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What is Open Web Analytics?
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• Is a open source web analytics software that allows you to track and
analyze how people use your websites.
• You have 100% control of your own code, your own server setup and
your own data
• Provides developer access through an API
• Built-in support for tracking websites made with popular CMS such as
Wordpress and MediaWiki.
• Plug-in for Drupal 6.x and 7.x available
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Functionality
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• The standard statistics reports
• Top keywords and search engines
• Country information
• Providers, operating systems
• Time on site, pages per visit, repeated visits
• Real time statistical data
• Historical Reports
• E-commerce statistics
• Goal conversion tracking
• Campaign tracking
• Conversion tracking
• Action tracking.
• Visitor Geo-location
• etc
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More Functionality
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• “In-page” Tracking
• Click Heatmaps
shows where clicks are occurring on a web page.
• Mouse Movements (recording and playback).
Recording the mouse movements – domstreams.
• Click Tracking Tracking of clicks on all
Individual visitor level click-stream report.
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Technology
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• Open source web analytics software created by Peter Adams
• Written in PHP
• Uses a MySQL database
• Provides a REST based APIs
• Developer documentation for extending OWA
• CMS Integrations: MediaWiki, WordPress and Drupal.
• Offers Javascript and PHP trackers
A side-by-side comparison between OWA and Google Analytics.
http://www.openwebanalytics.com/?page_id=158
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Other possible tools
1. Piwik
2. AWStats
3. Yahoo! Web Analytics
4. Twitalyzer
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Open source: Products:
1. Coremetrics(IBM)
2. Omniture(Adobe)
3. WebTrends
4. Optimizely
5. Compete
x Democratic political effects of Open Government Data:
- establish transparency
- control responsibility and legitimacy
- resolve complex (administratative) questions
x Avoid institutional encrustation which doesn’t follow the public’s interest -> to the public it looks like democracy is not working -> disenchantment with politics