Anyone using Piwik?

[HWS]

Has anyone of you experiences with Piwik?
http://piwik.org

This is a free access and visitor analyse software. We would like to replace Google Analytics.

 

[Teapot]

I use it What would you like to know about it?

 

[Deebs]

Likewise, been running for a few years now.

 

[HWS]

Do you have had any troubles? How does it scale? We have a large web site with several million page views per day. Are you satisfied with the reports? Do you run it at a dedicated server or the same server your web site is on? Are there any serious bugs, is the software supported and updated regularly?

Did someone of you switch from Google to Piwik and was satisfied with the change?

 

[Jeffin]

I had it a long time back but I still prefer Google Analytics. Last year, their site got hacked and some malicious code was inserted into the installation files. Some sites were affected. I don't see anything good about Piwik other than the fact that it's open source. For me, I never needed an open source alternative to Google analytics so I removed it at a later time.

 

[melbo]

@Teapot @Deebs
@Walter
Has anyone set this up to grab the XF username with a custom variable?
Would be nice to track visits by member as well as by IP

Would also like to track resource downloads.

 

[Liam W]

@Teapot @Deebs
@Walter
Has anyone set this up to grab the XF username with a custom variable?
Would be nice to track visits by member as well as by IP

Would also like to track resource downloads.

I don't use a custom variable, I use the builtin Piwik userid setting

Example entry:

All you have to do is add

<xen:if is="{$visitor.user_id}">
      _paq.push(['setUserId', '{$visitor.username}']);
  </xen:if>

underneath the first line of the piwik code:

<!-- Piwik -->
<script type="text/javascript">
  var _paq = _paq || [];
  <xen:if is="{$visitor.user_id}">
      _paq.push(['setUserId', '{$visitor.username}']);
  </xen:if>
  _paq.push(['trackPageView']);
  _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']);
  (function() {
    var u="//<piwik domain>/";
    _paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', u+'piwik.php']);
    _paq.push(['setSiteId', <site id>]);
    var d=document, g=d.createElement('script'), s=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];
    g.type='text/javascript'; g.async=true; g.defer=true; g.src=u+'piwik.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s);
  })();
</script>
<noscript><p><img src="//<piwik domain>/piwik.php?idsite=1" style="border:0;" alt="" /></p></noscript>
<!-- End Piwik Code -->

 

[melbo]

Very nice. Thanks @Liam W !

Do you have some quick magic code for getting RM downloads to track under Downloads?

 

[drsprite]

@Liam W I hate to dig up an old post, but since it's not closed I figure why not

I have Piwik and I want to be able to track userid, but have no idea where to insert the custom code. Any tips on where I'd paste the whole codeblock in? Thanks!

EDIT: Ah, in ACP > Appearance > Templates > PAGE_CONTAINER.

I'm very used to WordPress, so I was looking for a flat file.

 

[Liam W]

@Liam W I hate to dig up an old post, but since it's not closed I figure why not

I have Piwik and I want to be able to track userid, but have no idea where to insert the custom code. Any tips on where I'd paste the whole codeblock in? Thanks!

EDIT: Ah, in ACP > Appearance > Templates > PAGE_CONTAINER.

I'm very used to WordPress, so I was looking for a flat file.

You shouldn't use the page container template. You should use the page_container_js_head template, which is included by the PAGE_CONTAINER template.

Liam

 

[drsprite]

Even better, thank you for the update

 

[ekool]

I'm updating this thread as this code doesn't work with XF2... here is code that will work with XF2:

  <xf:if is="$xf.visitor.user_id">
  _paq.push(['setUserId', '{$xf.visitor.username}']);
  </xf:if>