Piwik Mobile 1.9.5

Piwik Mobile 1.9.5 is now available! This update includes the following changes:

• Compatibility with upcoming Piwik 1.12
• It is now possible to use the periods day, week, month and year in Visitor Log. This is especially interesting if you have only a handful of users per day. [#3872]

Are you an Android user and the app crashes on start?

Try to disable developer options in Android settings, for instance “do not keep activities”. See this bug ticket https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/TIMOB-12939 for more information.

Feel free to send us feature wishes, bug reports, wireframes, mockups or even layouts. We can improve Piwik Mobile much better with your feedback!

Presentation of Piwik’s collaborative translations platform: oTrance [Interview]

Piwik enables domain administrators, hobbyists, power users, personal website builders and everyone in between to access enormous amounts of data for website analytics. To support all those users, Piwik needs to be available in a number of different languages. From the start, we made internationalization (i18n) part of Piwik’s DNA. There are now dozens active [...]

Spotlight: Alwaysdata.com the company behind Piwik.org web hosting [Interview]

Piwik is the result of the work of many talented individuals and companies. Today we’d like to showcase Alwaysdata.com, the awesome web hosting company providing managed hosting for all Piwik.org websites and services. I recently met and asked a few questions to Cyril, co-founder of Alwaysdata.com and Piwik core developer. Learn more in the interview [...]

Install Piwik with 1-click using Installatron

We are proud to announce that Piwik Analytics is now available as one click install from Installatron! Installatron is a one-click web application installer that enables Piwik and other top web applications to be instantly installed and effortlessly managed. Get Piwik up and running on your website in seconds and discover just how easy Installatron makes [...]

Piwik at the 2013 Open Source Conference in Japan

Recently Piwik was represented by our fantastic Piwik Japan team, at the open source conference in Tokyo, Japan! See the photos below for an overview of their popular Piwik booth: A few words from Takeshi, Piwik Japan team member and webmaster of the great Japanese website at piwikjapan.org: We participated in the Open Source Conference [...]

New Piwik Release v1.11: New Features & Design Changes! [+ Screenshots]

We are very excited to announce the immediate availability of Piwik v1.11! Download Link How to update Piwik? List of all tickets closed: Changelog Piwik v1.11 is being released after nearly two months of development. It contains an awesome change to the design, seven new features, three usability improvements and 40+ bug fixes. Table Of [...]

Piwik 1.11

Welcome to the latest Piwik 1.11 and 1.11.1, which contains a new Visitor Map, a new Real Time Map, new Login form design, new Admin menu design, and many bug fixes and small improvements!

What’s new in Piwik 1.11?

• Visitors World Map. View the visitors statistics by Country, Region, City on this new beautiful world map which zooms into continents and countries!
• Real time World Map. Check out the new widget «Real time map» or go to Visitors>Real Time Map to see your latest visitors on the map, and hover on them to see a tooltip with all visitor info.
• Flash-free software – no browser plugin required. With the new SVG VIsitor Maps, we have removed the last SWF file from Piwik. Piwik now is entirely built on open technologies and standards!
• New Tracking Code Generator. In Settings> Tracking Code, check out the new screen which hopefully is easier to use. Also we now advertise the Asynchronous code only. Of course the old Synchronous JS code will still work the same, but we now recommend in docs to use the async code.
• New reports: the «All Referrers» shows a global view of your referrers. The new «User Language» reports on the user language as set in their browser, and complements the «User county» report.
• Receive SMS report at a particular hour. We’ve set our daily SMS report in Piwik, to send at 7AM, which works great as an alarm clock for a «Stats Start of the day»!
• New website setting: whether to track URL Fragment or not (everything after # in the URL)
• Added call to Donations! Let’s be honest: Piwik is not backed by a rich company, we are a true open source project, and we really need the support of our community to keep up this pace of new releases and quality. Thank you for your donations.
• More features and bug fixes! see the release blog post for more screenshots
• We also fixed some bugs that many of you have been waiting for
  • Custom Dashboards will now correctly restore their preferences on further reload of the dashboards
  • Users using OVH web host (very popular in Europe) will be happy to know we have fixed bug #2997- Piwik will now just work on OVH without manual configuration!
• Security: We would like to thank the Security Researcher Leone Pontorieri who responsibly disclosed a XSS vulnerability (which we’ve fixed) as part of our Security Bug Bounty Program.

After You Update

• Please use the forums for free support.
• After the update, if you get a white page or the CSS is not working (Piwik appears black and white), see this FAQ.
• Please help us spread the word about Piwik on your twitter, blog, website, to your friends, at conferences, etc.
  Already 460,000 websites have liberated their web analytics but this is just the beginning. Thank you for your support!

Important Documentation & Pages

• NEW: Custom Alerts Crowdfunding campaign. Help us raise funds for this amazing feature!
• How do I White Label Piwik, to change the Logo, the Colors, add custom widgets, etc.
• Track Visitors using a Custom Unique ID, instead of using IP Address
• Importing Google Analytics data in Piwik
• List of all How To Videos
• Donate to Piwik development fund
• Other recent new features:
  • Analytics Page Overlay report documentation – explains how to use and understand the Page Overlay report
  • Annotations - explains how to create annotations and how to use them
  • Geo location user manual. Geolocation is the process of determining where an IP address is geographically located.

List of 67 tickets closed in Piwik 1.11:

• Fixed in 1.11.1: #3803 New Config setting: window_look_back_for_visitor for greater accuracy of returning visitors
• Fixed in 1.11.1: #3809 Include encoding in .svg header
• #3731 Redesign login form
• #3632 Faster & Reliable Tracking: piwik.php asynchronous tracking import, by replaying piwik.php access logs every N minutes
• #1845 Improve Javascript Tracking Code admin screen: asynchronous code, other options
• #3721 Migrate Piwik from SVN to GIT and GitHub!
• #3445 Setup Jenkins to run PHPUnit test suite
• #3232 Page URLs reports: allow to aggregate Hash tag values
• #517 For a visit via a campaign, if the campaign keyword is not set, detect keyword from Referrer URL
• #3359 Security: use POST request instead of get to avoid parameters logging
• #3633 Piwik official URL is now: http://builds.piwik.org/latest.zip
• #3722 Setup Travis CI to run our test suite on each pull request automatically
• #3726 New report: Display browser language of the visitors
• #3619 Improve the Referrers > Overview report
• #3430 use oTrance tool to manage all Piwik translations
• #3775 Advertise Asynchronous JS code by default
• #1552 Improve Admin menus (design, UX, submenus)
• #1657 Add option that tracking tag groups Page titles by domain name
• #1899 Add a Referer report listing all websites, search engines, campaigns in one unified report
• #3229 Default top right widget in dashboard should display the Piwik promo video
• #2724 Bug in collapse function of Actions tables
• #3642 User agent information can be identified when use the log analysis
• #3783 cron archiver curl error – patch attached
• #3298 Fennec User Agent obsolete
• #3557 Add Xbox and NetFront browser detection (WiiU, PS Vita, 3DS)
• #3617 Consistent Next buttons in Installer
• #3666 Remove SWFObject library from Piwik core -> No More Flash!
• #3704 Task Scheduler Improvements
• #3758 Change Google Logo to the new icon
• #3768 Diplay a notice message when stats are publicly viewable
• #728 Add a manual «update check» in the Piwik admin UI screens
• #3151 PiwikTracker.java sync with PHP tracker and release 1.0
• #3337 MobileMessaging list of improvements
• #3706 Scheduled report : select at which hour reports should be sent
• #2830 Tracker cache files should expire to pick up recent changes
• #3203 email reports with graph sometimes throw Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in plugins/ImageGraph/API.php on line 323
• #3252 Update Thunderbird icon and name
• #3299 Visitor Generator to use API call instead of sql query – Best practise
• #3365 For Actions reports, add the &flat=0 parameter to the API call even if the view is not flattened
• #3655 NetcraftSurveyAgent missing in the bot list
• #3669 Problem with «Visits by Day of Week» + «segment API»
• #3670 Warning in SEORank widget
• #3674 When switching columns layout to less columns, widgets should be moved to visible column
• #3678 archive.php failing on GeoIP Update in 1.10.1
• #3683 Dashboard doesn’t show «related report» data for date ranges
• #3684 system check: syntax error or access violation
• #3685 clicking on sparklines in Goals OVerview does not reload the top graph
• #3686 Warning: exec() [function.exec]: Unable to fork
• #3687 Anonymous should not be allowed to have a user language in language preference
• #3690 Log component: use fileFormatter when writing to file
• #3707 Piwik Widgets in IFRAME in Internet Explorer
• #3727 SEO Domain age is incorrect
• #3733 User change language should check for token (reported by Merlin Mayr)
• #3736 Remove references of .svn in code
• #3746 Bug in overlay when using setSiteId with a string value..
• #3751 Nonsensical «Invalid referer detected»
• #3755 Pageviews and Unique pageviews mixed in row evolution
• #3761 Tracker cache file general.php not generated when not found
• #3769 Error message / backtrace appears on login page
• #3772 Annotations not working in edge case
• #3774 tracker cookie secure
• #3784 Transitions API getTransitionsForPage ignores $segment and $limitBeforeGrouping
• #3787 Tracking API setVisitorId should throw exception if the visitor ID is not an hexadecimal string
• #3778 Add Amazon S3 log format to import_logs.py
• #3551 Show a warning banner to notify when tracker’s record_statistics is not enabled
• #3577 Row Evolution: Mobile vs Desktop doesn’t show any data
• #3753 UserAgent detection inside iOS App (UIWebView) gives the wrong version number
• #3568 Since 1.9.2 optOut does not work any more for Chrome in multi-port configuration for one domain
• #3728 Switch to Git removed empty directories

Happy, Open Analytics!

Quick Updates: Google+, Beta 1.11 and French Support!

Quick News Flashes We had some quick updates we wanted to share with you. Google+ Community Piwik has launched an official community on Google+. You can check it out here. Our goal is to engage users about Piwik and on topics about analytics. The forums will still remain the primary point for support, but Google+ [...]

C# Tracking and Analytics API Clients Available Now

What makes Piwik a fantastic Web Analytics tool is its support for open APIs. Piwik allows you to access all of its data points and track users using standard APIs. The reference documentation is found here : http://piwik.org/docs/analytics-api. Piwik ships with a PHP API client to interact with its APIs. Developers around the world have [...]

Piwik Mobile 1.9.4

Piwik Mobile 1.9.4 is now available! This update includes the following bug fixes:

• Subtables were not working when using Piwik 1.10 or higher, this is now fixed [#3764]
• Data of two domains was getting mixed when switching domains in real time screen [#3668]

Feel free to send us feature wishes, bug reports, wireframes, mockups or even layouts. We can improve Piwik Mobile much better with your feedback!

Piwik Available Again in Microsoft Windows Web App Gallery

We are proud to announce that Piwik Analytics is back in the Windows Web App Gallery. The Windows App Gallery makes it easy to get Piwik installed on your IIS server. Downloaded almost 30,000 times, now even more Microsoft IIS users can install Piwik using the Web Platform Installer. If you are an existing IIS user running Piwik, we’d love [...]

Piwik is on GitHub!

We have migrated the code base from SVN to Git Yes, Piwik has moved to GitHub! This is a significant technology move for Piwik and the team is thrilled by this change. Being on GitHub, we hope new developers and companies who believe in our mission to « Liberate Web Analytics » will join us [...]

Clearcode – development company doing business with Piwik

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Webinar Piwik in German: Webstatistik mit Piwik [Updated: with slideshow!]

Announcement of a webinar in German to learn more about Piwik directly from a Piwik expert and lead Mobile app developer Thomas Steur. Wer: Thomas Steur, Piwik Mobile Lead, Software Engineer, Mayflower GmbH Was: kostenloses Web Seminar: Webstatistik mit Piwik Wann: Donnerstag, 14. Februar 2013, 14:00 Uhr Dauer: ca. 45 Min. Update! The webinar FAQ [...]

New Piwik Release v1.10: MAJOR new Features! Overview w/ Screenshots

We are very excited to announce the immediate availability of Piwik v1.10.1 Download Link How to update Piwik? List of all tickets closed: Changelog Just like version 1.9, released two months ago, Piwik version 1.10 is a major new release with another set of amazing new features, including: The ability to see web analytics data [...]

Piwik 1.10 and Piwik 1.10.1

Welcome to the latest Piwik 1.10.1, which contains major new features, smaller features, and many bug fixes and improvements.

What’s new in Piwik 1.10.1?

• New Page Overlay Report:  (this is still in beta… but already awesome!)
• Create text annotations! Annotate a particular date on the graph and add a text note. Visualize all notes for the current date range. Star notes. ENJOY!
• New Social Networks reports! Check out the new Social Websites report in Referers> Websites.
• New System Check page in the Settings, available to the Super User, useful to check your server configuration is compatible with Piwik
• Added call to Donations! Let’s be honest: Piwik is not backed by a rich company, we are a true open source project, and we badly need your support to keep up this pace of new releases and quality. We hope you will like the new widget call to donation and that you will use it!  :)
• Exclude visitors based on User Agent (it was already possible to exclude by IP address)
• More! see the release blog post for more screenshots
• We also fixed some bugs that many of you have been waiting for
  • Custom Dashboards will now correctly restore their preferences on further reload of the dashboards
  • Users using OVH web host (very popular in Europe) will be happy to know we have fixed bug #2997- Piwik will now just work on OVH without manual configuration!
• Security: We would like to thank the Security Researchers Mateusz Goik,  Paweł Hałdrzyński and Artur Czyż, for their responsible disclosure. They have all reported XSS vulnerabilities (which we’ve fixed) as part of our Security Bug Bounty Program. Thank you to them for making Piwik more secure! Please update now.

After You Update

• Please use the forums for free support.
• Some of you during the Auto Update will get the error: «Incompatible archive: PCLZIP_ERR_BAD_FORMAT (-10) : Unable to find End of Central Dir Record signature» -> Edit your piwik/config/global.ini.php and replace the line starting with latest_version_url with this new line:

  latest_version_url = http://builds.piwik.org/latest.zip

  Then proceed to the Auto 1 Click Upgrade which should now work again! (this is an exceptional change, sorry about this).

• After the update, if you get a white page or the CSS is not working (Piwik appears black and white), see this FAQ.
• Please help us spread the word about Piwik on your twitter, blog, website, to your friends, at conferences, etc.
  Already 460,000 websites have liberated their web analytics but this is just the beginning. Thank you for your support!

New Documentation & Pages

• Analytics Page Overlay report documentation – explains how to use and understand the Page Overlay report
• Annotations - explains how to create annotations and how to use them
• Web Analytics solution for Governments?
• Start of Crowdfunding for Piwik 2.0
• How do I White Label Piwik, to change the Logo, the Colors, add custom widgets, etc.
• Track Visitors using a Custom Unique ID, instead of using IP Address
• Importing Google Analytics data in Piwik
• Donate to Piwik development fund
• Geo location user manual. Geolocation is the process of determining where an IP address is geographically located.
• Piwik Web Analytics Essentials [Book Review]
• List of all How To Videos
• Learn all about Piwik’s Analytics Features [9 minutes Video Tutorial]
• Analytics Video – Learn about your Visitors
• How to Setup Piwik Analytics [Video]
• How to Install Piwik Analytics [Video]
• Welcome to Piwik Analytics [Video]

New FAQs

• How do I fix the error “Unable to find the wrapper «https» – did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?”
• How do I disable the OPTIMIZE queries which take too long on my server?
• After the update, I get sql errors, I would like to try the update again. How do I force Piwik to re-upgrade the database from a past version?
• How do I get company and ISP information using GeoIP databases?
• How do I take notes of particular events influencing my traffic?
• How do I get the Visitor Geo Location data from the Visitor IP?

List of 68 tickets fixed in this release

• Piwik 1.10.1 fixes a few non critical bugs that were reported in the hours following 1.10 release.
• #2997 OVH Web Host compatibility: detect when file sessions are too slow and use db sessions instead
• #2465 Page Overlay – Analytics Overlay on your site!
• #134     Bulk load Piwik logs with documented API: improved tracking performance, allow performance testing
• #3456     Create auto-updater & auto-downloader for GeoIP databases
• #3481     Set lat/long via Tracking API
• #1470     Continuous Integration server improvements
• #1253     Create annotations in the Graphs and list all Text notes for a given date range
• #1465     Integration testing: list of ideas of improvement
• #2375     Exclude Visitors matching User Agent across all websites
• #2448     Ecommerce analytics improvements
• #2791     Social networks tab and widget
• #3227     Replace SimpleTests with PHPUnit
• #3520     Tracking API support new Parameters for User Agent and Browser Language
• #3525     SEO Widget improvements: Display Google indexed pages, number of entries in DMOZ, and more accurate Domain age
• #3534     Get city, region, country name, lat/long, using via the API UserCountry.getLocationFromIP
• #3565     Tracking API: new function setPageCharset to set the character set used on the tracked page
• #3567     Visitor Log: Display Web Visitor GPS coordinates: latitude longitude
• #3624     Add call to Donation in Piwik – Piwik is Free, but we need your support
• #3636     Need MultiSite API enhancement
• #1554     Installation/CoreUpdater: language selector is gone
• #3175     Auto update link not accessible with ipads also bind click/touch event
• #3349     getUsersAccessFromSite has a different behaviour if only one member
• #3450     umlauts in sitesearch keywords
• #3511     Some cities appear multiple times in a same period report
• #3515     Fails to Geo lookup IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses
• #3539     Site Search keywords and categories should be recorded in lower case
• #3543     Piwik 1.9.2 dashboard and widgets don’t stick
• #3550     GoalManager: misspelled variable leads to incorrect attribution
• #3582     hideColumns/showColumns not working in Metadata API
• #3458     Improve GeoIP diagnostics
• #3491     Use mt_rand instead of rand
• #3542     Cleanup social network icons
• #3643     French Translation for CoreAdminHome_PiwikIsInstalledAt, CoreAdminHome_TrustedHostSettings
• #2057     Checking the In- and Outbounds of a page
• #2122     System Check page in Admin menu + usability improvements
• #3213     Add Google ChromeOS as operating system
• #3316     Option to disable seriesPicker for jqPlot
• #3559     allow geoipUpdateRows.php to run in browser w/o timing out
• #3585     API: getProcessedReport metadata API new parameter showRawMetrics to return all raw metrics
• #3616     Developers: prepare useful Log file for Piwik devs to have data to play with
• #3657     Allow disable OPTIMIZE TABLE queries in config file
• #766     Archiving Memory exhausted error – Archiving memory leaks
• #3259     Warning: htmlspecialchars() Invalid multibyte sequence in argument in core/DataTable/Renderer.php on line 223
• #3384     in maintenance mode, links don’t work since Proxy disabled
• #3432     Flattening lists and filtering throws error when used together
• #3440     widget error message «The report “nb_uniq_pageviews” was requested but it is not available»
• #3454     Detecting site search via URL parameter with square brackets does not work
• #3527     PHP Notice: geoip_record_by_name() in Pecl.php with IPV6
• #3529     Piwik 1.9.1 Visitor Location (City) widget: Minor problem
• #3532     API output: when &flat=1 is used, data set is not sorted by the expected column
• #3535     Typo in /lang/en.php file
• #3547     API to invalidateArchivedReports should force cron to reprocess old reports even if there are no new visits today
• #3548     Log Analytics: Classify user agents containing «spider» as bots
• #3566     Live API getVisitorDetails should return city, region, latitude, longitude
• #3572     Piwik SSL detection should also read proxy ssl header: HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO
• #3575     ResponseBuilder should not modify DataTable_Simple instances at all when format=original
• #3576     ajaxHelper class breaks dashboard when range period is used
• #3579     Reprocessing logs doesn’t regenerati weekly values
• #3583     blank page in piwik because of file core/lic.log
• #3590     Custom Variables in the Visitor Log – Scope «Page» not shown when no value set
• #3608     Division by zero in Privacy Manager Controller
• #3614     UI: Small display bug in Piwik top menu
• #3615     Tracker: when «visitor_days_since_last» is greater than 0, assume visitor_returning = 1
• #3621     Full screen widgets Mode when clicking»Maximise»
• #3628     Clicking on sparkline to reload graph should use the Limit selector
• #3641     Bug fix for preventing the error messages when import data from IIS log
• #3426     1.8.4: The parameter “idSite” doesn’t have a correct type, and a default value wasn’t provided.
• #3472     Changing the dashboard doesnt work

Happy, Open Analytics!

Web Analytics solution for Governments?

Piwik’s increase in popularity is a huge reward to the team and a strength for the community! In the last 12 months, Piwik has seen +25% growth in the number of websites tracked, to reach 460,000+ websites. Government agencies, Universities and NGOs have started to make the choice to use the open source analytics solution. [...]

Happy new year

  For 2013 we wish you all the best, but most importantly: health, mindfulness, happiness, and peace. Happy new year!

Piwik needs your help now!

Christmas is a time of giving. So, if you are feeling generous and also believe in the ethics of Piwik and its team of hardworking volunteers, we could really use your help (and any amount counts!). A team of engineers around the world are currently devoting numerous hours to developing features for Piwik, for free, [...]

Start of Crowdfunding for Piwik 2.0: Donate to directly support the Piwik 2.0 development!

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