Matomo
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| Maintainer | Matthieu Aubry and others |
| Publishing year | 2007 from 'phpMyVisites' |
| Current version |
3.14.0 ( July 20, 2020 ) |
| Execution environment | platform independent |
| programming language | PHP |
| category | Web analytics |
| License | GPL-3.0 + |
| German speaking | Yes |
| matomo.org/ | |
Matomo , formerly Piwik , is a widely used open source - web analytics platform. Piwik replaced phpMyVisites in 2007 and competes with Google Analytics .
The Matomo web application can be operated in the provider's cloud and on its own server. When storing log data that is sensitive under data protection law , the variant with its own server can guarantee more user privacy , as the data is not automatically shared with third parties. Due to the self-hosting option and the customization options, Matomo is also often used to bypass user-side ad and tracking blockers. In Germany, Matomo is the most widely used web analytics tool after Google Analytics. Matomo has a market share of around 14.6 percent in Germany. The open source tool enables precise analyzes of overall performance and user behavior. Each customer journey is recorded 1: 1, so that the movement data of each visitor can be viewed down to the individual level. Individual customer tracking can also be implemented, with which every interaction of a visitor can be traced. While Google Analytics is limited to a maximum of ten million actions per month, Matomo uses all data for the evaluation. In addition, there are no storage limits, because Matomo does not limit the number of websites per account.
history
Since version 0.1 was released on March 6, 2008, Piwik has been downloaded a good 3.4 million times (as of January 2018). Matomo is used by numerous large sites such as bund.de or SourceForge . Piwik was the official web statistics software for projects on SourceForge until the end of 2012.
With the release of Piwik version 2.16.0 at the beginning of February 2016, Matomo is also available with long-term support . Corresponding versions are only maintained with regard to critical software errors, primarily with regard to software security, and do not receive any new functions.
On January 9, 2018, Piwik changed its name to Matomo. No further changes should be made. The first version that was released under the new name is version 3.3.0. On February 17, 2020, Matomo released a WordPress plugin called Matomo Analytics, which enables WordPress users to host the open source analysis platform directly in the WordPress installation.
Functions
The range of functions includes:
- Statistics on page views on day periods accumulated and as Echtzeitlog
- Unique visits with third party cookies
- Visitor analysis (countries of origin, browser, operating system)
- Referrer analysis
- Goal definition
- Multi-tenancy for multiple websites
- Campaign and target tracking for ecommerce
- Anonymization of the IP address for data protection (optional)
- Clients for Android and iOS
In addition, the storage of old logs can be regulated manually via the menu item Databases; this allows you to specify how long Matomo should save data. An opt-out function is also offered, which enables the user to deactivate tracking.
technology
Matomo is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database. The visitor counting is done with JavaScript or web beacons , an API , or a log file analysis .
On the server side, the libraries Zend Framework , PEAR and Twig are used as template engine (before version 2.0 Smarty ), on the client side jQuery and jqPlot are used.
The log data is stored non-relational and regularly at major instances via cron , at day periods aggregated and by "staging" integrated . These archive data are stored in individual tables for each month.
The graphical user interface (GUI) is web-based, from version 1.5 graphs are displayed with canvas elements . All indicators can also use a REST - API to query. In addition, all data in CSV , XML and JSON formats can be queried via a REST API and the software can be controlled.
With version 1.8.2 numerous revisions have been made, for example in the representation of the graphical data analysis. At the same time new features were added, such as the possibility of importing and evaluating of web server log files, creating custom code overviews ( English dashboards ) and displaying advanced reports.
To install Matomo on the server, the following requirements must be met:
- PHP version 5.5.9 or newer
- Web server (Apache, nginx or IIS)
- MySQL version 5.5 and newer or MariaDB 10
- necessary PHP extensions (pdo and pdo_mysql)
Surname
Piwik is an internationally registered word mark by Matthieu Aubry.
Matomo was also registered as an international word mark by Matthieu Aubry. The objection period for the new word mark ended on March 10, 2018. The reason for the renaming is the delimitation of companies that used the name Piwik in their name and used it commercially.
Versions
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| Piwik 0.1 | 0.1.1 | March 6, 2008 | First published version |
| Piwik 1 | 1.0 | August 28, 2010 | |
| Piwik 2 | 2.0 | 17th December 2013 |
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| 2.1 | 4th March 2014 |
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| 2.2 | 17th April 2014 |
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| 2.3 | May 26, 2014 | ||
| 2.4 | 2nd July 2014 |
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| 2.5 | 15th August 2014 |
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| 2.6 | 5th September 2014 |
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| 2.7 | September 24, 2014 |
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| 2.8 | October 14, 2014 |
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| 2.9 | November 13, 2014 | ||
| 2.10 | 5th January 2015 | ||
| 2.11 | February 16, 2015 | ||
| 2.12 | March 22, 2015 | ||
| 2.13 | April 30, 2015 | ||
| 2.14 | July 8, 2015 | ||
| 2.15 | October 22, 2015 |
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| 2.16 | 4th February 2016 |
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| 2.16.1 | April 11, 2016 |
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| 2.16.2 | 3rd August 2016 |
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| 2.16.3 | October 2nd, 2016 |
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| 2.16.4 | 3rd October 2016 |
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| 2.16.5 | 4th October 2016 |
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| 2.17.0 | October 26, 2016 |
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| 2.17.1 | November 14, 2016 |
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| Piwik 3 | 3.0.0 | 19th December 2016 |
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| 3.0.1 | January 9, 2017 |
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| 3.0.2 | 2nd March 2017 |
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| 3.0.3 | 4th April 2017 |
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| 3.0.4 | May 16, 2017 |
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| 3.1.0 | 11th September 2017 |
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| 3.1.1 | 20th September 2017 |
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| 3.2.0 | October 12, 2017 |
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| 3.2.1 | 5th December 2017 |
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| Matomo 3 | 3.3.0 | January 12, 2018 | Renaming of the project from Piwik to Matomo , maintenance updates |
| 3.4.0 | March 28, 2018 | Improvements to data export and opt-out iFrames | |
| 3.5.0 | May 8, 2018 |
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| 3.5.1 | May 25, 2018 | Maintenance updates | |
| 3.6.0 | August 28, 2018 | New user management and security improvements | |
| 3.6.1 | October 18, 2018 | Maintenance updates | |
| 3.7.0 | 19th November 2018 |
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| 3.8.0 | January 21, 2019 | ||
| 3.8.1 | January 28, 2019 | Maintenance updates | |
| 3.9.0 | 19th March 2019 | ||
| 3.9.1 | March 21, 2019 | ||
| 3.10.0 | 1st July 2019 | ||
| 3.11.0 | 23rd July 2019 | ||
| 3.12.0 | October 29, 2019 |
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| 3.13.0 | November 27, 2019 | ||
| 3.13.1 | January 16, 2020 | ||
| 3.13.2 | February 10, 2020 | ||
| 3.13.3 | February 24, 2020 | Matomo for WordPress | |
| 3.13.4 | March 3, 2020 | ||
| 3.13.5 | April 28, 2020 | ||
| 3.13.6 | June 05, 2020 | ||
Awards
Piwik was voted Project of the Month by SourceForge in July 2009. In 2012 the software won the New Zealand Open Source Awards in the “Open Source Software Project” category and in 2014 was among the last two finalists in the “Open Source Use in Business” category.
Web links
- Web site Matomo (English)
- Information and recommendations for the analysis of Internet offers with Piwik by the Independent State Center for Data Protection Schleswig-Holstein (data protection supervisory authority) (PDF; 303 kB)
- Instructions for the use of Piwik in accordance with data protection law. the requirements of the independent state data protection center Schleswig-Holstein (ULD)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Team - Analytics Platform - Piwik. In: Analytics Platform - Piwik. Retrieved June 3, 2016 (American English).
- ↑ Release 3.14.0 . July 20, 2020 (accessed July 21, 2020).
- ↑ Matomo 3.14.0 . July 20, 2020 (accessed July 21, 2020).
- ↑ According to the developer: Piwik aims to be an open source alternative to Google Analytics. http://piwik.org/
- ↑ Get Matomo - There are two ways you can get Matomo Analytics (formerly Piwik Analytics). Retrieved March 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Catch me if you can - handle ad blockers with Matomo. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .
- ^ Distribution of traffic analysis tools among websites that use .de . Retrieved October 1, 2018.
- ↑ Matomo (Piwik): The alternative to Google Analytics. Retrieved March 17, 2018 .
- ↑ w3techs.com
- ↑ Sourceforge offers Piwik to 150,000 open source projects! - Analytics Platform - Piwik. In: Analytics Platform - Piwik. November 26, 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2016 (American English).
- ↑ Hosted apps retirement | SourceForge Community Blog. In: sourceforge.net. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Hosted Apps Migration: Update | SourceForge Community Blog. In: sourceforge.net. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Matthieu Aubry: piwik.org - "Announcing Long Term Support in Piwik 2"
- ↑ matomo.org: Piwik is now Matomo - Announcement
- ↑ Piwik is now Matomo - Announcement - Analytics Platform - Matomo . In: Analytics Platform - Matomo . January 9, 2018 ( matomo.org [accessed January 9, 2018]).
- ↑ Matomo - A web analysis alternative. Matomo, accessed May 28, 2020 .
- ↑ A Tour of Matomo. Matomo, accessed October 16, 2018 .
- ↑ How do I find the visitor IP Addresses? Matomo, accessed October 16, 2018 .
- ↑ Piwik open source software. August 8, 2016, accessed March 6, 2017 .
- ↑ piwik.org
- ↑ piwik / piwik. In: GitHub. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ piwik.org
- ↑ piwik.org
- ↑ Piwik 1.8.2: Google Analytics alternative with new features and bug fixes ( Memento from June 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), t3n , accessed on June 13, 2012.
- ^ Trademark - Analytics Platform - Piwik. In: Analytics Platform - Piwik. Retrieved June 3, 2016 (American English).
- ↑ EUIPO - eSearch. In: euipo.europa.eu. Retrieved June 3, 2016 .
- ↑ EUIPO - eSearch. Retrieved January 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Piwik is now Matomo. Retrieved October 9, 2018 .
- ↑ SourceForge Community Blog | Project of the Month, July 2009. In: sourceforge.net. Retrieved June 4, 2016 .
- ↑ NZOSA Awards 2012 | New Zealand Open Source Awards. In: www.nzosa.org.nz. Retrieved June 4, 2016 .
- ↑ NZOSA Awards 2014 | New Zealand Open Source Awards. In: www.nzosa.org.nz. Retrieved June 4, 2016 .
