Matomo

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A full web analytics platform comparable to Google Analytics, with goals, e-commerce, segments and reports, self-hosted or cloud.

Adopt it when

An organisation needs detailed analytics under its own control, for example for privacy rules in the public sector or EU.

Watch out

Heavy on MySQL at high traffic, and many features such as heatmaps and funnels are paid plugins.

Ready for

Production-ready

Runs as

Self-hosted server and cloud service

Built with

PHP, MySQL and Vue

How established

Established: started 15 years ago, latest release 5.14.2.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

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Built from

Follow it down: Matomo → Php-src → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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