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Gathering web site statistics with Piwik

Posted Feb 4, 2010 15:56 UTC (Thu) by MattPerry (guest, #46341)
Parent article: Gathering web site statistics with Piwik

Why not use a tool that looks at the logs in the first place rather than combine it with this tool? If you use the logs, you get everything.

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Posted Feb 4, 2010 16:12 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

> If you use the logs, you get everything.

Actually, you don't ... the Javascript blob can extract things like resolution, plugins installed, and some other stuff. The logs give you most of what you need, though, and count things that don't run Javascript (bots, NoScript users, etc.).

jake

Gathering web site statistics with Piwik

Posted Feb 20, 2010 23:24 UTC (Sat) by Velmont (guest, #46433) [Link]

Ohwell, it does have a lil'old <img> in there with noscript. So I do believe that Piwik will track even if you don't have Javascript...