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0 pointsthreeseed11y ago0 comments

This isn't the 90s. AWstats is not a solution for web analytics.

Funnels, Segmentation, Retention, Path Visualisation, Event Tracking.

These are basic features used by marketing teams every day.

And rolling your own solution with something like Hadoop (which would need for Mozilla sized traffic) is a big undertaking.

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Silhouette11y ago· 2 in thread

Tools like AWStats might not be up to the job, but there are other tools that do offer these kinds of features without sending data to Google. There's no need to roll your own just to do decent analytics without using Google Analytics.

vdaniuk11y ago

Care to back up your claims with some links?

Silhouette11y ago

The most obvious alternative is probably Piwik[1], which offers similar basic functionality to regular Google Analytics out of the box, but is also Open Source and highly customisable/extensible via a plugin model.

Among the features threeseed mentioned, funnel visualisation is probably the weakest area in the baseline version right now. There have been various plug-ins available to do it for a long time, but it's not built-in yet. That said, this area is underpowered in GA as well, and at least with Piwik you can do something about it (and people actually do).

Piwik has been in development for nearly a decade, has been downloaded millions of times, and is in active use by high-profile, high-volume sites. It's every bit as production-ready as Google Analytics.

[1] http://piwik.org/

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