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Articles on Matomo, tag management and privacy-compliant web analytics.

In the feinwerk blog, Peter Boehlke writes about what matters when you run Matomo: operations and upgrades, Plugins for Matomo, tag management and GDPR-compliant measurement. The articles come from daily work with Matomo instances up to high-traffic scale. Every claim is backed by sources, and opinions are marked as such.

For anyone who runs Matomo, introduces it or is moving away from Google Analytics: admins, analysts and privacy officers.

GDPR in mind

Web analytics that fits the General Data Protection Regulation: configured to collect only what is needed, with no transfers to third countries.

Hosted in Germany

Your Matomo instance runs in German data centres. The data stays in Germany and belongs to you.

No lock-in

Matomo is open source. You can export raw data, reports and configuration at any time and run them yourself.

Topics

  • Matomo operations & upgrades
  • Plugins for Matomo
  • Tag management
  • Privacy & GDPR
  • GA4 & alternatives

· 7 min read

Matomo 6 upgrade checklist: what self-hosters need to check first

Matomo 6 requires PHP 8.1 and MySQL 8.0 or MariaDB 10.6, filters bots by default and alters the visits table. An upgrade checklist for self-hosters.

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· 7 min read

Cookieless Matomo: settings, opt-out and limits

Running Matomo without cookies: which setting fits, what you lose in accuracy, how the opt-out works and why cookieless doesn't mean consent-free.

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· 7 min read

GA4 now has dashboards: is Matomo still the better choice?

Google closes an old gap with GA4 dashboards. Which weaknesses remain and when Matomo is the better choice for your analytics.

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