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It's great that it's open sourced and doesn't require an expensive $$ outlay. That's great for startups where there's not a lot of money to go around. It's also excellent that you can host your own servers, in that, the analytics data collected remains owned and managed by you. There's no third party or other possible privacy breach. The UI is well designed and fairly easy to navigate and find what you're looking for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There are certain things that just aren't working for me. I'm specifically focusing on analyzing user behavior via predefined goals. The goal tracking appears to work great. What isn't working so great is that when I apply a custom segment (in this case filtering out specific URL referrers so that testers do not pollute the production analytics), I get an "Oops error". There's no other details and despite asking to check the error logs, there's not a single line in any available error log. Even when installing the log viewer plugin, it's completely barren of error level entries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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Independence and control over features and implementation for private server implementations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
So far (7 years+ and 30 servers installed...), nothing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Being open source is surely a good advantage over picking another proprietary on-premises solution. No worries on being GDPR compliant since you will manage every aspect of analytics data gathering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Some widgets are still very simple, and it lacks the ability to correlate "n" metrics to discover new navigation patterns. As a downside of installing it yourself comes all updates you'll have to plan for. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Matomo is a very precise tool, many more than Google Analytics; It is very simple to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I don't like something about the free preview, maybe is too short to evaluate well all the instruments Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
An advantage that I personally consider is that Matomo is an open source tool which can be manipulated. Most ad blockers block the tracking code from matomo. We changed the code and name of matomo so that the ad blockers couldn't block our matomo script. Obviously its not good not to respect the privacy but from a business perspective, its good because sometracking is very critical to some businesses. Also some users unintentionally block matomo script. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Graphical user interface shows different data than the database. It uses fingerprinting technology which identifies the user on the basis of a certain parameters including IP, Device etc. It means that if multiple users are visiting a website from the same company, PIWIK automatically identify them as one user and associate the actioms from different users to only one user. That is something which we saw in front end GUI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I'm in love with the Matomo. It provides me with lots of details about activities on my website. One of the reasons for having Matomo over Google Analytics is that I have full control over the statistical data of user activity on my website. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The User Interface of Matomo is tricky for new users. And installation is a pin if not available on your Hosting Application installer. Also, required storage and database on your hosting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Open Source, community-based alternative to commercial alternative (Google Analytics) - data privacy is the primary driver. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
You do need to roll up your sleeves and prepare for installation support on your server; you will need some experience and admin access to complete and trouble-shoot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
- It is Open source and is being developed actively
- Has almost all the feature one needs to track user interactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
You can only use MySQL for backend data storage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
