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Re: GD Image Rotation Low Quality / Poor Performance error on debian

vadim s. sabinich — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:09:00 -0000

thx for your solution!

Re: Better than piwik

Mike — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:00:03 -0000

How do you track conversions (monetary and non-monetary) in OWA? And does it work with https secured pages?

Thanks!

Re: Better than piwik

robocoder — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:47:44 -0000

I doubt Piwik "crashed" OsDate.

OsDate uses Smarty as its templating system. To insert the Piwik tracking code (or even the Google Analytics tracking code) into OsDate templates, you have to wrap the JavaScript inside Smarty's {literal} ... {/literal} tags.

That said, I like both Piwik and OWA -- either would be a good choice.

As for CrawlTrack ... why don't you create an OWA plugin for that?

Re: Better than piwik

Peter Adams — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:48:50 -0000

I'm sorry to hear you had issues with your OWA install. Can you share any errors that you encountered with me so we can get them fixed and incorporated into the final release? I can be reached at peter[at]openwebanalytics.com and would greatly appreciate it. thanks again.

Re: Better than piwik

andrewsuth — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:49:01 -0000

I just spent the last few hours trying both Open Web Analytics 1.2.1rc1 then Piwik 0.5.4.

First impressions:
Open Web Analytics was very fiddly to install. I had to go into some of the PHP code and correct the mistakes as it was unusable out-of-the-box (simple PHP mistakes!). As far as the features go, they sound really good on paper but you'll soon be stopped by the clunky and not so pretty UI of OWA which seemed to frequently spit out errors. Documentation? Forget about it, it's like trying to find a needle in a hay stack.
On a positive not, I did really like the video play back option but it still needs a lot of work.

Piwik on the other hand was quick and easy to install, I had it up and running in 5 mins. The GUI is smooth and works like a charm - not a single error or additional download needed for it. As far as doc go, they were easy to find and had a lot of useful information and help - not that you'll need it as it's all very straight forward to get up and running.

I'll be keeping with Piwik, thank you very much.

Re: Better than piwik

Peter Adams — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:03:49 -0000

OWA 1.2.1rc1 is out if you want to give it a whirl. Includes a number of fixes and a number of new features including a revamped heatmap module. If anyone finds a bug in OWA please just report it on http://trac.openwebanalytics.c... and we'll get it fixed and help you troubleshoot the install.

Re: OsDate and Piwik problem/ crawltrack

shane67 — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:13:35 -0000

I find the same issue as well with piwik / osdate. I wanted to use piwik because it looks very cool. i will try the suggestions above, thanks for the tips!

Re: Better than piwik

Agriculture Guide — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:30:51 -0000

i want to learn which one is really better ?

Re: Better than piwik

Q-efx — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:54:54 -0000

Strange, I had similar problems with piwik. ( Thats why I searched for something better :) )

But, I as I wrote: You should test before use.

And at this moment I use owa on a vserver with php5, no problems so far... Maybe it uses a module which is missing?

Re: Better than piwik

Daniel — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:08:56 -0000

Thanks for your suggestion to look at OWA, but I'm not impressed.

I'm running Piwik for some time and it's a lot more polished, usable and mature.

Open Web Analytics was very difficult to install (error installing the database scheme, where I had to dig deep into the code to fix this - appears to work with PHP4 only).
After having installed it (which included more fixes), and setting up a workaround to make the AJAX requests work between subdomains / crossdomain, the backend is a joke.. there are apparently other problems left, since domain names show up empty, first visit is from 3606 days ago etc.
I've been interested in reports about Exit Pages and the clickheat map, but neither works for me (in the Click Map Report I get the OWA login).

Maybe something stupid as having missed a required "http://" when setting up the domain _name_ happened..?!

I'll send the fixes I've done so far to the team/author, but will stay with Piwik.

Re: Some things I learned in web-development

Q-efx — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:52:59 -0000

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Re: Some things I learned in web-development

SvenBraune — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:26:25 -0000

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Re: Some things I learned in web-development

Stollpe — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:05:11 -0000

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Re: Better than piwik

Q-efx — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 07:48:08 -0000

Well, first:

As I wrote: OsDate crashed with piwik.

Second: There are good plugins, one for wordpress, and one for mediawiki and one for media gallery. So should be able to create your own plugins.

third: It is faster on used websites. Cause you could include it with a php ( If on same server, and it seems to be more responsive on used sites )

Fourth: It is very easy to include your own data in statistics. With something like this:

$app_params['page_title'] = $title; //The title of the web page

So, whatever you like to track, could be easy added

Read more here:

http://wiki.openwebanalytics.c...

The wiki is not full of data. I know. But this is cause it lacks "popularity". But you could use and create the documentation from the source files. They are not the best. But it should be enough.

And in owa, you have a "small" acl system. Which could be useful.

And the gui, is much cleaner, and more accessible than the piwik one.

Well, but at least. If you want to test things. And have to decide between piwik or owa. You should test it on your own.

I prefer owa, over piwik. But that is just my point of view. If you like owa ( after testing ) you should spread the word about it. :)

Re: Better than piwik

Arie — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:28:01 -0000

I wonder why do you specify that piwik is not stable. I am currently evaluating os web analytics tools and hit your post. From a first look it seems that Open Web Analytics is less mature and less developed. Documentation lacks, no live examples - what makes you think that OWA is better than piwik? Looking for information that will help my evaluation

Re: About

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Re: OsDate and Piwik problem/ crawltrack

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:57:36 -0000

Hmm, I will stick with open web analytics. Another nice feature is that it could run with a cron. Which calculate the "incoming" data. Which frees resources on page loading.

And it has a nice wordpress plugin, for more accurate data.

Oh and you could easily extend the collected data with own settings, when you run it with php code. Which could look like this:

// OWA run time configuration
$config['site_id'] = $site_id // Your site's tracking id

// New Instance of OWA
$owa = new owa_php($config);

// Event specific params
$app_params['user_name'] = $user_name; // The user name of the user
$app_params['email_address'] = $email_address; // The user's email address
$app_params['ip'] = $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDRESS']; // The IP address of the user

// Logs the event
$owa-?>logEvent('my_module.password_reset', $app_params);

?>

Re: OsDate and Piwik problem/ crawltrack

Anthon — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 21:04:42 -0000

You have to make some changes to the Piwik tracking code to accommodate the XHTML.

The easiest approach is to host a copy of piwik.js in the OsDate public_html/javascript folder, and then insert a simplified version of the tracking code into the OsDate template.

var tracker = Piwik.getTracker("http://stats.u-r-reality.de/pi...", 1);
tracker.trackPageView();
tracker.enableLinkTracking();

Re: Better than piwik

Zoran — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:18:17 -0000

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