Piwik, Google analytics has competition?

If you haven’t seen it already take a look at Piwik, an open source analytics package that is designed to compete with the ever popular Google Analytics. Open source has always had a strong blogger following, and Piwik has seen a huge increase of traffic due to bloggers posting on the release of their software.

While it is too soon to say that Piwik will replace Google Analytics (the current top free tool available), it does boast a lot of impressive features. Some of the more interesting are:

• Ability to build your own plugins (think of the possibilities!)
• Fully customizable interface
• Data is fully stored on your own server

Keep your eyes posted for more information. The ability to develop plugins, integration, and other API’s will allow some strong possibilities for monitoring and drawing conclusions from data that has been aggregated.