A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting with the dev and analytics team at Mozilla. As you can imagine Mozilla generates a ton of data from Firefox as well as their various web properties. In short their analytics challenges are enormous.  Mozilla is a huge supporter of various open

Wordpress 2.5 changed some things that might effect new installations of OWA. If you are having problems getting OWA to install under WP 2.5 give the latest SVN trunk a try as it contains fixes that should resolve the issues. If no major bugs are reported we'll package a new release

1.1.0rc4 has been released. Changes/fixes include: Fix for RSS feed tracking when using URL re-writing under Wordpress Installs Fix for broken PHP alternative error logging function Fix for broken install and dashboard under Gallery2 Added re-factored template system that looks for template overrides in a directory called "local" within the module's template directory (e.g.

Quick release fixes a few critical bugs including one that was breaking wordpress feeds.Highly recommend that you update from RC2 if running OWA as a wordpress plugin. Just copy the new files over the old.Keep those bug reports coming.

We are pleased to announce the availability of OWA 1.1.0rc2. This one took a while due to the integration of object caching and a new integration plugin for tracking Gallery2 (http://gallery.menalto.com) based sites. Quick summary of new or changed features in this release includes: Object Caching. OWA will now cache objects in an

Althaf over at Blogrepreneur has some very kind words about Open Web Analytics and compares it to Google and Automattic's own stats plugin for Wordpress. In his opinion, OWA is a must have. We couldn't agree more.

Karim Vaes has released OWA Most Popular - a very cool Wordpress widget that uses OWA to put a list of your most popular posts/pages in the sidebar of your blog.  This is a great example of how to use OWA's getMetric API to present stats and analytics within your Wordpress

Unfortunately I had to close OWA's Trac to registered users only due to spam bots. I'll be replacing the Trac with a new version and enabling some registration shortly.In the meantime, if you need to file a bug please post to the mailing list and I'll open a ticket. 

This is the first release candidate of the 1.1 milestone.This release contains a significant re-write and re-working of how OWA integrates with MediaWiki.New MediaWiki features include: Simplified installation. OWA now gets its configuration values automatically from MediaWiki. See the wiki for more details on how to install OWA under MediaWiki. OWA reports

We are pleased to announce the release of 1.0.8. This release includes all of the numerous bug fixes and re-factoring efforts included in prior release candidates plus a few more. Notables include: Site specific session cookies Real-time visitor spy Fix for properly logging http referrers when using the Javascript invocation method. Fix for cookie setting under