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Projects from behind-the-scenes
28 septembre 2018, par Jake ThorntonKia ora from the marketing team!
Marketing team? That’s right! You haven’t heard from us in the past, but we’ve been working in the background to create a better experience for you, our dedicated Matomo community.
Kia ora? Well, that just means “hello” in Maori, we’re based in New Zealand you see.
The Matomo marketing team has some really exciting projects in the works we wanted to share with you, but first, there’s someone I want to introduce:
Meet Joselyn from the Matomo Marketing team
Meet Joselyn, one half of the Matomo marketing team and our Digital Marketing and Communications Specialist. Joselyn has come on board to help us communicate more frequently and effectively as we continue our mission to be the #1 free open source analytics platform in the world. Please take it away, Joselyn!
“Hi everyone! The team here at Matomo have been doing an incredible job passionately driving the cause for user privacy and data ownership and uniting that with a love for digital analytics. It’s exciting being a part of a team unafraid to push on with their hearts on their sleeves and their values at the forefront of everything they do. I hope to bring to light all the fantastic things happening in our world of web analytics as well as across the globe.
Joselyn Khor – Digital Marketing & Comms Specialist Our online world is fascinating when we think about what we can achieve with analytics, but there’s room to improve. We see newer technologies, but old ways of working which don’t take into account a person’s safety online. So we hope to champion a new future which looks set to be much more meaningful. Ensuring you get the best experience, but also feel protected with the knowledge that we get it. Your data and privacy isn’t for sale.
I also hear you guys, the community, have followed Matomo since the beginning, which is wonderful! I hope you’ll be able to join us as we grow and learn. We’ve got so many thrilling things to share with you. The highs, the lows and everything in between. Cheers!”
Thanks Joselyn! On top of working to engage the community and new users, Joselyn will also be keeping the rest of the Matomo team on our toes getting the inside scoop on what’s happening within the Development and Support teams; as well as giving you behind-the-scenes access to what’s going on here at Matomo. We have a big vision and with so many things happening right now, we want to get you involved as much as possible.
It may sound a bit clichéd but I’m saying it anyway – without your help, Matomo wouldn’t be here today.
Help us choose a logo
So first of all, we want you to say thank you and second we’d be delighted if you could help choose our new logo! As you may already know, we changed our name from Piwik to Matomo at the start of the year. Though it was fun using a cool font (Aileron Heavy btw) as a quick fix for our name change, it was a temporary solution. The Matomo team has been involved in the direction of creating a new logo, but now we’re stumped! We have three different concepts to choose from so please help us out!
A new website for Matomo.org!
Other exciting marketing projects include a new website design (yay!) – to everyone gasping nervously…don’t worry, nothing in what we offer is changing. We are and always will be a freely accessible open source analytics platform, just wanted to quickly clear the air on that one!
We also have some video projects in the works to make the Matomo experience better for everyone and there are even rumours a brand video that tells the Matomo story is on the way ;)
What next? With Joselyn on board and loads of exciting projects happening, it won’t be long until you hear from us again, so keep an eye out for our next update as we reveal the winning Matomo logo.
Be sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Github – we promise to be more active than what we have been!
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Choose your favourite logo
28 septembre 2018, par Matomo Core Team — CommunityWe’ve been searching for a new logo and we are now down to the final three designs. We want you, the community, to help us choose our logo as we set the scene for a refreshed and vibrant new look for Matomo.
Please choose your favourite Matomo logo from the three options below. Voting limited to once per person :)
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Developers and vendors : Want a Matomo Hoodie ? Add a tag to the Matomo Open Source Tag Manager and this could be yours !
The Free Open Source Tag Manager is now available as a public beta on the Matomo Marketplace. Don’t know what a Tag Manager is? Learn more here. In Short: It lets you easily manage all your third party JavaScript and HTML snippets (analytics, ads, social media, remarketing, affiliates, etc) through a single interface.
Over the last few months we have worked on building the core for the Matomo Tag Manager which comes with a great set of features and a large set of pre-configured triggers and variables. However, we currently lack tags.
This is where we need your help! Together we can build a complete and industry leading open source tag manager.
Tag examples include Google AdWords Conversion Tracking, Facebook Buttons, Facebook Pixels, Twitter Universal Website Tags, LinkedIn Insights.
Are you a developer who is familiar with JavaScript and keen on adding a tag? Or are you a vendor? Don’t be shy, we appreciate any tags, even analytics related :) We have documented how to develop a new tag here, which is quite easy and straightforward. You may also need to understand a tiny bit of PHP but you’ll likely be fine even if you don’t (here is an example PHP file and the related JS file).
As we want to ship the Matomo Tag Manager with as many tags as possible out of the box, we appreciate any new tag additions as a pull request on https://github.com/matomo-org/tag-manager.
We will send out “Matomo Contributor” stickers that cannot be purchased anywhere for every contributor who contributes a tag within the next 3 months. As for the top 3 contributors… you’ll receive a Matomo hoodie! Simply send us an email at hello@matomo.org after your tag has been merged. If needed, a draw will decide who gets the hoodies.
FYI: The Matomo Tag Manager is already prepared to be handled in different contexts and we may possibly generate containers for Android and iOS. If you are keen on building the official Matomo SDKs for any of these mobile platforms, please get in touch.
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Free Open Source Matomo Tag Manager now available as a beta
7 juin 2018, par Matomo Core TeamMatomo Tag Manager is the number one open source alternative to …Wait a minute, did you just say TAG MANAGER!
That’s right! Matomo’s free open source Tag Manager is now available as a beta ⟎
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Thinking about switching to GeoIP2 for better location detection ? Here’s what you should know
5 juin 2018, par Matomo Core TeamIn Matomo 3.5.0 we added a new feature to improve the location detection (country, region, city) of your visitors. Especially when it comes to IPv6 addresses, you will see less “Unknown” locations and more accurate results in general. This feature is now enabled for all new installations but needs to be manually enabled for existing Matomo self-hosted users.
Why is the Matomo plugin not enabled for existing users?
When you enable the GeoIP2 plugin, a database update will need to be executed on two datatable tables (“log_visit” and “log_conversion”) which stores some of the raw data. Please be aware that this update could take several hours depending on the size of your database.
If you store many visits in your database, it is recommended to execute the update through the command line by executing the command
./console core:updateto avoid the update from timing out. You may also have to put your Matomo into maintenance mode during this time and replay the missed traffic from logs afterwards as explained in the FAQ article.GeoIP2 may slow down your tracking
In the past we have seen that a few Matomo databases with high traffic volumes struggle to handle all the tracking requests after enabling GeoIP2. The reason for this is the location database now contains many more entries because it has to store all the IPv6 addresses and the database itself has a different format. Hence, the location lookup takes longer.
It is hard to say how much slower the location lookup gets, but we found GeoIP2-PHP is about 20 times slower than GeoIP1-PHP. On a fast CPU the lookup time for an IP with GeoIP2 takes about 1ms, but can also take much longer depending on the server.
Making location lookups fast again
There is a PHP extension available that makes lookups very fast, even faster than the old GeoIP1-PHP provider. If you can install additional PHP extensions on your server and have a high traffic website, you may want to install the GeoIP2 extension.
There is also an Nginx module and an Apache module. Unfortunately, we don’t have any performance metrics for these providers.
How do I activate the GeoIP2 location provider?
As a Super User, log in to your Matomo and go to “Administration => Plugins”. There you can activate the “GeoIP2” plugin. As mentioned, this will trigger a database update which can take a while and you may want to perform this update through the command line.
Now you can go to “Administration => Geolocation”. Here you will first need to install the GeoIP2 databases at the bottom of the page before you can activate the GeoIP2-PHP provider. To activate any of the other GeoIP2 providers, you will need to install the required modules.
You will be able to check if the detection works on the right next to location provider. Once you selected one of the available providers, you’re all good to go.
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