As of today there are no third-party website tracking services in use on this site.
As geeks and Slashdot trolls we’re naturally privacy advocates. We don’t like social media tracking malware, and we don’t like to share your info with a third party.
Previously we used a Google Analytics-type tracker on the blog. It was a nice service, but they get to peek at everyone’s transactions.
Now, all tracking info is only stored on our server. We’re using an open source tracker called Piwik, thanks to teho Labs for the software recommendation.
The v1 wiki theme is also complete and online. There will be more tweaks to make best use of the space for v2. Happy weekend!
Sweet. You divined exactly why I am using Piwik, I couldn’t bring myself to let Google see my visitors in that detail. I got tired of literally reading the access logs, although they do show some pretty interesting attempted hacking, in my case mostly from IPs in China. Mostly trying to run php install scripts.
I made the switch to Piwik a few weeks ago. It has a great user-interface that’s not too far from Google Analytics.
Here in Germany it can be violation against privacy laws to use such services, most importantly because the data gets stored outside the EU. The office of a local state privacy officer released a paper explaining the installation and configuration of Piwik, so you it’s actually pretty easy to do the transition. They also recommend to anonymize the last two bytes of the IP address. In most cases you don’t need them and your visitors get the privacy they deserve.
Good choice, nice looking open source web analytics package for sure!!!