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The standard recommendation is https://matomo.org/ https://matomo.org/. I’ve used it in production once (when it was called Piwik) and it seemed reasonable, but

The standard recommendation is https://matomo.org/ https://matomo.org/. I’ve used it in production once (when it was called Piwik) and it seemed reasonable, but I’m not sure how it stacks up right now.

TekMol 5y ago
Thanks, I will take a look at it.
mooreds 5y ago
We use matomo right now. Querying is a bit tougher (no instantaneous segments), but I find that it works fine for most of our use cases. We use their hosted version.
mywittyname 5y ago
Matomo is also dead-simple to develop plugins for. So if you're looking at a product that can be customized beyond simple analytics, Matomo is a great choice. I also used it a lot back when it was Piwik and the biggest issue was that it is backed by a MySQL database, and the way the reporting engine was designed meant that it would get pretty slow to work with custom date ranges with large volumes of data. But it did support caching and would pre-build reports over certain date ranges (by day, by month, by week, MtD, YtD).
jamesfinlayson 5y ago
A company I used to work for used Piwik and that's what I was going to suggest - I didn't realise it was now called Matomo.
KronisLV 5y ago
Currently using a single instance of Matomo for all of my sites, it's pretty good! Doesn't take too much resources, the UI is pleasant, the functionality is everything that i'd expect from a lightweight analytics solution like Plausible plus bunches of additional stuff in regards to enriching the data (e.g. events, information about devices and software, even performance data in the latest releases). My only concerns so far are that if i try to open the aggregate view of all of my website data in the past month (<20 sites, most popular of has 50k views i think) the CPU usage for both the main instance and the DB behind it spike for a while, which makes me think that the code underneath has either an N+1 problem, or there's inefficient data aggregation going on. I mean, if Zabbix can show me data about a dozen servers in a single view, why can't Matomo do something similar without sometimes throwing errors? Apart from that nitpick, it's also pretty reasonable as far as GDPR goes (there's a whole section of tools for it) - currently i don't even use cookies for tracking (a global toggle in the options is available, as well as config for individual sites), anonymize the IP addresses but have a GeoIP database set up (for free) that let's me figure out the approximate location and still get the device info which is enough to give me insights into who uses my sites and what screen resolutions etc. i should target. Overall, i'm really pleased with my choice of Matomo! Now, on the other end of things, i also think that most projects out there should have an APM solution of sorts, for which i use another piece of free software, Apache Skywalking, which is a bit more cumbersome, but still powerful and also Zabbix for server/VPS monitoring overall. It's really nice that we can set something like that up entirely for free (hosting costs aside).

TekMol 5y ago

Thanks, I will take a look at it.

mooreds 5y ago

We use matomo right now. Querying is a bit tougher (no instantaneous segments), but I find that it works fine for most of our use cases. We use their hosted version.

mywittyname 5y ago

Matomo is also dead-simple to develop plugins for. So if you're looking at a product that can be customized beyond simple analytics, Matomo is a great choice. I also used it a lot back when it was Piwik and the biggest issue was that it is backed by a MySQL database, and the way the reporting engine was designed meant that it would get pretty slow to work with custom date ranges with large volumes of data. But it did support caching and would pre-build reports over certain date ranges (by day, by month, by week, MtD, YtD).

jamesfinlayson 5y ago

A company I used to work for used Piwik and that's what I was going to suggest - I didn't realise it was now called Matomo.

KronisLV 5y ago

Currently using a single instance of Matomo for all of my sites, it's pretty good! Doesn't take too much resources, the UI is pleasant, the functionality is everything that i'd expect from a lightweight analytics solution like Plausible plus bunches of additional stuff in regards to enriching the data (e.g. events, information about devices and software, even performance data in the latest releases). My only concerns so far are that if i try to open the aggregate view of all of my website data in the past month (<20 sites, most popular of has 50k views i think) the CPU usage for both the main instance and the DB behind it spike for a while, which makes me think that the code underneath has either an N+1 problem, or there's inefficient data aggregation going on. I mean, if Zabbix can show me data about a dozen servers in a single view, why can't Matomo do something similar without sometimes throwing errors? Apart from that nitpick, it's also pretty reasonable as far as GDPR goes (there's a whole section of tools for it) - currently i don't even use cookies for tracking (a global toggle in the options is available, as well as config for individual sites), anonymize the IP addresses but have a GeoIP database set up (for free) that let's me figure out the approximate location and still get the device info which is enough to give me insights into who uses my sites and what screen resolutions etc. i should target. Overall, i'm really pleased with my choice of Matomo! Now, on the other end of things, i also think that most projects out there should have an APM solution of sorts, for which i use another piece of free software, Apache Skywalking, which is a bit more cumbersome, but still powerful and also Zabbix for server/VPS monitoring overall. It's really nice that we can set something like that up entirely for free (hosting costs aside).