Previously, my (this) domain used Google Analytics to keep track of visitor (all of your) statistics and data, but I recently transitioned to a free & open source solution: Piwik –in which I control all the data.
Piwik: The Leading Self-Hosted, Decentralized, Open Source Web Analytics Platform
While not as pretty as the Google solution, it certainly makes up for it with an abundance of features –a lot of which I am still familiarizing myself with– a list of which you can find on their site.
Hailing itself as the “leading self-hosted, decentralized, open source web analytics platform”, Piwik was conceived as an open web analytics platform (and an alternative to Google Analytics), priding itself on being open source and privacy centric.
Installation
Once I downloaded, extracted and scp-ied to my server the set-up was relatively simple.
wget http://builds.piwik.org/latest.zip unzip latest.zip && cd latest/piwik scp -r <directory/of/piwik> <username> @re.mote.ip.address:"</remote/directory/for/piwik/"
Deployment was essentially the same as spinning up a WordPress instance (configuring an SQL database, and following the provided setup wizard) which they must be aware of as they have a “5 minute installation” also.
Juju Charm?
I’m not that great a web wizard, but if any of you Juju folks read this, Piwik might be a viable charm, no? Given WordPress is one I assume it is possible to do.
Anyway, you can find more info on their site: piwik.org
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