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piwik is different from the competition because:





1. the features are built inside plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need. If you are a developer, you can easily build your own plugins!


2. you own your data. Piwik being installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database and you can get all the statistics using open APIs (publishing the data in many formats: xml, json, php, csv)


3. (NOW AVAILABLE!!!) the user interface is fully customizable, you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display, create the reports you want

How many visitors came to my website last month and how long did they stay? Which were the top referrers and the most popular keywords? If a site owner wants to have answers to these questions a web analytics tool flashes into action. Google Analytics — the dominating flagship on the web analytics landscape — is often the first choice when it comes to measuring users’ activities; however there are solutions which can do more and can offer more flexibility which isn’t available in Google Analytics.

One of them is Reinvigorate Snoop, an add-on which comes alongside the web analytics tool reinvigorate, enables real-time web analytics and as such might beat the web analytics freak heart faster.