Install Matomo or Plausible for web analytics

[robe]

As discussed, it would be useful to have a Matomo instance running to grab analytics

​https://matomo.org

As discussed here - ​https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/sac/2022-October/014748.html

Requirements are:

• PHP > 7.2
• MySQL > 5.5
• Apache2 or NGINX

There is also a plugin for wordpress

​https://matomo.org/installing-matomo-for-wordpress/

I'm unclear if the wordpress one can only be used for the wordpress instance, I assume so or if it can be used for any website.

At anyrate, putting in on the wordpress instance on osgeo7, might make the most sense.

Right now the wordpress instance is running PHP 7.3, I forget which MySQL, definitely newer than 5.5, and apache2 2.4 I think. It is currently buster.

I do plan to upgrade it, first on dev, so maybe I can experiment on dev installing matomo after the upgrade.

It looks however that it relies on some javascript string to be added, so not sure how it will collect download stats such as what happens on download.osgeo.org. I would think such a tool would need access to the raw weblogs as what awstats used to process.

[robe]

pushing to next milestone since my contract funds have been used.

[neteler]

Hi @robe, it would be great to have Matomo in place for OSGeo projects.

[strk]

Vicky: any chance this could be put on your plate as well ? See also ​https://trac.osgeo.org/postgis/ticket/5559#comment:13

[strk]

​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matomo_(software) seem to be still a good choice, latest release was 2 months ago

[robe]

Also mentioned on postgis-development ​https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/postgis-devel/2023-October/030123.html is Plausible.io ​https://plausible.io/.

One thing I like about Plausible over Matomo is that it uses postgres as its backend. Matomo uses MySQL/MariaDb. Plausible general deployment is with docker.

I think when I was looking at plausible.io I thought it was only offered as a service, but similar to Matomo, you can host on your own server.

The Matomo licensing is GLPv3 while the Plausible.io is AGPL license. I think for our purposes both licensing models are fine.

[strk]

Plausible is missing from ​https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_analytics_software - if anyone is thrilled by being able to add something to our beloved human knowledge base !

[strk]

Plausible business model is intentionally keeping valued features out of the free software edition: ​https://github.com/plausible/analytics

Selected premium features are not available as we aim to ensure a protective barrier around our cloud offering.

I'd rather use MariaDB ...

[neteler]

FWIW: Matomo is pretty cool while the "community" Plausible seems to be rather limited.

[strk]

Show your support for the idea of adding PostgreSQL backend here: ​https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/500

[robe]

Replying to strk:

Show your support for the idea of adding PostgreSQL backend here: ​https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/500

I put my +1 on it, but I honestly think they aren't interested at all in supporting PostgreSQL. So I feel that will go no where.

[gdt]

Interesting commentary at:

​https://blog.fidelramos.net/software/privacy-respecting-self-hosted-web-analytics

[robe]

Moving my prior still open items to the next proposed Milestone

[neteler]

Let me underline our interest in a OSGeo-hosted Matomo instance :-)