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• Matomo Celebrates 15 Years of Building an Open-Source & Transparent Web Analytics Solution

  30 June 2022, by Matthieu Aubry — About, Community
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  Fifteen years ago, I realised that people (myself included) were increasingly integrating the internet into their everyday lives, and it was clear that it would only expand in the future. It was an exciting new world, but the amount of personal data shared online, level of tracking and lack of security was a growing concern. Google Analytics was just launched then and was already gaining huge traction – so data from millions of websites started flowing into Google’s database, creating what was then the biggest centralised database about people worldwide and their actions online.

  So as a young engineering student, I decided we needed to build an open source and transparent solution that could help make the internet more secure and private while still providing organisations with powerful insights. I aimed to create a win-win solution for businesses and their digital consumers.

  And in 2007, I started developing Matomo with the help from Scott Switzer and Jennifer Langdon (who offered me an internship and support).   

  All thanks to the Matomo Community

  We have reached significant milestones and made major changes over the last 15 years, but we wouldn’t be where we are today without the Matomo Community.

  So I would like to celebrate and thank the hundreds of volunteer developers who have donated their time to develop Matomo, the thousands of contributors who provided feedback to improve Matomo, the countless supportive forum members, our passionate team of 40 at Matomo, the numerous translators who have translated Matomo and the 1.5 million websites that choose Matomo as their analytics platform.

  

  Matomo has been a community effort built on the shoulders of many, and we will continue to work for you. 

  So let’s look at some milestones we have achieved over the last 15 years.

  Looking back on milestones in our timeline

  2007

  • Birth of Matomo
  • First alpha version released

  2008

  • Release first public 0.1.0 version

  2009

  • 50,000 websites use Matomo

  2010

  • Matomo first stable 1.0.0 released
  • Mobile app launched

  2011

  • Released Ecommerce Analytics, Custom Variables, First Party Cookies

  • Released Privacy control features (first of many privacy features to come!)

  2012

  • Released Log Analytics feature
  • 1 Million Downloads!
  • 300,000 websites worldwide use Matomo

  2013

  • Matomo is now available in 50 languages!
  • Matomo brand redesign

  2016

  • Released Roll-Up Reporting Premium Feature, Users Flow Premium Feature, White Label Premium Feature, A/B Testing Premium Feature, Media Analytics Premium Feature, Funnels Premium Feature and Activity Log Premium Feature 
  • On-Premise Premium Plugins now available on the Marketplace

  2017

  • Launched Matomo Cloud service 
  • Released Multi Channel Conversion Attribution Premium Feature, Custom Reports Premium Feature, Login Saml Premium Feature, WooCommerceAnalytics Premium Feature and Heatmap & Session Recording Premium Feature 

  2018

  • Piwik renamed to Matomo
  • New Matomo logo and Matomo.org website re-launch
  • Launch of Matomo Tag Manager
  • 10,000 stars on Github
  • GDPR comes into effect, and Matomo released new product features and published several new guides
  • 17 Matomo features videos published online
  • Reached thousands of paying customers, making the project sustainable and financially independent

  2019

  • 700,000 websites worldwide use Matomo
  • Google Analytics importer released

  2020

  • Matomo For WordPress goes live on the WP Marketplace!
  • Released Paid Advertising Performance Premium feature
  • 100 million On-Premise Plugins downloads on the marketplace (since the beginning)

  2021

  • 1,000,000 websites worldwide use Matomo
  • including 30,000 active Matomo for WordPress installations
  • Released SEO Web Vitals, Advertising Conversion Export and Tracking Spam Prevention feature

  2022

  • Released WP Statistics to Matomo importer

  Our efforts continue

  While we’ve seen incredible growth over the years, our work doesn’t stop there. In fact, we’re only just getting started.

  Today over 55% of the internet continues to use privacy-threatening web analytics solutions, while 1.5% uses Matomo. So there are still great strides to be made to create a more private internet, and joining the Matomo Community is one way to support this movement.

  There are many ways to get involved too, such as:

  • Submitting feature requests
  • Developing for Matomo 
  • Leaving Matomo a review on sites like Capterra, TrustRadius, G2 Crowd, alternativeTo, SaaSworthy, Siftery, Open Hub
  • Translating Matomo
  • Joining our Security Bug Bounty Programme
  • Sharing Matomo with your peers
  • Talking about Matomo on social platforms

  So what comes next for Matomo?

  The future of Matomo is approachable, powerful and flexible. We’re strengthening the customers’ voice, expanding our resources internally (we’re continuously hiring!) and conducting rigorous customer research to craft a tool that balances usability and functionality.

  I look forward to the next 15 years and seeing what the future holds for Matomo and our community.

• The First Problem

  19 January 2011, by Multimedia Mike — HTML5

  A few years ago, The Linux Hater made the following poignant observation regarding Linux driver support:

  Drivers are only just the beginning... But for some reason y’all like to focus on the drivers. You know why lusers do that? Because it just happens to be the problem that people notice first.

  And so it is with the HTML5 video codec debate, re-invigorated in the past week by Google’s announcement of dropping native H.264 support in their own HTML5 video tag implementation. As I read up on the fiery debate, I kept wondering why people are so obsessed with this issue. Then I remembered the Linux Hater’s post and realized that the video codec issue is simply the first problem that most people notice regarding HTML5 video.

  I appreciate that the video codec debate has prompted Niedermayer to post on his blog once more. Otherwise, I’m just munching popcorn on the sidelines, amused and mildly relieved that the various factions are vociferously attacking each other rather than that little project I help with at work.

  Getting back to the "first problem" aspect— there’s so much emphasis on the video codec; I wonder why no one ever, ever mentions word one about an audio codec. AAC is typically the codec that pairs with H.264 in the MPEG stack. Dark Shikari once mentioned that "AAC’s licensing terms are exponentially more onerous than H.264′s. If Google didn’t want to use H.264, they would sure as hell not want to use AAC." Most people are probably using "H.264" to refer to the entire MPEG/H.264/AAC stack, even if they probably don’t understand what all of those pieces mean.

  Anyway, The Linux Hater’s driver piece continues:

  Once y’all have drivers, the fight will move to the next layer up. And like I said, it’s a lot harder at that layer.

  A few months ago, when I wanted to post the WebM output of my new VP8 encoder and thought it would be a nice touch to deliver it via a video tag, I ignored the video codec problem (just encoded a VP8/WebM file) only to immediately discover a problem at a different layer— specifically, embedding a file using a video tag triggers a full file download when the page is loaded, which is unacceptable from end user and web hosting perspectives. This is a known issue but doesn’t get as much attention, I guess because there are bigger problems to solve first (c.f. video codec issue).

  For other issues, check out the YouTube blog’s HTML5 post or Hulu’s post that also commented on HTML5. Issues such as video streaming flexibility, content protection, fullscreen video, webcam/microphone input, and numerous others are rarely mentioned in the debates. Only "video codec" is of paramount importance.

  But I’m lending too much weight to the cacophony of a largely uninformed internet debate. Realistically, I know there are many talented engineers down in the trenches working to solve at least some of these problems. To tie this in with the Linux driver example, I’m consistently stunned these days regarding how simple it is to get Linux working on a new computer— most commodity consumer hardware really does just work right out of the box. Maybe one day, we’ll wake up and find that HTML5 video has advanced to the point that it solves all of the relevant problems to make it the simple and obvious choice for delivering web video in nearly all situations.

  It won’t be this year.

• Concatenate / Join MP4 files using ffmpeg and windows command line batch NOT LINUX

  17 July 2014, by julesverne

  I’ve written a batch script that attempts to take a generic introductory title video (MP4) that runs for 12 seconds and attaches it to the beginning of 4 other MP4 videos (same video but each has a different language audio track)

  According to ffmpeg syntax here: http://ffmpeg.org/trac/ffmpeg/wiki/How%20to%20concatenate%20%28join,%20merge%29%20media%20files the concat demuxer needs to be run from a text file that looks like this:

  # this is a comment
  
  file '/path/to/file1'
  
  file '/path/to/file2'
  
  file '/path/to/file3'

  I believe everything in my script up until the point of joining the files appears to be working correctly. But I get this error:

  [concat @ 04177d00] Line 2: unknown keyword ''C:\Users\Joe\1May\session3\readyforfinalconversion\frenchfile.mp4'
  
  filelistFrench.txt: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [concat @ 03b70a80] Line 2: unknown keyword ''C:\Users\Joe\1May\session3\readyforfinalconversion\spanishfile.mp4'
  
  filelistSpanish.txt: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [concat @ 0211b960] Line 2: unknown keyword ''C:\Users\Joe\1May\session3\readyforfinalconversion\basquefile.mp4'
  
  filelistBasque.txt: Invalid data found when processing input
  
  [concat @ 03a20a80] Line 2: unknown keyword ''C:\Users\Joe\1May\session3\readyforfinalconversion\Englishfile.mp4'
  
  filelistEnglish.txt: Invalid data found when processing input

  I believe the issue lies in the text file I’m creating. Please excuse my n00b ignorance, but sometimes new script makers like myself get confused about developer jargon and may take things literally.

  So when I look at that example text file they gave, am I correct in thinking THIS is what my text file should look like?

  # this is a comment
  
  Titlefile.mp4 'C:\Users\Joe\1May\session3\readyforfinalconversion\Titlefile.mp4'
  
  Englishfile.mp4 'C:\Users\Joe\1May\session3\readyforfinalconversion\Englishfile.mp4'

  Again, am I being too literal? are the quotations correct? Are the slashes correct? In the example they provide the slashes in the path are / instead of normal windows \ . I’ll provide the entire script in case it helps.

  @echo off
  
  
  
  setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
  
  
  
  rem Create an array of languages
  
  set i=0
  
  for %%a in (French Spanish Basque English) do (
  
     set /A i+=1
  
     set term[!i!]=%%a
  
  )
  
  
  
  rem Get the title video file name from user
  
  
  
  set /p titlevideofilename=What is the title video file 
  
  
  
  name?
  
  
  
  rem create a path variable for the title video file
  
  
  
  set pathtotitlevideo=%~dp0%titlevideofilename%
  
  
  
  rem Get the names of the different language video files to append to the title video
  
  rem create a path variable for each different language video files
  
  
  
  for /L %%i in (1,1,4) do (
  
     set /p language[%%i]=what is the name of the !term
  
  
  
  [%%i]! file you want to append after the title video?
  
     set pathtofile[%%i]=%~dp0!language[%%i]!
  
  )
  
  
  
  rem create data file for ffmpeg based on variable data
  
  
  
  for /L %%i in (1,1,4) do (
  
      echo # this is a comment>>filelist!term[%
  
  
  
  %i]!.txt
  
      echo file '%pathtotitlevideo%'>>filelist!term[%
  
  
  
  %i]!.txt
  
      echo file '!pathtofile[%%i]!'>>filelist!term[%
  
  
  
  %i]!.txt
  
  )
  
  
  
  cls
  
  
  
  rem join files using ffmpeg concat option
  
  
  
  for /L %%i in (1,1,4) do (
  
     c:\ffmpeg\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe -loglevel error -f 
  
  
  
  concat -i filelist!term[%%i]!.txt -c copy !language[%
  
  
  
  %i]!.!term[%%i]!.withtitle.mp4
  
  )
  
  
  
  endlocal
  
  
  
  :eof
  
  exit

  EDIT
  Thanks to @foxidrive making me look at the simplicity of it... it occurred to me that Apparently I wasn’t being literal enough. I made these 3 changes and script works perfectly now
  1: "file" in there example literally meant the word "file"
  2: needed the use of single quotes not double quotes as it shows in there example.
  3: Used "\" instead of "/" as they have in there example.

  So NOW my code to create the text files looks like this:

  rem create data file for ffmpeg based on variable data
  
  
  
  for /L %%i in (1,1,4) do (
  
      echo # this is a comment>>filelist!term[%
  
  
  
  %i]!.txt
  
      echo file '%pathtotitlevideo%'>>filelist!term[%
  
  
  
  %i]!.txt
  
      echo file '!pathtofile[%%i]!'>>filelist!term[%
  
  
  
  %i]!.txt
  
  )

  So NOW my text file looks like this:

  # this is a comment    
  
  file 'C:\Users\Joe\1May\session3\readyforfinalconversion\Titlefile.mp4'
  
  file 'C:\Users\Joe\1May\session3\readyforfinalconversion\Englishfile.mp4'