and other top web applications to be instantly installed and effortlessly managed. Get Piwik up and running on your website in seconds and discover just how easy Installatron makes it to manage web applications. Piwik installations managed by Installatron can updated (manually or automated), cloned, backed up and restored, edited to change installation parameters, and more.
Many web hosting providers provide Installatron through their web hosting control panel. If Installatron is not available from your provider, you can use Installatron directly from Installatron.com.
To install Piwik through your web hosting provider’s control panel (if available):
- Login to your web host’s control panel,
- navigate to “Installatron”, click “Piwik”, and choose the “Install this application” option.
- Change any of the install prompts to customize the install. For
example, you can choose a different default language for Piwik. - Click the “Install” button to begin the installation process. You
will be redirect to a progress page where you can watch as Piwik is
installed within a few seconds to your website.
You can also install Piwik directly from Installatron.com, by navigating to Piwik @Installatron and choose the “Install this application” option. After filling in your FTP and Mysql information, you will be redirect to a progress page where you can watch as Piwik is installed within a few seconds to your website. After the installation, you may wish to change your FTP, Mysql password.
If you experience any problems or want to share your experience using Piwik and Installatron together, email the Installatron team at: feedback (at) installatron.com
