Before few minutes ago, I found something very interesting: Open Web Analytics
In few words…lets stop Google the monopolist with his user spyn’ and save the information for any our visitor only for us.
First of all I wanned to note that I have interests in the “Web Marketing” area and this idea is very good, they just did what I wanned to do a long time ago
Here are the features of this product:
Invocation
* PHP API – invoke OWA from within your PHP application. This allows for an easy way to build web analytics right into your application logic.
* Javascript Tag – invoke OWA from Javascript. This allows for remote logging and integration with non PHP based applications .
* WordPress v2.x plugin – full featured WordPress plugin seemlessly integrates OWA with the WordPress publishing platform and administration interface
* MediaWiki plugin – provides tracking of MediaWiki articles and special pages.Tracking/Reporting
* Track Page views, visits, and unique visitors over time
* Track unique, new, repeat visitors over time
* Multiple Web Site Support – track any number of web sites and view statistics in aggregate or by site
* Click-streams – view the actual click-stream of each visitor
* Click Tracking – Track where exactly on a web page users are clicking and view clicks by browser type
* Click Heat Maps – view a heat map of where users are clicking on your web pages
* Google Maps – map your visitors on Google Maps
* Google Earth (KML) – view your visitors in Google Earth via a KML file export
* RSS/ATOM subscription tracking – track unique feed readers, reader types, and feed requests
* Visitor Aging – understand the age of your repeat visitors.
* Canned and Custom Time Periods – generate reports using pre-defined reporting periods or custom date ranges
* Refering Page Analysis – View the title, anchor text, and surrounding text of inbound links from refering web pages
* View visits by user agent
* Track entry and exit pages
* Track pages by custom page typesDevelopment
* Full MVC based framework
* Module framework allows developers to extend OWA’s entitiies, events, reports, and graphs without modifying the base components.
* Plugin framework for authentication, database access objects, data validation, and geo-location
* Object Relational Mapping layer
* Lite templating layer
* Event handlersDeployment
* Events can be writen to the database asynchronously.
* OWA to can run on multiple front end web servers and write to a remote database.
* Event Logging and admin/reporting user interface can run on the same or seperate serversWordPress Specific Features
* Track visitors by WordPress user name or e-mail address they use in comments.
* Track all WordPress Page Types (Posts, Pages, Authors, Archives, Categories, etc.)
* Track the number of comments made by visit
* Reporting accessable via Admin Dashboard
* Track subscribers to RSS/Atom feedsMediaWiki Specific Features
* Track article , catageory and special pages.
* Track all visitors by user name and email address.
It look very promising, so I will a look on this tomo and will write my full review on this