

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...
License model
- Freemium • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Self-Hosted
- Software as a Service (SaaS)
- PHP
- Cloudron
- Wordpress
Features
Matomo News & Activities
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Recent activities
- tewinkeltjm liked Matomo
- hlassiege added Matomo as alternative to Blogtally - Pulse
- reliablesoft added Matomo as alternative to LookAnalyze
- thejfex liked Matomo
- tjmakingof added Matomo as alternative to Sessionaut
- thara added Matomo as alternative to Strike Analytics
- POX added Matomo as alternative to Litlyx and Beam Analytics
Matomo information
AlternativeTo Categories
Development, Social & Communications, Network & AdminApple AppStore
- Updated Dec 23, 2024
- 4.79 avg rating
GitHub repository
- 20,193 Stars
- 2,686 Forks
- 2495 Open Issues
- Updated Feb 11, 2025
Comments and Reviews
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.
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).
Works great, I wish the WordPress plugin worked with the mobile app though..
Easy to install, easy to use. Privacy by design allowing accurate reports
Great Analytics tool, but certain things are not free
Open source and can be self-hosted. Active community with efficient support.
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.