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While Google Analytics may be the most popular analytics service, there are times when you want to use your own hosted solution (intranet, control over data). Piwik is a great open source package that provides an impressive set of tools and a very nice look and feel. Using it with Elgg is extremely easy. You can write a plugin to do this in a few minutes as Elgg provides an analytics view in the footer that can be extended.

This is all it takes:

1. Install Piwik


2. Create your Elgg plugin skeleton


3. Create a view to hold your Piwik javascript code - in this case piwik/analytics


4. Register a callback for the init:system event


5. In the callback extend the footer/analytics view


6. Install and activate the plugin

The structure of this very simple plugin looks like this:

You can download it here.