Re: Fwd: Improving the Friends of GNOME donation pages

[Patrick Fey <inside nachtarbeiter net>]

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Stormy,

On 04.05.2009 17:01, Stormy Peters wrote:
> Google analytics is really good (and free of cost, but not open source) - it
> would help us in designing the new website and in marketing in general, if
> we could add it to the website.

I suggest you consider using Piwik [1] instead of Google Analytics. It
is an open source clone of Google Analytics and - while still in beta -
should offer everything you want. I've used it in production with a
number of quite large sites and it has worked like a charm so far.

Benefits:

* It's open source.
* You can keep the data of your users in-house.
* You can delete the user data as soon as you don't need it anymore.

The only drawback I see is that it's not a hosted solution. If you want
to use it, you need to install and maintain it on Gnome servers. On the
other hand, I think this is also one of the major advantages of Piwik
over Analytics.

:-) Patrick

[1] <http://www.piwik.org/>
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