Webopedia Term of the Day: what is Piwik? | Linux Today

Webopedia Term of the Day: what is Piwik?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 20, 2011

“Piwik is a free and open source Web analytics software program.
The program provides detailed reports on your website traffic,
including popular reports such as the search engines and keywords
visitors used to find your page, the language they speak, your
popular pages and other analytical reports.

“Piwik is a PHP MySQL software program that Web publishers need
to download and install on your own Web server. After the initial
set-up a JavaScript code is provided that you must copy and paste
on any websites you want to track using the Piwik Web analytics
software.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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