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• Six Best Amplitude Alternatives

  10 décembre 2024, par Daniel Crough

  Product analytics is big business. Gone are the days when we could only guess what customers were doing with our products or services. Now, we can track, visualise, and analyse how they interact with them and, with that, constantly improve and optimise. 

  The problem is that many product analytics tools are expensive and complicated — especially for smaller businesses. They’re also packed with functionality more attuned to the needs of massive companies. 

  Amplitude is such a tool. It’s brilliant and it has all the bells and whistles that you’ll probably never need. Fortunately, there are alternatives. In this guide, we’ll explore the best of those alternatives and, along the way, provide the insight you’ll need to select the best analytics tool for your organisation. 

  Amplitude : a brief overview

  To set the stage, it makes sense to understand exactly what Amplitude offers. It’s a real-time data analytics tool for tracking user actions and gaining insight into engagement, retention, and revenue drivers. It helps you analyse that data and find answers to questions about what happened, why it happened, and what to do next.

  However, as good as Amplitude is, it has some significant disadvantages. While it does offer data export functionality, that seems deliberately restricted. It allows data exports for specific events, but it’s not possible to export complete data sets to manipulate or format in another tool. Even pulling it into a CSV file has a 10,000-row limit. There is an API, but not many third-party integration options.

  Getting data in can also be a problem. Amplitude requires manual tags on events that must be tracked for analysis, which can leave holes in the data if every possible subsequent action isn’t tagged. That’s a time-consuming exercise, and it’s made worse because those tags will have to be updated every time the website or app is updated. 

  As good as it is, it can also be overwhelming because it’s stacked with features that can create confusion for novice or inexperienced analysts. It’s also expensive. There is a freemium plan that limits functionality and events. Still, when an organisation wants to upgrade for additional functionality or to analyse more events, the step up to the paid plan is massive.

  Lastly, Amplitude has made some strides towards being a web analytics option, but it lacks some basic functionality that may frustrate people who are trying to see the full picture from web to app.

  Snapshot of Amplitude alternatives

  So, in place of Amplitude, what product analytics tools are available that won’t break the bank and still provide the functionality needed to improve your product ? The good news is that there are literally hundreds of alternatives, and we’ve picked out six of the best.

  1. Matomo – Best privacy-focused web and mobile analytics
  2. Mixpanel – Best for product analytics
  3. Google Analytics – Best free option
  4. Adobe Analytics – Best for predictive analytics
  5. Umami – Best lightweight tool for product analytics
  6. Heap – Best for automatic user data capture

  A more detailed analysis of the Amplitude alternatives

  Now, let’s dive deeper into each of the six Amplitude alternatives. We’ll cover standout features, integrations, pricing, use cases and community critiques. By the end, you’ll know which analytics tool can help optimise website and app performance to grow your business.

  1. Matomo – Best privacy-friendly web and app analytics

  Privacy is a big concern these days, especially for organisations with a presence in the European Union (EU). Unlike other analytics tools, Matomo ensures you comply with privacy laws and regulations, like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

  Matomo helps businesses get the insights they need without compromising user privacy. It’s also one of the few self-hosted tools, ensuring data never has to leave your site.

  Matomo is open-source, which is also rare in this class of tools. That means it’s available for anyone to adapt and customise as they wish. Everything you need to build custom APIs is there.

  

  Its most useful capabilities include visitor logs and session recordings to trace the entire customer journey, spot drop-off points, and fine-tune sales funnels. The platform also comes with heatmaps and A/B testing tools. Heatmaps provide a useful visual representation of your data, while A/B testing allows for more informed, data-driven decisions.

  Despite its range of features, many reviewers laud Matomo’s user interface for its simplicity and user-friendliness. 

  Why Matomo : Matomo is an excellent alternative because it fills in the gaps where Amplitude comes up short, like with cookieless tracking. Also, while Amplitude focuses mainly on behavioural analytics, Matomo offers both behavioural and traditional analytics, which allows more profound insight into your data. Furthermore, Matomo fully complies with the strictest privacy regulations worldwide, including GDPR, LGPD, and HIPAA.

  Standout features include multi-touch attribution, visits log, content engagement, ecommerce, customer segments, event tracking, goal tracking, custom dimensions, custom reports, automated email reports, tag manager, sessions recordings, roll-up reporting that can pull data from multiple websites or mobile apps, Google Analytics importer, Matomo tag manager, comprehensive visitor tracking, heatmaps, and more.

  Integrations with 100+ technologies, including Cloudflare, WordPress, Magento, Google Ads, Drupal, WooCommerce, Vue, SharePoint and Wix.

  Pricing is free for Matomo On-Premise and $23 per month for Matomo Cloud, which comes with a 21-day free trial (no credit card required).

  Strengths

  • Privacy focused
  • Cookieless consent banners
  • 100% accurate, unsampled data
  • Open-source code 
  • Complete data ownership (no sharing with third parties)
  • Self-hosting and cloud-based options
  • Built-in GDPR Manager
  • Custom alerts, white labelling, dashboards and reports

  Community critiques 

  • Premium features are expensive and proprietary
  • Learning curve for non-technical users

  2. Mixpanel – Best for product analytics

  Mixpanel is a dedicated product analytics tool. It tracks and analyses customer interactions with a product across different platforms and helps optimise digital products to improve the user experience. It works with real-time data and can provide answers from customer and revenue data in seconds.

  It also presents data visualisations to show how customers interact with products.

  

  Mixpanel allows you to play around filters and views to reveal and chart some useful customer trends. (Image source)

  Why Mixpanel : One of the strengths of this platform is the ability to test hypotheses. Need to test an ambitious idea ? Mixpanel data can do it with real user analytics. That allows you to make data-driven decisions to find the best path forward.

  Standout features include automatic funnel segment analysis, behavioural segmentation, cohort segmentation, collaboration support, customisable dashboards, data pipelines, filtered data views, SQL queries, warehouse connectors and a wide range of pre-built integrations.

  Integrations available include Appcues, AppsFlyer, AWS, Databox, Figma, Google Cloud, Hotjar, HubSpot, Intercom, Integromat, MailChimp, Microsoft Azure, Segment, Slack, Statsig, VWO, Userpilot, WebEngage, Zapier, ZOH) and dozens of others.

  Pricing starts with a freemium plan valid for up to 20 million events per month. The growth plan is affordable at $25 per month and adds features like no-code data transformations and data pipeline add-ons. The enterprise version runs at a monthly cost of $833 and provides the full suite of features and services and premium support.

  There’s a caveat. Those prices only allow up to 1,000 Monthly Tracked Users (MTUs), calculated based on the number of visitors that perform a qualifying event each month. Beyond that, MTU plans start at $20,000 per year.

  Strengths

  • User behaviour and interaction tracking
  • Unlimited cohort segmentation capabilities
  • Drop-off analysis showing where users get stuck
  • A/B testing capabilities

  Community critiques 

  • Expensive enterprise features
  • Extensive setup and configuration requirements

  3. Google Analytics 4 – Best free web analytics tool

  The first thing to know about Google Analytics 4 is that it’s a web analytics tool. In other words, it tracks sessions, not user behaviours in app environments. It can provide details on how people found your website and how they go there, but it doesn’t offer much detail on how people use your product. 

  There is also an enterprise version, Google Analytics 360, which is not free. We’ve broken down the differences between the two versions elsewhere.

  

  GA4’s audience overview shows visitors, sessions, session lengths, bounce rates, and user engagement data. (Image source)

   

  Why Google Analytics : It’s great for gauging the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, tracking goal completions (purchases, cart additions, etc.) and spotting trends and patterns in user engagement.

  Standout features include built-in automation, customisable conversion goals, data drill-down functionality, detailed web acquisition metrics, media spend ROI calculations and out-of-the-box web analytics reporting.

  Integrations include all major CRM platforms, CallRail, DoubleClick DCM, Facebook, Hootsuite, Marketo, Shopify, VWO, WordPress, Zapier and Zendesk, among many others.

  Pricing is free for the basic version (Google Analytics 4) and scales based on features and data volume. The advanced features (in Google Analytics 360) are pitched at enterprises, and pricing is custom.

  Strengths

  • Free to start
  • Multiple website management
  • Traffic source details
  • Up-to-date traffic data

  Community critiques 

  • Steep learning curve 
  • Data sampling

  4. Adobe Analytics – Best for predictive analytics

  A fully configured Adobe Analytics implementation is the Swiss army knife of analytics tools. It begins with web analytics, adds product analytics, and then wraps it up nicely with predictive analytics.

  Unlike all the Amplitude alternatives here, there’s no free version. Adobe Analytics has a complicated pricing matrix with options like website analytics, marketing analytics, attribution, and predictive analytics. It also has a wide range of customisation options that will appeal to large businesses. But for smaller organisations, it may all be a bit too much.

  Mixpanel allows you to play around filters and views to reveal and chart some useful customer trends. (Image source)

  

  Adobe Analytics’ cross-channel attribution ties actions from different channels into a single customer journey. (Image source)

   

  Why Adobe Analytics : For current Adobe customers, this is a logical next step. Either way, Adobe Analytics can combine, evaluate, and analyse data from any part of the customer journey. It analyses that data with predictive intelligence to provide insights to enhance customer experiences.

   

  Standout features include AI-powered prediction analysis, attribution analysis, multi-channel data collection, segmentation and detailed customer journey analytics, product analytics and web analytics.

   

  Integrations are available through the Adobe Experience Cloud Exchange. Adobe Analytics also supports data exchange with brands such as BrightEdge, Branch.io, Google Ads, Hootsuite, Invoca, Salesforce and over 200 other integrations.

   

  Pricing starts at $500 monthly, but prospective customers are encouraged to contact the company for a needs-based quotation.

   

  Strengths

  • Drag-and-drop interface
  • Flexible segmentation 
  • Easy-to-create conversion funnels
  • Threshold-based alerts and notifications

  Community critiques 

  • No free version
  • Lack of technical support
  • Steep learning curve

  5. Umami – Best lightweight tool for web analytics

  The second of our open-source analytics solutions is Umami, a favourite in the software development community. Like Matomo, it’s a powerful and privacy-focused alternative that offers complete data control and respects user privacy. It’s also available as a cloud-based freemium plan or as a self-hosted solution.

   

  

  Umami’s dashboard reveals the busiest times of day and which pages are visited when.(Image source)

   

  Why Umami : Unami has a clear and simple user interface (UI) that lets you measure important metrics such as page visits, referrers, and user agents. It also features event tracking, although some reviewers complain that it’s quite limited.

  Standout features can be summed up in five words : privacy, simplicity, lightweight, real-time, and open-source. Unami’s UI is clean, intuitive and modern, and it doesn’t slow down your website. 

  Integrations include plugins for VuePress, Gatsby, Craft CMS, Docusaurus, WordPress and Publii, and a module for Nuxt. Unami’s API communicates with Javascript, PHP Laravel and Python.

  Pricing is free for up to 100k monthly events and three websites, but with limited support and data retention restrictions. The Pro plan costs $20 a month and gives you unlimited websites and team members, a million events (plus $0.00002 for each event over that), five years of data and email support. Their Enterprise plan is priced custom.

  Strengths

  • Freemium plan
  • Open-source
  • Lightweight 

  Community critiques 

  • Limited support options
  • Data retention restrictions
  • No funnel functionality

  6. Heap – Best for automatic data capture

  Product analytics with a twist is a good description of Heap. It features event auto-capture to track user interactions across all touchpoints in the user journey. This lets you fully understand how and why customers engage with your product and website. 

  Using a single Javascript snippet, Heap automatically collects data on everything users do, including how they got to your website. It also helps identify how different cohorts engage with your product, providing the critical insights teams need to boost conversion rates.

  

  Heap’s journeys feature combines funnel and path analysis. (Image source)

   

  Why Heap : The auto-capture functionality solves a major shortcoming of many product analytics tools — manual tracking. Instead of having to set up manual tags on events, Heap automatically captures all data on user activity from the start. 

  Standout features include event auto-capture, session replay, heatmaps, segments (or cohorts) and journeys, the last of which combines the functions of funnel and path analysis tools into a single feature.

  Integrations include AWS, Google, Microsoft Azure, major CRM platforms, Snowflake and many other data manipulation platforms.

  Pricing is quote-based across all payment tiers. There is also a free plan and a 14-day free trial.

  Strengths

  • Session replay
  • Heatmaps 
  • User segmentation
  • Simple setup 
  • Event auto-capture 

  Community critiques 

  • No A/B testing functionality
  • No GDPR compliance support

  Choosing the best solution for your team

  When selecting a tool, it’s crucial to understand how product analytics and web analytics solutions differ. 

  Product analytics tools track users or accounts and record the features they use, the funnels they move through, and the cohorts they’re part of. Web analytics tools focus more on sessions than users because they’re interested in data that can help improve website usage. 

  Some tools combine product and web analytics to do both of these jobs.

  Area of focus

  Product analytics tools track user behaviour within SaaS- or app-based products. They’re helpful for analysing features, user journeys, engagement metrics, product development and iteration. 

  Web analytics tools analyse web traffic, user demographics, and traffic sources. They’re most often used for marketing and SEO insights.

  Level of detail

  Product analytics tools provide in-depth tracking and analysis of user interactions, feature usage, and cohort analysis.

  Web analytics tools provide broader data on page views, bounce rates, and conversion tracking to analyse overall site performance.

  Whatever tools you try, your first step should be to search for reviews online to see what people who’ve used them think about them. There are some great review sites you can try. See what people are saying on Capterra, G2, Gartner Peer Insights, or TrustRadius. 

  Use Matomo to power your web and app analytics

  Web and product analytics is a competitive field, and there are many other tools worth considering. This list is a small cross-section of what’s available.

  That said, if you have concerns about privacy and costs, consider choosing Matomo. Start your 21-day free trial today.

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• Four Trends Shaping the Future of Analytics in Banking

  27 novembre 2024, par Daniel Crough — Banking and Financial Services

  While retail banking revenues have been growing in recent years, trends like rising financial crimes and capital required for generative AI and ML tech pose significant risks and increase operating costs across the financial industry, according to McKinsey’s State of Retail Banking report.

   

  Today’s financial institutions are focused on harnessing AI and advanced analytics to make their data work for them. To be up to the task, analytics solutions must allow banks to give consumers the convenient, personalised experiences they want while respecting their privacy.

   

  In this article, we’ll explore some of the big trends shaping the future of analytics in banking and finance. We’ll also look at how banks use data and technology to cut costs and personalise customer experiences.
  
  So, let’s get into it.

  

  This doesn’t just represent a security risk, it also impacts the usability for both customers and employees. Does any of the following sound familiar ?

  • Only specific senior employees know how to navigate the software to generate custom reports or use its more advanced features.
  • Customer complaints about your site’s usability or online banking experience are routine.
  • Onboarding employees takes much longer than necessary because of convoluted systems.
  • Teams and departments experience ‘data siloing,’ meaning that not everyone can access the data they need.

  These are warning signs that IT systems are ready for a review. Anyone thinking, “If it’s not broken, why fix it ?” should consider that legacy systems can also present data security risks. As more countries introduce regulations to protect customer privacy, staying ahead of the curve is increasingly important to avoid penalties and litigation.

  And regulations aren’t the only trends impacting the future of financial institutions’ IT and analytics.

  4 trends shaping the future of analytics in banking

  New regulations and new technology have changed the landscape of analytics in banking.

  New privacy regulations impact banks globally

  The first major international example was the advent of GDPR, which went into effect in the EU in 2018. But a lot has happened since. New privacy regulations and restrictions around AI continue to roll out.

  • The European Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AI Act), which was held up as the world’s first comprehensive legislation on AI, took effect on 31 July 2024.
  • In Europe’s federated data initiative, Gaia-X’s planned cloud infrastructure will provide for more secure, transparent, and trustworthy data storage and processing.
  • The revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2) makes payments more secure and strengthens protections for European businesses and consumers, aiming to create a more integrated and efficient payments market.

  But even businesses that don’t have customers in Europe aren’t safe. Consumer privacy is a hot-button issue globally.

  For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which took effect in January, impacts the financial services industry more than any other. Case in point, 34% of CCPA-related cases filed in 2022 were related to the financial sector.

  California’s privacy regulations were the first in the US, but other states are following closely behind. On 1 July 2024, new privacy laws went into effect in Florida, Oregon, and Texas, giving people more control over their data.

  

  One typical issue for companies in the banking industry is that their privacy measures regarding user data collected from their website are much less lax than those in their online banking system.

  It’s better to proactively invest in a privacy-centric analytics platform before you get tangled up in a lawsuit and have to pay a fine (and are forced to change your system anyway). 

  And regulatory compliance isn’t the only bonus of an ethical analytics solution. The right alternative can unlock key customer insights that can help you improve the user experience.

  The demand for personalised banking services

  At the same time, consumers are expecting a more and more streamlined personal experience from financial institutions. 86% of bank employees say personalisation is a clear priority for the company. But 63% described resources as limited or only available after demonstrating clear business cases.

  McKinsey’s The data and analytics edge in corporate and commercial banking points out how advanced analytics are empowering frontline bank employees to give customers more personalised experiences at every stage :

  • Pre-meeting/meeting prep : Using advanced analytics to assess customer potential, recommend products, and identify prospects who are most likely to convert
  • Meetings/negotiation : Applying advanced models to support price negotiations, what-if scenarios and price multiple products simultaneously
  • Post-meeting/tracking : Using advanced models to identify behaviours that lead to high performance and improve forecast accuracy and sales execution

  Today’s banks must deliver the personalisation that drives customer satisfaction and engagement to outperform their competitors.

  The rise of AI and its role in banking

  With AI and machine learning technologies becoming more powerful and accessible, financial institutions around the world are already reaping the rewards.

  McKinsey estimates that AI in banking could add $200 to 340 billion annually across the global banking sector through productivity gains.

  • Credit card fraud prevention : Algorithms analyse usage to flag and block fraudulent transactions.
  • More accurate forecasting : AI-based tools can analyse a broader spectrum of data points and forecast more accurately.
  • Better risk assessment and modelling : More advanced analytics and predictive models help avoid extending credit to high-risk customers.
  • Predictive analytics : Help spot clients most likely to churn 
  • Gen-AI assistants : Instantly analyse customer profiles and apply predictive models to suggest the next best actions.

  Considering these market trends, let’s discuss how you can move your bank into the future.

  Using analytics to minimise risk and establish a competitive edge 

  With the right approach, you can leverage analytics and AI to help future-proof your bank against changing customer expectations, increased fraud, and new regulations.

  Use machine learning to prevent fraud

  Every year, more consumers are victims of credit and debit card fraud. Debit card skimming cases nearly doubled in the US in 2023. The last thing you want as a bank is to put your customer in a situation where a criminal has spent their money.

  This not only leads to a horrible customer experience but also creates a lot of internal work and additional costs.Thankfully, machine learning can help identify suspicious activity and stop transactions before they go through. For example, Mastercard’s fraud prevention model has improved fraud detection rates by 20–300%.

  

  Implementing a solution like this (or partnering with credit card companies who use it) may be a way to reduce risk and improve customer trust.

  Foresee and avoid future issues with AI-powered risk management

  Regardless of what type of financial products organisations offer, AI can be an enormous tool. Here are just a few ways in which it can mitigate financial risk in the future :

  • Predictive analytics can evaluate risk exposure and allow for more informed decisions about whether to approve commercial loan applications.
  • With better credit risk modelling, banks can avoid extending personal loans to customers most likely to default.
  • Investment banks (or individual traders or financial analysts) can use AI- and ML-based systems to monitor market and trading activity more effectively.

  Those are just a few examples that barely scratch the surface. Many other AI-based applications and analytics use cases exist across all industries and market segments.

  Protect customer privacy while still getting detailed analytics

  New regulations and increasing consumer privacy concerns don’t mean banks and financial institutions should forego website analytics altogether. Its insights into performance and customer behaviour are simply too valuable. And without customer interaction data, you’ll only know something’s wrong if someone complains.

  Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be one or the other. The right financial analytics solution can give you the data and insights needed without compromising privacy while complying with regulations like GDPR and CCPA.

  That way, you can track usage patterns and improve site performance and content quality based on accurate data — without compromising privacy. Reliable, precise analytics are crucial for any bank that’s serious about user experience.

  Use A/B testing and other tools to improve digital customer experiences

  Personalised digital experiences can be key differentiators in banking and finance when done well. But there’s stiff competition. In 2023, 40% of bank customers rated their bank’s online and mobile experience as excellent. 

  Improving digital experiences for users while respecting their privacy means going above and beyond a basic web analytics tool like Google Analytics. Invest in a platform with features like A/B tests and user session analysis for deeper insights into user behaviour.

  

  Behavioural analytics are crucial to understanding customer interactions. By identifying points of friction and drop-off points, you can make digital experiences smoother and more engaging.

  Matomo offers all this and is a great GDPR-compliant alternative to Google Analytics for banks and financial institutions. 

  Of course, this can be challenging. This is why taking an ethical and privacy-centric approach to analytics can be a key competitive edge for banks. Prioritising data security and privacy will attract other like-minded, ethically conscious consumers and boost customer loyalty.

  Get privacy-friendly web analytics suitable for banking & finance with Matomo

  Improving digital experiences for today’s customers requires a solid web analytics platform that prioritises data privacy and accurate analytics. And choosing the wrong one could even mean ending up in legal trouble or scrambling to reconstruct your entire analytics setup.

  Matomo provides privacy-friendly analytics with 100% data accuracy (no sampling), advanced privacy controls and the ability to run A/B tests and user session analysis within the same platform (limiting risk and minimising costs). 

  It’s easy to get started with Matomo. Users can access clear, easy-to-understand metrics and plenty of pre-made reports that deliver valuable insights from day one. Form usage reports can help banks and fintechs identify potential issues with broken links or technical glitches and reveal clues on improving UX in the short term.

  Over one million websites, including some of the world’s top banks and financial institutions, use Matomo for their analytics.

  Start your 21-day free trial to see why, or book a demo with one of our analytics experts.

• Generating test data – Introducing the Piwik Platform

  9 octobre 2014, par Thomas Steur — Development

  This is the next post of our blog series where we introduce the capabilities of the Piwik platform (our previous post was How to create a command). This time you’ll learn how to generate test data.

  Developers are developing on their local Piwik instance which usually does not contain useful data compared to a real Piwik installation in production (only a few test visits and a few tests users and websites). The ‘VisitorGenerator’ plugin lets you generate any number of visits, websites, users, goals and more. The generator makes sure there will be data for each report so you can easily test anything.

  Getting started

  In this series of posts, we assume that you have already installed Piwik. If not, visit the Piwik Developer Zone where you’ll find the Installation guide for developers.

  Installing the VisitorGenerator plugin

  The easiest way to install the plugin is by using the Marketplace in Piwik itself. It is accessible via Settings => Marketplace => Get new functionality. There you’ll find the plugin “VisitorGenerator” which you can install and activate in one click.

  If your Piwik instance is not connected to the internet you can download the plugin from the VisitorGenerator page on the Marketplace. Afterwards you can install the plugin by going to Settings => Marketplace => Uploading a plugin and uploading the previously downloaded ZIP file.

  If you have already installed the plugin make sure it is activated by going to Settings => Plugins.

  Generating websites

  After you have installed the plugin you can add as many websites as you need. This is useful for instance when you want to test something that affects many websites such as the ‘All Websites’ dashboard or the Websites manager. To generate any number of websites use the following command :

  ./console visitorgenerator:generate-website --limit=10

  This will generate 10 websites. If you need more websites simply specify a higher limit. In case you are wondering the names and URLs of the websites are randomly generated by the Faker PHP library.

  Generating goals

  In case you want to test anything related to Goals you should execute the following command :

  ./console visitorgenerator:generate-goals --idsite=1

  This will generate a few goals for the specified site. The generated goals are defined in a way to make sure there will be conversions when generating the visits in the next step.

  Generating visits

  To generate visits there are two possibilities. Either via the Piwik UI by going to Settings => Visitor Generator or by using the command line. The UI is a bit limited in generating visits so we recommend to use the command line. There you can generate visits as follows :

  ./console visitorgenerator:generate-visits --idsite=1

  This will generate many different visits for the current day. Don’t worry if it takes a while, it will insert quite a few visits by default.

  In case you want to generate visits for multiple days in the past as well you can specify the --days option.

  ./console visitorgenerator:generate-visits --idsite=1 --days=5

  Providing your own logs

  Half of the generated visits are randomly generated and half of the visits are based on real logs to make sure there is data for each report. If you want to generate visits based on your own logs for a more realistic testing just place your log files in the plugins/VisitorGenerator/data folder and make sure the file name ends with .log. You can find a few examples in the VisitorGenerator data folder.

  To generate visits based only on real log files then use the --no-fake option.

  ./console visitorgenerator:generate-visits --idsite=1 --no-fake

  All generated visits will come from the logs and no random visits nor random fake data will be used.

  Advanced features

  We are regularly adding new commands, tools and runtime checks to make your life as a developer easier. For instance you can also generate users and annotations. In the future we want to extend the plugin to create visits in the background to make sure there will be constantly new actions in the real time report.

  Are you missing any kind of generator or any other feature to make your life as a developer easier ? Let us know by email, we are listening !

  Would you like to know more about the Piwik platform ? Go to our Piwik Developer Zone where you’ll find guides and references on how to develop plugin and themes.