Building own web analytics services to track website traffic and visitor is available using Piwik - A open source web analytic software as a alternative solution for Google Web Analytics. There is totally no charges using Piwik whereby you can build your own web analytics services by uploading Piwik software on your web server.

Piwik web analytics services gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords and listed in a variety of ways (bar graph, pie charts, simple writing). Plus more, Piwik Web Analytics services also build inside plugin which mean you can add new features and remove the web analytic features that you don’t need. Plus more, other developer can build their customization plugin to add on Piwik web analytics.

Building own web analytics with Piwik can allow owning your website traffic data. Meanwhile, all traffic information can open APIs to display data(publishing the data in many formats: xml, json, php, csv). Beside that, Piwik web analytics user interface is fully customizable, you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display, create the reports you want.

Link to preview Piwik web analytics online demo

To build own web analytics services with Piwik, all you need is at least PHP 5.1 and a MySQL database on your web server or web hosting. Then download the Piwik latest release and upload upload web analytics coding to your webserver via FTP client. After uploading, navigate to the installation pages to install complete Piwik web analytics services.

Since i starting up this website, i have regular user for Google Web Analytics services and more then likely will continue to do so. However, you can implement Piwik web analytics for your own purpose use or track company website. For sure Piwik web analytics services is better than hosting web statistic information.

If you get a chance to download and try it, or if you are currently using it, please leave a comment on what you think about Piwik.