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Informations about the package wn-matomo-plugin
Matomo Analytics
Matomo is a Google Analytics alternative that lets website owners own their analytical data and protect their customers' privacy. This is a WinterCMS plugin that integrates Matomo into WinterCMS providing reporting widgets, client-based tracking component, and (planned) a server-side tracking component.
Prerequisites
You must have access to Matomo, either through the cloud services provided by Matomo or a self hosted Matomo instance. If you are paranoid about privacy, you might want to go for a self-hosted instance.
Installation
This plugin is available for installation via Composer.
Plugin Usage
You must have basic knowledge about Matomo in order to use this plugin. In particular, you must know how to create new tracking instances, users, and security tokens. Don't be worried. This is quite easy to learn by playing around with Matomo.
Setup site on Matomo
To get Matomo Analytics setup for your Winter CMS instance:
- identify the analytics server you intend to use (e.g., matomo.org).
- in the Matomo backend set your CMS server up for tracking and note down the site ID
- again in the in the Matomo backend generate a security token (an Auth Token). Note that the Auth Token must be created under user who does not have super admin access
- add the Matomo Server URL, the Site ID, and the Auth Token to this plugin's configuration
NOTE: You may want to disable any adblockers that you are currently using.
NOTE: The tracker is disabled when authenticated backend users are detected or the website is in maintenance mode
Configuration
Configuration for this plugin is handled through a configuration file. In order to modify the configuration values and get started you can either add the values to your .env environment file or copy the plugins/winter/matomo/config/config.php file to config/winter/matomo/config.php and make your changes there.
Environment File Supported Values:
MATOMO_SERVER="https://example.matomo.cloud/"MATOMO_SITE_ID=1MATOMO_TOKEN=""
Tracking
To start tracking your visitors simply add the Tracker component to the <head> section on all of the pages that you want to include the Matomo tracker on.
NOTE: The tracker component must be rendered before the closing
</head>tag.
With that, Matomo should start tracking and you should see results shortly.
NOTE: Matomo provides near-realtime results with an emphasis on "near", so you might have to wait a few minutes to see the first results.
Reporting
This plugin provides several Dashboard ReportWidgets out of the box.
The following widgets render their data natively and can be configured with a date range and, where applicable, a result limit:
- Visits Summary – displays key visit metrics (visits, unique visitors, actions, bounce rate, average visit duration, etc.) for the selected period.
- Visits Over Time – displays a chart of visits over time for the selected number of days.
- Top Pages – displays the most visited pages, with options to limit the number of rows and exclude low-traffic pages.
- Traffic Sources (Referrers) – displays the channels driving traffic to the site (direct entry, search engines, websites, social networks, campaigns).
- Top Countries (User Country) – displays the countries visitors come from.
- Devices & Browsers (Devices Detection) – displays the device types and browsers used by visitors.
The following two widgets rely on an iframe to embed Matomo content directly into the Winter dashboard, which may cause display issues with certain browsers (for example, if third-party cookies or embedded frames are blocked):
- Analytics Dashboard – provides the entire Matomo dashboard embedded into the Winter dashboard through the use of an iframe. It is recommended that you set this widget to the maximum width in order to see all of the data present easily. This widget supports changing the period of time that is reported on.
- Analytics Report – provides the ability to pick from a pre-set list of common reports that can be embedded as individual widgets on the Winter Dashboard. Each of the widgets allows you to configure the period of time that is examined, how the data is displayed, and how many rows to include in the results. It is also possible to export the data of an individual report.
Credits
This plugin was originally written by Helmut Kaufmann, Küssnacht am Rigi, in Switzerland. Helmut can be reached by mail at [email protected].
It has since been modified and re-released under the Winter namespace as a first party plugin for Winter CMS maintained by the Winter CMS team and Helmut Kaufmann.
If you would like to contribute to this plugin's development, please feel free to submit issues or pull requests to the plugin's repository here: https://github.com/wintercms/wn-matomo-plugin
If you would like to support Helmut Kaufmann please visit PayPal.
If you would like to support Winter CMS, please visit WinterCMS.com
