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Piwik v1.11 is being released after nearly two months of development. It contains an awesome change to the design, seven new features, three usability improvements and 40+ bug fixes.

Table Of Contents (read more below):

New Visitors World Map (by Country, Region, City) and a New Real Time Map!

We are excited to bring you New Visitor Maps and Real Time Maps!

Exactly 149 users donated something, and all together you reached the funding goal! It was an awesome signal to us that the community is there to support our projects and that we are doing the right thing.

We have worked for months with Gregor Aisch, a leading data visualization expert from Germany and member of the Piwik team. Gregor built the maps from scratch, and we are excited to release this work under the GPL License v3:

Thanks to everyone who donated to our first crowdfunding campaign to make this possible! 

Visitors Map plotting visits Worldwide

This map shows the number of visits by city in France. Small cities are aggregated together with big ones (clustering) to make data analysis easier.

This map shows the zoom on Germany, so you can see how many visits each region got.

You can select in the dropdown to plot another metric (bounce rate, time on page, etc.).

When you click on a given Region or city, it opens the historical evolution of this region or city!

Let us know if you have any feedback or suggestion about the maps.

Real time visitor Map!

The new Real Time Visitor Map updates every 10 seconds to show your visitors in real time! Watch as your visitors come and go on your website.

Note: The bigger and the more yellow the bubbles, the most recent the visit is. Bubbles become smaller and more transparent as the visit is “older”.

Real time visitors shown on the world map

Visitors in North America, the mouse hovers on one visitor which displays the Visitor tooltip

The maps are built using the library Kartograph which Gregor created specifically for the Piwik maps (and which is released under GPL license).

New Admin Menu Design

Fabian Becker, one of our talented core developers, implemented a new design for Piwik’s admin menu that makes every admin page look better.

New Features

Tracking Code Generator

For those of you who aren’t interested in learning or writing JavaScript, but still want to take advantage of the Piwik tracker’s many options, you can now use this new admin page to generate custom JavaScript tracking code. Click on the options you want to enable or disable, and the JavaScript you need to use will be generated for you.

The page also lets you generate image tracking links, which you can use when JavaScript cannot be used:

Access this feature by going to Settings > Tracking Code.

New Report — All Referrers

We’ve added a new report that merges three other referrer reports: Keywords, Websites, Campaigns. You can use this new report to directly compare referrers of different types (like a specific search query and a specific website).

You can access this report by going to Referrers > Overview.

New Report — Browser Language

We’ve also added another new report to Visitors > Settings that shows the browser language of each of your visitors. Use this report to see the primary language of your visitors.

You can access this report by going to Visitors > Settings.

Improvements to the Referrers Overview page

We’ve made several changes to the Referrers Overview page to make it more useful. To be specific, we’ve:

• added the total number of visits to the main evolution graph so you can see how much each referrer type contributes to all of your visits:
• added evolution percentages to each referrer metric so you can see how they have changed since the last period:
• added a view that displays all Referrer reports at the bottom of the page so you can view each report in one place:

Choose whether to keep or discard URL fragments

You can now choose whether URL fragments (everything after the #) should be kept or discarded when tracking for all websites or each individual website.

The default behavior is to keep fragments, but if you don’t use AJAX and don’t care what anchors people view, discarding fragments might make your data easier to understand.

Access this feature by going to Settings > Websites.

Pick the hour to send e-mail reports

You can now schedule e-mail reports to be sent out at specific hours.

Idea: Could Piwik become your wake up clock? Configure to receive a SMS of your web stats every morning (right after breakfast?) to start your data-driven day.

Access this feature by going to Email Reports and either editing a scheduled report or creating a new one.

Usability Improvements

New Welcome Widget

We’ve added a new widget that contains the Piwik presentation video to the default dashboard. If you regularly have new users that are entirely new to Piwik, this widget will help to get them started.

Campaign keyword detection improvements

Finally, we’ve made some changes to the way campaign keywords are detected for Adwords campaigns. If campaign keywords aren’t supplied in a query parameter when tracking an Adword campaign, we try to glean them from the referrer URL used (eg. if the user visits from Google and clicked an Adwords). If a keyword still cannot be found in the Referrer URL, the referrer domain is used so you’ll still know where the Adwords campaign was visited from.

Custom Alerts Notifications: We need your help to implement this awesome feature in Piwik!

We’re getting closer and closer to version 2.0, and we’re not going to stop! We’re working on implementing more of the features in the Roadmap in order to reach this important milestone.

We have just started a new crowd funding campaign, to implement and design a new Custom Alerts feature. This lets you create alerts and be notified by email or SMS text message, when they trigger. For example you can be notified if your visitors count decreases (or increases!) more than 100%. You can even create complex alerts like “Send me an email when visitors from Google decrease 20% since last week” or “Send me a SMS if Ecommerce Revenue goes below 100E on a given day”. It will help you detect issues early, and stay on top of your business!

Pledge now to make this awesome feature possible!

Participate in Piwik

Are you a talented developer or an experienced User Interface designer? or maybe you like to write documentation or are a marketing guru?

If you have some free time, if you are a do-er and not a talker ;-) and if you want to contribute to one of the most awesome open source projects around, please get in touch with the Piwik team, or read this page to learn more…

Summary

For the full list of changes in Piwik 1.11 check out the Changelog.

Thank you to the core developers, all the beta testers and users, our official supporters, the translators & everyone who reported bugs or feature requests.

If you are a company and would like to support an important project like Piwik, get in touch, it means a lot to us. You can also participate in the project — and if you like what you read, please tell your friends and colleagues or write on your website, blog, forums, stackoverflow, etc.

Enjoy!

Google+ Community

Piwik has launched an official community on Google+. You can check it out here. Our goal is to engage users about Piwik and on topics about analytics. The forums will still remain the primary point for support, but Google+ offers us a way to truly connect with the community. In the future we hope to host some hangouts parties and possibly some Q &A’s. Stay tuned to see what we have in store!

Beta 1.11 – Testers Welcome

We have just released 1.11-beta available. Download the latest beta build here. NEW features: redesigned login screen, redesigned admin screen, new “Real time maps” and “Visitor maps”, new admin Javascript Script screen, improvements in Referers>Overview report, new browser languages report, and many other small features and bug fixes.

If you are ready and willing to update to latest beta, this is how you do it: Upload these files on top of your existing Piwik files, to upgrade. Upgrading should be safe and painless. If you have any problem, please post in the forum thread.Thank you for your help in testing!!

Developers can meet us on Github
Also don’t forget, you can now check us out on Github. Read more details about our move here. Thank you to the 700+ users who Starred the project, and for the useful pull requests!

French Community, new Support Forum in French
Bonjour à tous nos amis! Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer que nous offrons maintenant support dans un sous-forum en français. Visitez le forum ici!

Piwik ships with a PHP API client to interact with its APIs. Developers around the world have made available API clients in many languages including : Ruby (https://github.com/piwik/piwik-ruby-api & https://github.com/piwik/piwik-ruby-tracking), Java (https://github.com/piwik/piwik-java-tracking) and Python (https://github.com/piwik/piwik-python-api).

Today we announce the availability of the C# Tracking and Analytics API clients (https://github.com/piwik/piwik-dotnet-tracker & https://github.com/piwik/piwik-dotnet-api). They are fully tested and work with Piwik 1.5. By hosting it on GitHub we have high hopes the community will contribute to its development and bring it up to speed.

With these API clients, it is now possible to track users and access Piwik data points in any .NET application. Here are a couple of usage examples :

Page View Tracking

PiwikTracker piwikTracker = new PiwikTracker(1);
HttpWebResponse response = piwikTracker.doTrackPageView("Document title of current page view");

Goal Tracking

PiwikTracker piwikTracker = new PiwikTracker(1);
HttpWebResponse response = piwikTracker.doTrackGoal(1, 42.69F);

Add New Site

SitesManager siteManager = new SitesManager();
siteManager.setTokenAuth("TOKEN_AUTH");
string[] urls = { "http://brandNew", "http://shinyNew" };
string[] excludedIps = { "123.123.13.1", "212.21.11.2" };
string[] excludedQueryParameters = { "key1", "key2" };
int newSiteId = siteManager.addSite(
  "Brand New Site", 
  urls, 
  true, 
  excludedIps, 
  excludedQueryParameters, 
  "UTC-4", 
  "USD", 
  "group2", 
  new DateTime(2011, 01, 10)
);

Browsers Report

UserSettings userSettings = new UserSettings();
userSettings.setTokenAuth("TOKEN_AUTH");
ArrayList results = (ArrayList) userSettings.getBrowser(1, PiwikPeriod.MONTH, MagicDate.YESTERDAY);
System.Console.WriteLine(results.Count + " results found");
// Loop over each browser name (ie. LABEL)
foreach (Hashtable result in results)
 {
  // Display browser stats
  System.Console.WriteLine(
   result[UserSettings.LABEL] + " " +
   result[UserSettings.NB_UNIQ_VISITORS] + " " +
   result[UserSettings.NB_VISITS] + " " +
   result[UserSettings.NB_ACTIONS] + " " +
   result[UserSettings.MAX_ACTIONS] + " " +
   result[UserSettings.SUM_VISIT_LENGTH] + " " +
   result[UserSettings.BOUNCE_COUNT] + " " +
   result[UserSettings.NB_VISITS_CONVERTED] + " " +
   result[UserSettings.SUM_DAILY_NB_UNIQ_VISITORS] + " " +
   result[UserSettings.LOGO] + " " +
   result[UserSettings.SHORTLABEL]
  );
}

You can find a great deal of examples at https://github.com/piwik/piwik-dotnet-api/blob/master/Piwik.Analytics.Samples/PiwikAnalyticsSamples.cs and https://github.com/piwik/piwik-dotnet-tracker/blob/master/Piwik.Tracker.Samples/PiwikTrackerSamples.cs

This development is sponsored by www.GoDataFeed.com.

Here is the testimonial of Ro Grosman, CEO ofand  :

“Piwik has been instrumental in streamlining the analytics tracking and reporting for our clients; allowing us to focus on our core products while simultaneously providing a complete analytics package for both e-commerce and m-commerce.  Apart from Piwik’s cost-effectiveness, the platform has a seamless integration process (their C# API rocks!),  and its impressive features and customization options make it an indispensable part of our software. “

We are proud to announce that Piwik Analytics is back in the Windows Web App Gallery. The Windows App Gallery makes it easy to get Piwik installed on your IIS server.

Downloaded almost 30,000 times, now even more Microsoft IIS users can install Piwik using the Web Platform Installer.

If you are an existing IIS user running Piwik, we’d love you to share your feedback on the Microsoft Gallery so more users can know about Piwik!

Yes, Piwik has moved to GitHub! This is a significant technology move for Piwik and the team is thrilled by this change. Being on GitHub, we hope new developers and companies who believe in our mission to « Liberate Web Analytics » will join us and submit code, ideas and pull requests. For inspiration and amazing ideas, see Piwik 2.0.

Click on the screenshot and “Star” Piwik if you are a GitHub user. Below we describe why Git is so much better than SVN.

What is Git?

Git is a free distributed revision control system. As explained on Wikipedia, Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development.

Since then, Git has been embraced by a lot of big projects like Ruby on Rails; and recently more and more open source projects have also made the switch (like PHPUnit which we use for our QA process).

Apart from being extremely fast, it is also a brand new way of thinking and coding. Being distributed means that when you get a copy of a project (a “clone” in Git speak), you retrieve locally a full-fledged repository with complete history. It allows you to easily work offline for instance.

The other big advantage of Git for a project like Piwik is the ease of accepting contribution from our users. Instead of submitting patches (which you can also do), you can “fork” the project, do some work and ask a member of the core team to “pull” your work. It dramatically lowers the barrier of entry for contributing to the Piwik core. You can also easily maintain your own version of Piwik, and merge the changes easily from the master branch (easy branching and merging is yet another big advantage of Git compared to Subversion).

Note: “What is Git?” section of this post is copied and modified from the Symfony2 Git migration blog post.

Looking ahead…

Travis CI builds for Piwik will soon be working, and our 3500+ tests will run automatically on a network of distributed continuous integration workers. The tests will be executed after each commit and for all pull requests automatically.

Our Trac is still used to manage feature requests and bug reports, and it is connected to GitHub: commits will automatically create a comment in the relevant ticket, and Trac links to changesets diffs on GitHub.

Contributing to Piwik with Git

We wrote a guide to explain the best way to contribute to Piwik using Git and Github.

Follow us on GitHub: https://github.com/piwik/piwik

 I had the chance to interview (via email) Maciej Zawadziński, the CEO of Clearcode, who has also been an active and valuable Piwik core team member since 2007!

What is Clearcode?

We are a software house based in Poland, made up of a team of young but seasoned programmers, designers, system administrators, testers and project managers. It all began a few years back when my friend and I first launched a blog advertising network here in Poland. We later sold this startup and decided to invest the money we received into funding a new venture.

Establishing a software company was a natural choice for us as that was our background and we knew how to manage projects properly. Clients satisfied with our services recommended us gladly to other companies. And so, within 3 years, we were able to build a company that hires over 50 passionate web technology specialists.

Who are your customers and what kind of work do you do?

Our customers are very different, ranging from startups with global ambitions, to small and large online communities, to advertising technology companies, global brands and large corporations. We deliver the best custom software in the ad industry, web and mobile based apps and great solutions based on WordPress and Piwik. We are developing apps in PHP, Python, JavaScript, Java (Android) and Objective-C (iOS).

What sets Clearcode apart from the competition, as a web and design company?

Our flexibility and a very individual and tailored approach to every client. We work with plenty of startups so it allows us to experiment, use new technologies and solutions.

We always listen to our clients and try to achieve the best possible outcome, so we, and on the other hand our customers, feel that we are something more than just another software development company. We care about the products we deliver – our clients do stay with us and recommend us on to others. We also provide advice and consulting in the marketing/social media/business strategy fields so that the apps we deliver could be more successful.

The number of clients we acquire by “word of mouth” indicates that we deliver the highest quality development service regardless of whether our client is a startup or a large brand.

Our company’s approach and work environment attract to us extraordinary, talented people, who love what they do and are good at it. We feel honored to work with such a great team. This unique corporate culture allows us not only to work effectively but also to have fun together just like friends do.

Last but not least – attention to detail – we always try to get even the smallest detail right.

Are you using Piwik internally or with customers? If so, how are you using Piwik?

Piwik is a project close to our hearts, we remember back in the days when we used phpMyVisites. In our former company we took full advantage of Piwik’s capabilities to track our visitors. Presently we not only use it for our own purposes but also recommend Piwik to our customers, many of whom are aware of the privacy issues and wish to keep control of their data. We believe Piwik is the best open source web analytics software out there.

What is the next big thing for Clearcode?

We want to maintain the company growth despite the decline in global economy. We also aim to compete with large players on the software development market. This year we plan to launch our own product for the advertising industry so stay tuned!

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Note from Matt, Piwik Founder: Clearcode is an important technology partner for Piwik and their contributions have been enormous. They consistently demonstrate expert knowledge of Usability, Interface design, WordPress hacking, and more.  After working for nearly a year alongside Clearcode, I highly recommend their services to any business looking for a solid team of software developers and artists.

Learn more

• Visit their website at Clearcode.cc
• How to work with your clients to build long-term value? is a great writeup from Maciej on how Clearcode approaches projects.
• Learn more about other companies and individuals who make a difference in Piwik.