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# Piwik - piwik.org
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## Description
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Piwik is the leading Free/Libre open source Web Analytics platform.
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Piwik is a full featured PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver.
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At the end of the five minute installation process you will be given a JavaScript code.
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Simply copy and paste this tag on websites you wish to track and access your analytics reports in real time.
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Piwik aims to be a Free software alternative to Google Analytics, and is already used on more than 1,000,000 websites.
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## Mission Statement
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> « To create, as a community, the leading international Free/Libre web analytics platform, providing access to all functionality through open components and open APIs. »
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Or in short:
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> « Liberate Web Analytics »
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## License
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Piwik is released under the GPL v3 (or later) license, see [misc/gpl-3.0.txt](misc/gpl-3.0.txt)
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## Requirements
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* PHP 5.3.2 or greater
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* MySQL 4.1 or greater, and either MySQLi or PDO library must be enabled
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* Piwik is OS / server independent
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See http://piwik.org/docs/requirements/
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## Install
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* Upload piwik to your webserver
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* Point your browser to the directory
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* Follow the steps
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* Add the given javascript code to your pages
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* (You may also generate fake data to experiment, by enabling the plugin VisitorGenerator)
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See http://piwik.org/docs/installation/
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If you do not have a server, consider our Piwik Hosting partner: http://piwik.org/hosting/
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## Changelog
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For the list of all tickets closed in the current and past releases, see http://piwik.org/changelog/
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## Participate!
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We believe in liberating Web Analytics, providing a free platform for simple and advanced analytics. Piwik was built by dozens of people like you,
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and we need your help to make Piwik better… Why not participate in a useful project today?
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You will find pointers on how you can participate in Piwik at http://piwik.org/get-involved/
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## Contact
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http://piwik.org
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hello@piwik.org
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About us: http://piwik.org/the-piwik-team/
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## More information
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What makes Piwik unique from the competition:
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* Real time web analytics reports: in Piwik, reports are by default generated in real time.
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For high traffic websites, you can choose the frequency for reports to be processed.
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* You own your web analytics data: since Piwik is installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database and you can get all the statistics
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using the powerful Piwik Analytics API.
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* Piwik is a Free Software which can easily be configured to respect your visitors privacy.
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* Modern, easy to use User Interface: you can fully customize your dashboard, drag and drop widgets and more.
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* Piwik features are built inside plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need.
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You can build your own web analytics plugins or hire a consultant to have your custom feature built in Piwik
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* Vibrant international Open community of more than 200,000 active users (tracking even more websites!)
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* Advanced Web Analytics capabilities such as Ecommerce Tracking, Goal tracking, Campaign tracking,
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Custom Variables, Email Reports, Custom Segment Editor, Geo Location, Real time maps, and more!
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Documentation and more info on http://piwik.org
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## Code Status
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The Piwik project uses an ever-expanding comprehensive set of thousands of unit tests and dozens of integration [tests](https://github.com/piwik/piwik/tree/master/tests),
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running on the hosted distributed continuous integration platform Travis-CI.
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Build status (master branch) [](https://travis-ci.org/piwik/piwik) - Screenshot tests Build [](https://travis-ci.org/piwik/piwik-ui-tests)
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