Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

MooTune is a MooTools class for logging events, errors and AB tests to multiple backends such as Google Analytics, Mixpanel or your own server logs. It can be used to gain insights into the actions your user’s take on your site, the errors they encounter and the affect of variations on the site with their interactions.

Requirements: MooTools Framework
Demo: http://www.mootools.net/forge/p/mootune
License: License Free

Have you ever thought of using Google Analytics’ Custom Variables feature to measure the real performance of visitors to your website? Take a look at the article: How to Measure Page Load Time With Google Analytics. It’s a little clumsy since Google Analytics wasn’t really meant to do this, but it’s good enough that many of you might find it useful.

Requirements: Google Analytics
Demo: http://blog.yottaa.com/2010/10/how-to-measure-page-load-time…
License: License Free

Hummingbird lets you see how visitors are interacting with your website in real time. And by “real time” they don’t mean it refreshes every 5 minutes – WebSockets enable Hummingbird to update 20 times per second. Hummingbird is built on top of Node.js, a new javascript web toolkit that can handle large amounts of traffic and many concurrent users.

However, please note that Hummingbird is pre-alpha software. While it shouldn’t screw up your production environment, it’s definitely not yet production ready. In fact, they are still in the process of extracting it from the original app. So check it out, but don’t expect it to fulfill your greatest desires yet.

Requirements: node.js v0.1.96, mongodb
Demo: http://mnutt.github.com/hummingbird/
License: MIT License

TraceWatch Real Time Web Stats and Traffic Analysis lets you keep track of the visitors to your website in real time with detailed statistics and deep analysis using an innovative user interface for Free and helps you make your website more effective. It can can be easily installed on any website supporting PHP and MySQL.

Requirements: PHP 5+ and Mysql 4.1+
Demo: http://www.dejkam.com/twatch/
License: License Agreement

TutorialZine has written a tutorial and shown us how to create a “Who is online” widget with PHP, MySQL and jQuery. It will display the number of visitors, currently viewing your site, and it will even be able to detect the country your visitors are from and display it in a slide out panel.

Having access to real time data on your site userbase is a dream to any webmaster. Tools like Google Analytics give a great perspective on your site’s reach, but lack the real time feel a simple widget like this can provide.

Requirements: PHP, MySQL, jQuery Framework
Demo: http://demo.tutorialzine.com/2010/03/who-is-online-widget…
License: License Free

Yahoo! Web Analytics is a highly customizable, enterprise-level website analytics system designed to help website businesses increase sales and visitor satisfaction, reduce marketing costs and gain new insight on online customers. By storing data in raw, non-aggregated form, Yahoo! Web Analytics is more than simply a reporting tool.

Yahoo! Web Analytics is a powerful, and highly flexible, data analysis tool. Both near real-time and historical data can be segmented instantly and even visualized with advanced graphs to help marketers and site designers answer specific business questions and find new insights to improve their business. However, it’s now only available for free to search and display advertisers of Yahoo! at the moment.

Requirements: Free to Search and Display Advertisers of Yahoo!
Demo: http://web.analytics.yahoo.com/

Apigee is a website that provides analytics, protection and control for APIs. Apigee enables API providers to understand usage, protect their app, and enforce API terms of use. Developers using APIs can use Apigee to get visibility into the actual service levels of the APIs they consume. Apigee is for any Web API. It supports SOAP and REST – both XML and JSON. Apigee is not yet for encrypted API traffic (SSL) or OAuth.

You can understand customers, usage patterns and app behavior with detailed analytics and alerts on API traffic, clients, errors, and data volumes. Protect your application and customers from misuse and abuse with API throttling, XML threat screening, and SLA alerts.

Apigee is a ‘Freemium’ service. Apigee’s Basic service is Free up to 10,000 messages per hour. You can create as many proxies for as many APIs as you want.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.apigee.com/
License: Free up to 10,000 Messages per hour

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is an open source web analytics framework written in PHP. OWA was born out of the need for an open source framework that could be used to easily add web analytics features to web sites and applications.

The OWA framework also comes with built-in support for popular web applications such as Wordpress and MediaWiki. As a generic web analytics framework, OWA can be extended to track and analyze any web application.

Requirements: PHP 4.4.2+, GD library
Demo: http://www.openwebanalytics.com/
License: GPL 2.0 License

With an AJAX-rich interface, GoingUp! combines powerful web-analytics with top notch SEO tools. Firstly, you can get a Complete WebSite Stats, check your visitors, referring URLs and even search engine traffic. Secondly, you can also Track Keyword Positions, see your SEO efforts by graphing keyword positions over time. Thirdly, you can set Actions & Goals, set custom tracking events to see sales, downloads and subscribes. Lastly, you can easily Customize Dashboard, Show only the data you want to see with the slick AJAX interface.

GoingUp! now lets you earn points while using the web analytics tracking as well. Soon, you’ll be able to use these points for premium services such as search engine promotion, keyword rank monitor and more. Plus, you can even turn your points into cash or prizes. Simply install the GoingUp! PHP tracking code on your site and your points will start to accumulate.

Requirements: -
Demo: https://www.goingup.com/
License: License Free