Mahara offers basic statistics by default, but advanced reporting functionnality is not available. By using a separate tool that integrates well with Mahara, such as the open source Piwik, Mahara administrators can benefit from a multitude of insightful analytics reports. This presentation will showcase some examples of such analytics and how they can help: - Understand user behavior and their interactions with Mahara. - Increase user engagement by analysing the data and implementing changes. - monitor over time the availability, speed, and evolution of the Mahara system.

1. Analytics for ePortfolios

2. Who am I?
● Matthieu Aubry
● Frenchman living in
New Zealand
● Founded Piwik in 2007
● Lead Developer
● Software Engineer
● Favorite things in life:
Privacy, Freedom,
www, Peace, Love and
Nature.

3. Benefits of using Analytics
● Understand your audience
● Measure interactions
● Monitor usage over time
● And... increase your
ePortfolio usage!

4. Data insights for
ePortfolios and websites,
using Piwik

5. What is ?
The leading open Web Analytics platform
Used by more than 1% of the Internet
1,100,000 websites worldwide
Translated in 53 languages
Free(dom) software

6. Our Mission Statement
"To create, as a community,
the leading international open
source web analytics platform,
that gives every user
full control of their data."

7. Let's see how
Piwik can help you
understand your audience

8. What are their computer settings?

9. Which browser are they using?

10. What types of devices are popular?

11. Where are users connecting from?

12. Let's take a look at Aotearoa!

13. Visitors by Region

14. Visitors by city

15. When are they using the ePortfolio?

16. Are users active over the weekend?

17. Find out how engaged
your users are

18. Are some users really engaged?

19. Which pages are
the most popular this month?

20. What do users search for
in the search box?

21. Which pages are most clicked
in your search results?

22. So, now we have learnt
about our users and
how they interact
with the site
What's next?

23. Get the most out of
your analytics tool

24. Web Analytics process
for the win
● Define a list of goals
● Measure
● Analyse
● Test and implement
● Repeat

25. Define what you want users
to do on your website
Examples of Goals for your ePortfolio
you may want to track in Piwik:
● new content is created
● existing content is updated
● content is shared
● a new user signs up

26. Create Goals
then view the number of conversions,
conversion rates, and more within Piwik.

27. Observe variations in popularity
of content over time
Your analytics tool becomes more useful
with time as it lets you compare data

28. Analyse Segments of users
Do advanced analysis by looking
at a subset of your users.

29. Most analytics tools give
only aggregated reports...
Piwik offers insights
on a per-user level

30. View details of all visits

33. Users appear in Real-Time on the map

34. VS other analytics tools
● Privacy compliance
● No data storage limit
● Only you will have access to your data
● Real-time tracking
● Open Platform and Marketplace
● 6+ years of experience, 100+ features

35. More benefits out of the box
● Upload your custom logo
● Create scheduled Email reports
● Access to all the data via Web
APIs

36. Analytics on the go
View data in your browser or on the go
with Piwik Mobile on Android and iOS

37. Mahara & Piwik integration
Just a few examples of how Mahara could integrate
with Piwik:
● Report the type of users (students, teachers,
admins)
● Report the type of content being created
● Track username of people who signin
● Track users uniquely across all their devices
● Integrate Piwik reports within Mahara

38. Using Piwik
If you decide to use Piwik for your
ePortfolio site, you may also:
● Track your other websites
● Track your intranets sites
● Track your mobile apps usage
… into your existing Piwik server!

39. Get started with Piwik
Learn more at http://piwik.org
● User guides / FAQs / Forums
Use Piwik!
● Ask your Mahara service provider
about installing Piwik on your ePortfolio
● Or download Piwik from http://piwik.org
● Or benefit from Piwik Cloud hosting at
http://piwik.org/hosting/

41. Additional slides

42. View where users click on each page

43. View the flow of clicks before and
after a page, here for the Résumé

44. Alert me by email
when the site becomes slow