Matomo (formerly Piwik) aims to be the ultimate open source alternative to Google Analytics. Matomo tracks online visits to one or more websites and displays reports on these visits for analysis. It provides detailed reports on your website and its visitors, including the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, which pages they like, the files they download and so much more.
Matomo is written in PHP5 using a MySQL database.
Matomo is the successor to phpMyVisites.
Features include:
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- All standard statistics reports: top keywords and search engines, websites, top page URLs, page titles, user countries, providers, operating system, browser marketshare, screen resolution, Desktop VS Mobile, engagement (time on site, pages per visit, repeated visits), top campaigns, custom variables, top entry/exit pages, downloaded files, and many more, classified into four main analytics report categories – Visitors, Actions, Referrers, Goals/Ecommerce (30+ reports).
- Real time data updates.
- Get a detailed view of your visitors, pages they have visited and goals they have triggered.
- Customizable Dashboard — and create new dashboards as you see fit!
- All Websites Dashboard.
- Beautiful historical reports.
- Analytics for Ecommerce.
- Ecommerce – including abandoned carts and products & categories reporting.
- Goal conversion tracking.
- Track custom variables.
- Track Searches done on your internal search engine (Site Search Analytics).
- Geo Locate your visitors for accurate detection of Country, Region, City, Organization.
- Visitors World Map: View the visitors statistics by Country, Region, City.
- Piwik also offers a Real time World Map which auto updates showing your latest visitors.
- Pages Transitions: view what visitors did before, and after a specific page.
- Page Overlay: A visual and powerful way to look at your Page views reports, the statistics are directly displayed on overlay on top of your website.
- Site Speed and Load time, page speed reports.
- Custom Segments Editor: Create, save, edit Custom Segments, to apply advanced filtering on your visitors.
- Automatic tracking of file downloads.
- Automatic tracking of clicks on external website links.
- Optional tracking of 404 pages.
- Analytics campaign tracking.
- Automatically detects Google Analytics campaign parameters in your URLs.
- More than 800 Search Engines tracked.
- Scheduled email reports (PDF and HTML reports).
- Embed reports in your app or website, 40+ Widgets available…
- … or embed (beautiful) PNG Graphs in any custom page, email, or app!
- Optionally make your statistics public.
- No data limit, you can keep all your data.
- Create text annotations in your Graphs, to annotate particular events or notes for a given day.
- Administration:
- Manage unlimited users.
- Set user access to multiple websites.
- Manage unlimited websites.
- Exclude IPs and IP ranges.
- Exclude URL parameters.
- Timezone support, for each website.
- Supports 100+ currencies.
- Powerful options to White Label Piwik are available, ideal for large agencies or when you need a clean, branded Piwik interface.
- Upload your custom logo for UI and email reports.
- Automatically delete old logs and old data reports to keep you database size small.
- Integrates with more than 40 CMS, web frameworks or Ecommerce shops.
- More advanced user settings.
- Tracking API:
- Javascript Tracking API.
- Asynchronous code for faster page loads.
- Track & record any data using the REST Tracking API, via the PHP Tracking API Client or the Java Tracking API client.
- Track custom page URLs and page titles.
- Track subdomains.
- Supports both 1st party cookies (default) and 3rd party cookie (optional).
- Import your Apache, Nginx, IIS server logs for processing in Matomo!
- Track server speed generation time for each Page view.
- Data Export & APIs
- Data Export in Excel, XML, Json and more!
- Fully-featured analytics API.
- Administration API (REST) to create/update/delete pragmatically: users API, websites API, goals API, etc.
- Segmentation support in the API.
- Log Analytics:
- Reprocess historical data from your server logfiles.
- Report server errors and other http status codes.
- Track and identify search engine and other bots.
- Keep your data private on your server.
- User Privacy:
- Privacy compliant web analytics.
- Setting to anonymise your visitors’ IPs.
- Iframe included to let your visitor opt-out of Piwik tracking.
- DoNotTrack support by default.
- Use 1st party cookies by default, with an option to enable third party cookies.
Website: matomo.org
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Matthieu Aubry and many contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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