Piwik

[Joseph Gilbert]

Hi Angela,

Simply pasting the Piwik tracking code in the "Custom Analytics /
Tracking Code" box in LibGuides' System Settings worked for us.

Best,
Joe

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Joseph Gilbert
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University of Virginia Library
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On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Angela Boyd <angela.boyd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On a side note, has anyone pasted piwik code into LibGuides?
>
> On May 4, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Junior Tidal <JTidal at CITYTECH.CUNY.EDU> wrote:
>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> I use Piwik quite a bit, but I haven't 100% converted to it. I still use Google Analytics, as well as a bunch of other analytics tools.
>>
>> On the plus side, Piwik stores data on your local drive rather than on Google, protecting user privacy.
>>
>> On the negative side, I've noticed that if I don't clean out the Piwik MySQL tables every once and awhile, it may crash. This is especially true if your server drive space is limited.
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Junior Tidal
>> Assistant Professor
>> Web Services and Multimedia Librarian
>> New York City College of Technology, CUNY
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>> Brooklyn, NY 11201
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>>
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>>
>>
>>>>> Dave Bretthauer <Dave.Bretthauer at LIB.UCONN.EDU> 5/4/2012 11:51 AM >>>
>> Does anyone have any experience-testing, production use, anything in between-using Piwik as a direct replacement for Google Analytics?
>>
>> The project's site is http://piwik.org/.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave
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