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Matomo

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Matomo, previously Piwik and before that PHPMyVisites, is a downloadable, open-source (GPL-licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors : the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular...

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  • FreemiumOpen Source

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  • Online  Runs on webservers
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • Self-Hosted
  • Software as a Service (SaaS)
  • PHP
  • Cloudron
  • Wordpress
4.7 / 5 Avg rating (9)
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  1.  Privacy focused

Features

  1.  Real-time analytics
  2.  Traffic Analysis
  3.  Website Traffic Stats
  4.  Social Media Analytics
  5.  Tag Manager
  6.  Ad-free
  7.  No Coding Required
  8.  User Session Recording
  9.  Dark Mode
  10.  LAMP
  11.  Tag based

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  • Developed by

    Matomo
  • Licensing

    Open Source (GPL-3.0) and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $9 and $14790 per month + free version with limited functionality.
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  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.7
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  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 12 comments and reviews about Matomo, and it has gotten 216 likes

Matomo was added to AlternativeTo by Tristan on Jun 9, 2009 and this page was last updated Jun 20, 2022. Matomo is sometimes referred to as PHPMyVisites, Piwik.

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Comment summary: Users generally praise Matomo, formerly Piwik, as a superior open-source alternative to Google Analytics, emphasizing its ability to give users full control over their data, especially with self-hosting. It provides privacy-focused features such as honoring Do-Not-Track requests and masking IPs. Despite technical complexities when scaling, it's valued for its extensive analytics abilities, though some critical features may not conform to modern standards, and premium features may not be free.
Lindsay MacVean
  
Top positive commentJun 14, 2018

Piwik (now Matomo) is an excellent opensource analytics engine. Our company runs this on large scale enterprise web software that has millions of pageviews per month. It has offered a relatively stable analytics engine and most importantly provides complete control over the data which is a necessary governance requirement for the the type of work we do.

Some critical concerns: The Piwik API does not conform to modern swagger style open API standards. It can be tricky to understand at first, especially if you have clients who need to use it with 3rd party tools such as PowerBI.

Scaling up beyond a few thousand page view per month is non-trivial. It involves multiple servers and curious complexities such as reading the threads on optimise tables functionality as well as running a separate archiving server and controlling the frequency and type of archiving actions.

Even with the above considerations certain actions can create very high load on a large database, this can lead to timeouts particularly on the front end interface. If for example a user creates multiple custom segments or tries to run a custom date range on the fly. To solve this you might need to get creative with plugins such as custom reports to decrease the scope of individual reports run on the fly and elastic autoscaling events to handle load events.

There is not much granularity on the permissions and roles structures. If you have an enterprise customer who has many individuals who wish to see specific report (but shouldn't see everything). At first you can solve this with specific reports on an email schedule, however an ultimate solution might be to wrap the API in a custom permissions schema controlled by permissions from another app. Overall we would recommend this opensource platform as the best alternative to Google Analytics and the like, just be ready to get your hands dirty in the technical end.

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Jeff Rowley
  
Positive commentAug 14, 2024

Self hosted data ensure data privacy which is a good tool. Provides many of the same functionalities that Google Analytics does. Some premium features go even above and beyond. (A/B tests, heat/session mapping).

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GUfum
  
Positive commentApr 22, 2023

Works great, I wish the WordPress plugin worked with the mobile app though..

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Baptiste THIVEND
  
Positive commentSep 7, 2021

Easy to install, easy to use. Privacy by design allowing accurate reports

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10Meisterbaelle
  
Positive commentDec 5, 2020

Great Analytics tool, but certain things are not free

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xtoph
  
Positive commentMar 26, 2019

Open source and can be self-hosted. Active community with efficient support.

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giamoss
  
Positive commentOct 16, 2017

I just found out about Piwik and I'm disappointed that I didn't know about it sooner - all that time I wasted using Google Analytics when I could have been using this great, open source, free, self-hosted alternative. I was actually so happy upon finding out about it that I wrote a blog post on it, if you want to read a more in-depth discussion of why I was so happy with it. Give Piwik a try - I'm telling you, you'll never want to use Google Analytics again.

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What is Matomo?

Matomo, previously Piwik and before that PHPMyVisites, is a downloadable, open-source (GPL-licensed) web analytics software program. It provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors : the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages... and so much more.

Matomo also protects your visitor privacy with advanced Privacy features. When using Matomo for Web Analytics, you ensure that your visitors behavior on your website(s) is not shared with advertising companies.

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