Matomo Analytics – Ethical Stats. Powerful Insights.

Since I only need to know some simple visit information, this plugin is suitable for me. And if you need more in-depth data, you can also get it. So I highly recommend it.

yorickz

October 14, 2025

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Matomo is in use on many sites. Provides good quick overview, automated monthly email reports, cookieless stats, etc.. Recommended.

aaaaabb

September 23, 2025

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Using it for one client as a test and we’re both very happy with the clear data presentation and the easy configuration.

Deskdesign

August 20, 2025

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Since I only need to know some simple visit information, this plugin is suitable for me. And if you need more in-depth data, you can also get it. So I highly recommend it.

yorickz

October 14, 2025

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Matomo is in use on many sites. Provides good quick overview, automated monthly email reports, cookieless stats, etc.. Recommended.

aaaaabb

September 23, 2025

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Using it for one client as a test and we’re both very happy with the clear data presentation and the easy configuration.

Deskdesign

August 20, 2025

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Matomo helps me eliminate the slow performance of Google Tag and Analytics, while it does most of the job, it also has some issues. 1- The backend is very CPU demanding sometimes. Checking my server resources while using Matomo shows high CPU usage.2- Matomo registers my activity(webmaster) in the website. I don’t want this since it could alter the statistics very badly. It should be easy to exclude my activity, as Im the only user in the world logged in as admin, LOL.(I already set up a filter for this but its silly that this happens by default)3- Matomo can detect how much time one person has spent on the site. You can check that in the Visitors log and the Real Time tabs. But if you go to the Pages tab, the average time is always way lower. Even zero. This is because Matomo would set the time to 0:00 if the person closes the tab or the window without going somewhere else(bounce rate). To resolve this, I installed a pop-up that forces the visitor to click on a button to close it, but Matomo won’t consider that click an “action”.4- Matomo Events are confusing to set up. Matomo should have events like scrolling, zooming, clicking, and others done by default. But instead of that, it allows us to set up manually in the most unfriendly config panel named TAG MANAGER.5- Goals: The goal manager is weird when it comes to “timed goals”. I set up a goal where if the visitor stays more than 2 minutes on the site, it should be marked as “2-minute Goal”. This goal is shown only if the visitor goes to another website. Bouncing visitors are ignored by goals.

edwinobando

June 18, 2025

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Since I only need to know some simple visit information, this plugin is suitable for me. And if you need more in-depth data, you can also get it. So I highly recommend it.

yorickz

October 14, 2025

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Matomo is in use on many sites. Provides good quick overview, automated monthly email reports, cookieless stats, etc.. Recommended.

aaaaabb

September 23, 2025

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