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Matomo​

Wordpress plugins​

Matomo Analytics – Ethical Stats. Powerful Insights.​

https://wordpress.org/plugins/matomo/

WP-Matomo Integration (WP-Piwik)​

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-piwik/

Data Model​

Log data​

There are four types of log data:

  • visits
  • action types
  • conversions
  • ecommerce items

GUI​

Geolocation​

DBIP / GeoIP 2 database

Auto archiving​

Cronjob

Plugins​

DBStats​
TwoFactorAuth​

Provider

TagManager

Additional plugins​

MarketingCampaignsReporting​

Auto Archiving

Privacy > Anonymize data

Mail​

./console core:test-email johan+test@whitespace.se

Ssmtp​

ssmtp johan+test@whitespace.se
To: johan+test@whitespace.se
From: johan+test@whitespace.se
Subject: test email

Hello World!

Cron jobs​

Archiving​

sudo -uweb -H crontab -e
5 2 * * * /usr/bin/php /srv/www/analys.trelleborg.se/current/matomo/console core:archive --url=https://www.trelleborg.se/ > /dev/null
5 2 * * * /usr/bin/php /srv/www/whitespace.analys.co/current/matomo/console core:archive --url=https://whitespace.se/ > /srv/www/whitespace.analys.co/logs/matomo-archive.log

Optimize database​

./console database:optimize-archive-tables all

Mysql​

max_allowed_packet=128M

## Alternative
thread_cache_size = 128
query_cache_size = 64M
query_cache_limit = 16M
query_cache_type=1

Nginx​

https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo-nginx/blob/master/sites-available/matomo.conf

server {
    listen [::]:80; ## remove this if you don't want Matomo to be reachable from IPv6
    listen 80;
    server_name matomo.example.com;
    ## Redirect all HTTP requests to HTTPS with a 301 Moved Permanently response.
    location / {
        return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
    }
}
server {
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2; ## remove this if you don't want Matomo to be reachable from IPv6
    listen 443 ssl http2;
    server_name matomo.example.com; ## list all domains Matomo should be reachable from
    access_log /var/log/nginx/matomo.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/matomo.error.log;

    ### uncomment if you want to enable HSTS with 6 months cache
    ### ATTENTION: Be sure you know the implications of this change (you won't be able to disable HTTPS anymore)
    #add_header Strict-Transport-Security max-age=15768000 always;

    ### replace with your SSL certificate
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/matomo.example.com/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/matomo.example.com/privkey.pem;

    include ssl.conf; ## if you want to support older browsers, please read through this file

    add_header Referrer-Policy origin always; ## make sure outgoing links don't show the URL to the Matomo instance
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff" always;
    add_header X-XSS-Protection "1; mode=block" always;

    root /var/www/matomo/; ## replace with path to your matomo instance

    index index.php;

    ### only allow accessing the following php files
    location ~ ^/(index|matomo|piwik|js/index|plugins/HeatmapSessionRecording/configs)\.php {
        include snippets/fastcgi-php.conf; ## if your Nginx setup doesn't come with a default fastcgi-php config, you can fetch it from https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/master/conf/fastcgi.conf
        try_files $fastcgi_script_name =404; ## protects against CVE-2019-11043. If this line is already included in your snippets/fastcgi-php.conf you can comment it here.
        fastcgi_param HTTP_PROXY ""; ## prohibit httpoxy: https://httpoxy.org/
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php7.2-fpm.sock; #replace with the path to your PHP socket file
        #fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000; ## uncomment if you are using PHP via TCP sockets (e.g. Docker container)
    }

    ### deny access to all other .php files
    location ~* ^.+\.php$ {
        deny all;
        return 403;
    }

    ### serve all other files normally
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
    }

    ### disable all access to the following directories
    location ~ ^/(config|tmp|core|lang) {
        deny all;
        return 403; ## replace with 404 to not show these directories exist
    }

    location ~ /\.ht {
        deny  all;
        return 403;
    }

    location ~ js/container_.*_preview\.js$ {
        expires off;
        add_header Cache-Control 'private, no-cache, no-store';
    }

    location ~ \.(gif|ico|jpg|png|svg|js|css|htm|html|mp3|mp4|wav|ogg|avi|ttf|eot|woff|woff2|json)$ {
        allow all;
        ### Cache images,CSS,JS and webfonts for an hour
        ### Increasing the duration may improve the load-time, but may cause old files to show after an Matomo upgrade
        expires 1h;
        add_header Pragma public;
        add_header Cache-Control "public";
    }

    location ~ ^/(libs|vendor|plugins|misc/user|node_modules) {
        deny all;
        return 403;
    }

    ### properly display textfiles in root directory
    location ~/(.*\.md|LEGALNOTICE|LICENSE) {
        default_type text/plain;
    }
}
## vim: filetype=nginx

API​

https://github.com/VisualAppeal/Matomo-PHP-API

https://matomo.org/docs/tracking-api/

Plugins​

By Matomo

Performance​

https://matomo.org/docs/requirements/#recommended-servers-sizing-cpu-ram-disks

Tracking 100,000 page views per month or less​

While Matomo can scale to millions of pages, it is also very efficient to run on a smaller scale, even on a shared hosting account.

  • One server is sufficient to host both the database and app server
  • App server minimum recommended configuration: 2 CPU, 2 GB RAM, 50GB SSD disk.

Tracking 1 million page views per month or less​

  • One server can be sufficient to host both the database and app server
  • App server minimum recommended configuration: 4 CPU, 8 GB RAM, 250GB SSD disk.

Tracking 10 million page views per month or less​

  • Two servers recommended
    • 1 x App servers, at least 8 CPUs, 16 GB RAM, 100GB SSD disk.
      • Or 2 x App servers, at least 4 CPUs, 4 GB RAM, 100GB SSD disk.
    • 1 x Database server, at least 8 CPUs, 16 GB RAM, 400GB SSD disk.

Tracking 100 million page views per month or less​

  • Three servers at minimum recommended:
    • 3 x App servers (or only 2x), with each: 16 CPUs, 16+ GB RAM, 100GB SSD disk.
    • 1 x Database server, at least 16 CPUs, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD disk.
      • optionally 2 x DB servers: second one replicated and configured as reader/slave
    • 1 x Load balancer
    • 1 x CDN recommended

Tracking more than 100 million page views per month​

You will need at least the following:

  • Five servers at minimum:
    • 3 x App servers (or more), with each: 16 CPUs, 16+ GB RAM, 100GB SSD disk.
    • 2 x Database server, at least 16 CPUs, 32 GB RAM, 1 TB SSD disk.
    • 1 x Load balancer
    • 1 x CDN