OWA, An Open Source Web Analytics Framework For Many Popular Applications
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The Open Web Analytics (OWA) framework provides a generic set of PHP and HTTP APIs that application developers can use to integrate web analytics into any application. The OWA framework also comes with built-in support for popular web applications such as WordPress and MediaWiki. As a generic web analytics framework, OWA can be extended to track and analyze any web application.
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Tracking/ReportingÂ
- Track Page views, visits, and unique visitors over time
- Track unique, new, repeat visitors over time
- Multiple Web Site Support – track any number of web sites and view statistics in aggregate or by site
- Click-streams – view the actual click-stream of each visitor
- Click Tracking – Track where exactly on a web page users are clicking and view clicks by browser type
- Click Heat Maps – view a heat map of where users are clicking on your web pages
- Google Maps – map your visitors on Google Maps
- Google Earth (KML) – view your visitors in Google Earth via a KML file export
- RSS/ATOM subscription tracking – track unique feed readers, reader types, and feed requests
- Visitor Aging – understand the age of your repeat visitors.
- Canned and Custom Time Periods – generate reports using pre-defined reporting periods or custom date ranges
- Refering Page Analysis – View the title, anchor text, and surrounding text of inbound links from refering web pages
- View visits by user agent
- Track entry and exit pages
- Track pages by custom page types
WordPress Specific Features
- Track visitors by WordPress user name or e-mail address they use in comments.
- Track all WordPress Page Types (Posts, Pages, Authors, Archives, Categories, etc.)
- Track the number of comments made by visit
- Reporting accessable via Admin Dashboard
- Track subscribers to RSS/Atom feeds
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Thanks for a good looking alternative to Google Analytics.
It’s reassuring to be in control of my OWN data, and not a hosted solution.
Great. I keep learning more about analytics. I like my current provider, but its always good to compare.
Quite a nice analytics tool. Thank you for sharing. It’s nice to have an alternative to Google Analytics. The challenge with Google Analytics is they they own your data. It’s much more powerful to own your own data.
If you’re interested in open source web analytics, Piwik is also worth a try: http://tips4php.net/2010/08/tired-of-google-analytics-why-not-try-piwik/








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