A List of Open Source Web Analytics Software

If you run a website, then you may be interested in tracking your website statistics. Such as, detailed real time reports on your website visitors – the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages, who links to your articles and so on.

As a web master, you have two choices.

1. You can run a third party web analytics software like Google Analytics, Quantcast, Compete and so on. In which case you won’t have full control over your website statistics.
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2. Download and run an open source analytics software – You have full control over who sees your website statistics and what to do with all the data you have collected.

Here is a list of open source web analytics tools (software) that is available for web masters who want to have full control over their web statistics data.

Piwik

Piwik is a PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own web server. At the end of the five minute installation process you will be given a JavaScript tag. Simply copy and paste this tag on websites you wish to track. Piwik provides detailed web statistics such as the keywords used by your visitors to find your website, analytics report as beautiful graphs that provide visual cues, and much more.

Awstats

AWStats is a free powerful and fully featured tool that generates advanced web analytics, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages.

Bbclone

BBclone is a web counter written in PHP and gives a detailed view of the visitors of your web site and the data they provided, like their IP, web browser and so on that visited the web site, not just showing a number of visitors. This is very handy for webmasters that want to see who is visiting their sites, what browser people use, where they came from etc.

For each visitor, BBClone can display – IP address, hostname, operating system, robots, browser, referring URL (where do they come from), visit date, number of time the visitor has loaded the page, number of visitor, and much more.

Open Web Analytics

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is a framework that provides a generic set of PHP and HTTP APIs that can be used to integrate web analytics into any application. The Framework also has built-in support for popular web applications (Blogs & Wikis) such as WordPress and MediaWiki.

CrawlTrack Web Analytics

CrawlTrack is a very good alternative to Google Analytics software. It provides deeper insights by providing unique statistics of your websites. For example, CrawlTrack can help you to protect your site by blocking numerous code injection or SQL injection tentatives. It positions itself not merely as a web analytics software, it also provides SEO analysis, Anti-hacking attempts, and  download counter. It is available in 7 different languages and is licensed under GNU/GPL.

Grape

Grape is a free, open source program that allows web developers to keep accurate statistics of visitors. If you prefer a simple interface with a limited albeit useful subset of all the data that can be collected related to your visitor demographics, then this web analytics software is for you.

The above mentioned tools incorporate many of the web analytics best practices. Simultaneously, providing the most relevant statistics for your website in a simple and lucid format.

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