Analytics Data Your Way Free With Piwik Analytics" Brand New Features

(PRWEB) October 26, 2012

Piwik, the world’s leading and free open source web analytics software, has integrated three major new features into the latest release: Transitions, Geolocation, and Internal Site Search. “Piwik is going strong adding new features, roughly once a month” according to Adrian Speyer, Marketing Leader at Piwik. “If you look, Google has shuttered Urchin and AWstats development has stalled. There is little, if any support for those who stick around with those solutions. Piwik has a very strong international team focused on continual improvements, including performance. Just a small sampling of the features added in the past year include: Log Import functionality, Google Analytics API import, improved real-time analytics, reports via SMS, a more powerful iPhone and Android App, Row Evolution, and Do Not Track Support.”

In June 2012, Piwik conducted a user survey which helped reinforce the need for such features to be added to Piwik.

The first new feature users will find, in the new 1.9 release, is called Transitions. This feature allows website owners to see how visitors come to each website page and where they leave to. This will provide website owners with a better way to see how users flow through their website.

The second new feature, is internal site search analytics. Out of the box, Piwik will track users internal site searches and the keywords they use. It uses the standard query strings to achieve this but is fully customizable in the admin settings. Website owners will also be able to determine which keywords resulted in no results, and in turn what content website visitors were looking for.

The third new feature added was GeoIP. GeoIP allows website owners to know the location of user traffic by country, region and city. Users have the option to use one of the following GeoIP solutions that uses the Maxmind database including: GeoIP PHP API, GeoIP PECL extension, GeoIP module for Apache or GeoIP module for Nginx.

With this release, Piwik has also announced plans to move away from Flash-based maps, to a fully open source image technology solution built on Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG).

According to Adrian Speyer, “We are really proud of all these new features and what more we have in store for the future. For companies who consider owning their own data important, such as financial institutions, or organizations and government agencies concerned about respecting user privacy laws, Piwik is a solid choice. Piwik also offers amazing flexibility via a comprehensive API and easy integrations via community plugins for most major CMS products like WordPress or eCommerce solutions like Magento.”

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About Piwik

Founded in 2008, Piwik is the world’s leading open source web analytics software, which lets website owners stay in control of their data. Piwik is installed on more than 330,000 websites across the Internet, translated into 46 languages and used in more than 130 countries. For a free, instant download of the Piwik web analytics tool that has already been downloaded over a million times to date, please visit piwik.org.

Analytics Data Your Way Free With Piwik Analytics" Brand New Features

AHosting Advises Users To Update Piwik Following Hacking

Hudson, FL (PRWEB) November 29, 2012

AHosting, a leading provider of personal and enterprise hosting solutions, has issued a warning to those of its clients using the Piwik analytics platform to update their installation.

Users of Piwik who updated to or installed Piwik version 1.9.2 on the evening of Monday, November 26th are at risk after Piwik’s main server was hacked and malicious code added to the applications files.

Piwik is a popular self-hosted open source analytics platform used by many webmasters to monitor traffic on their sites. It is a widely-used alternative to proprietary analytics solutions like Google Analytics.

Users are advised to back up their data before deleting their installation and re-installing a version that has been verified as clean. The Piwik.org server was breached via a security vulnerability in a WordPress plugin, and malicious PHP code was added, which inserted a backdoor that caused servers with the infected version to send data to a third party.

“We’re great fans of Piwik,” stated Ahosting, Inc.s VP of Sales, Nick Max, “However, we feel we need to take a proactive stance on security for our users. If you updated your Piwik installation during the time span in question, backing up and reinstalling is the best way to be sure that your data is safe.”

The speed with which the breach the was noticed and fixed is an indication of the commitment and expertise of the Piwik community. The compromised version was only available on their server for 8 hours, and a sanitized version was quickly made available.

Piwik is one of a number of popular open source applications that have been the victim of hackers in recent months. In September, the MySQL administration tool, phpMyAdmin was also found to contain malicious code.

For further information, please consult the security report released by the Piwik development team.

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About Ahosting:

Ahosting is a managed web hosting provider with facilities in Orlando, FL, Detroit, MI, and Charlotte, NC, owned and operated by Ahosting, Inc., supplying hosting services that are truly beyond imagination. Since 2002, AHosting has established one of the webs premier solutions for reseller web hosting, multiple IP hosting, dedicated servers, and VPS hosting. For more information, visit http://www.ahosting.net.

AHosting Advises Users To Update Piwik Following Hacking