# Open Web Analytics

Open source web analytics framework that records visits to websites and applications and reports on them, with a JavaScript tracker and a PHP server.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/open-web-analytics/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://www.openwebanalytics.com
- repository: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics
- docs: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/wiki

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Peter Adams
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2006
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: analytics
- hosting: php
- language: php
- runtime: php
- runtimeMin: php 8.2
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: mysql
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: rest
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: scheduled, per-request
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: packaged release archive

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: GPL-2.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-11-01

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 2697
- packagistDownloads: unknown
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 24
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://www.openwebanalytics.com/ (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/wiki/Technical-Requirements (read 2026-11-03)
- runtimeMin: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/blob/1.14.6/composer.json (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://www.openwebanalytics.com/ (read 2026-11-03)
- databases: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/wiki/Technical-Requirements (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/wiki/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/wiki/Installing-from-Github (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/wiki/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- runsAs: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/wiki/Installation (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://www.openwebanalytics.com/about/ (read 2026-11-03)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/tags (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/releases/tag/1.14.6 (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/releases/tag/1.14.6 (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/contributors (read 2026-11-03)
- headlessApi: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/wiki/REST-API (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

Open Web Analytics is a web analytics framework written in PHP. A JavaScript tracker sends visits from websites and applications to a server that stores them in a MySQL database and reports on them through a web interface. The packaged release is unpacked into a directory the web server can reach, and an install wizard creates the database tables.

## Worth knowing

The install wizard, the reporting interface and the JavaScript tracker are all served from the same directory, so that directory has to be reachable from browsers. A cron entry runs the periodic maintenance, and the [installation guide](https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics/wiki/Installation) says that without it no scheduled job runs.

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