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Website managers searching for a solution to analyze the use of their websites and applications
About Open Web Analytics
Open Web Analytics is the free and open-source web analytics framework that lets you stay in control of how you instrument and analyze the use of your websites and applications. Run OWA under your own domain or as part of your web application. OWA is a customizable web analytics framework that can be extended to meet your needs. Track WordPress and Mediawiki-based websites and admin events. OWS provided you with dozens of standard metrics, dimensions, and reports. Extensive data access API enables integration with raw data access. OWA respects GDRP and other privacy frameworks. In addition to dozens of standard web analytics metrics, dimensions, and reports, OWA has several advanced features that are not often found in open source offerings. Monitor analytics via the dashboard. View detail usage of any web page including prior and next pages viewed. View the clickstream of anonymized user sessions.
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Open Web Analytics
www.openwebanalytics.com
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