Overview
Open-source web analytics platform (formerly Piwik). Available as self-hosted or cloud-hosted. Provides page view tracking, event analytics, heatmaps, and session recording. Designed with privacy as a core feature, offering full data ownership when self-hosted.
Detection capabilities
- Signature count
- 5
- Detection methods
- pagenetwork
- Property types
- script_srcglobal_variablehostnamepathname
Performance impact
Performance Impact
- Script size
- 25 KB
- Requests per page
- 2
Common mistakes
- 1Claiming CNIL consent exemption without meeting all the required conditions (IP anonymisation, no cross-site tracking, limited retention)
- 2Assuming self-hosted deployment automatically qualifies for consent exemption without proper configuration
- 3Not enabling IP anonymisation by default, which is required for the CNIL exemption
Compliance considerations
When self-hosted with IP anonymisation and without cross-site tracking, Matomo can potentially operate without consent under the CNIL's exemption for audience measurement tools. This exemption is jurisdiction-specific — verify applicability in your market. Cloud-hosted Matomo processes data in the EU (Germany/France). Always configure IP anonymisation and disable cross-site user linking.
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