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Piwik is the leading Free/Libre open analytics platform.
Piwik is a full featured PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver.
At the end of the five minute installation process you will be given a JavaScript code.
Simply copy and paste this tag on websites you wish to track and access your analytics reports in real time.
Piwik aims to be a Free software alternative to Google Analytics, and is already used on more than 1,000,000 websites. Privacy is built-in!
> « To create, as a community, the leading international Free/Libre web analytics platform, providing access to all functionality through open components and open APIs. »
Or in short:
> « Liberate Web Analytics »
## License
Piwik is released under the GPL v3 (or later) license, see [misc/gpl-3.0.txt](misc/gpl-3.0.txt)
## Requirements
* MySQL 4.1 or greater, and either MySQLi or PDO library must be enabled
See http://piwik.org/docs/requirements/
* Point your browser to the directory
* Follow the steps
* Add the given javascript code to your pages
* (You may also generate fake data to experiment, by enabling the plugin VisitorGenerator)
See http://piwik.org/docs/installation/
If you do not have a server, consider our Piwik Hosting partner: http://piwik.org/hosting/
## Changelog
For the list of all tickets closed in the current and past releases, see http://piwik.org/changelog/. For the list of technical changes in the Piwik platform, see [http://developer.piwik.org/changelog](http://developer.piwik.org/changelog).
## Participate!
We believe in liberating Web Analytics, providing a free platform for simple and advanced analytics. Piwik was built by dozens of people like you,
and we need your help to make Piwik better… Why not participate in a useful project today?
You will find pointers on how you can participate in Piwik at http://piwik.org/get-involved/
## Quality Assurance
The Piwik project uses an ever-expanding comprehensive set of thousands of unit tests and hundreds of automated integration tests, system tests, JavaScript tests, and screenshot UI tests, running on a continuous integration server as part of its software quality assurance.
We use [BrowserStack.com](https://www.browserstack.com/) testing tool to help check the Piwik user interface is compatible with many browsers.
[Learn more](https://piwik.org/qa/)
## Security
Security is a top priority at Piwik. As potential issues are discovered, we validate, patch and release fixes as quickly as we can. We have a security bug bounty program in place that rewards researchers for finding security issues and disclosing them to us.
[Learn more](https://piwik.org/security/)
## Contact
http://piwik.org
Contact us: http://piwik.org/contact/ or hello@piwik.org
About us: http://piwik.org/team/
## More information
What makes Piwik unique from the competition:
* Real time web analytics reports: in Piwik, reports are by default generated in real time.
For high traffic websites, you can choose the frequency for reports to be processed.
* You own your web analytics data: since Piwik is installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database and you can get all the statistics using the powerful Piwik Analytics API.
* Piwik is a Free Software which can easily be configured to respect your visitors privacy.
* Modern, easy to use User Interface: you can fully customize your dashboard, drag and drop widgets and more.
* Piwik features are built inside plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need.
You can build your own web analytics plugins or hire a consultant to have your custom feature built in Piwik
* Vibrant international Open community of more than 200,000 active users (tracking even more websites!)
* Advanced Web Analytics capabilities such as Ecommerce Tracking, Goal tracking, Campaign tracking,
Custom Variables, Email Reports, Custom Segment Editor, Geo Location, Real time maps, and more!