Currently using a single instance of Matomo for all of my sites, it's pretty good!
Doesn't take too much resources, the UI is pleasant, the functionality is everything that i'd expect from a lightweight analytics solution like Plausible plus bunches of additional stuff in regards to enriching the data (e.g. events, information about devices and software, even performance data in the latest releases).
My only concerns so far are that if i try to open the aggregate view of all of my website data in the past month (<20 sites, most popular of has 50k views i think) the CPU usage for both the main instance and the DB behind it spike for a while, which makes me think that the code underneath has either an N+1 problem, or there's inefficient data aggregation going on. I mean, if Zabbix can show me data about a dozen servers in a single view, why can't Matomo do something similar without sometimes throwing errors?
Apart from that nitpick, it's also pretty reasonable as far as GDPR goes (there's a whole section of tools for it) - currently i don't even use cookies for tracking (a global toggle in the options is available, as well as config for individual sites), anonymize the IP addresses but have a GeoIP database set up (for free) that let's me figure out the approximate location and still get the device info which is enough to give me insights into who uses my sites and what screen resolutions etc. i should target.
Overall, i'm really pleased with my choice of Matomo!
Now, on the other end of things, i also think that most projects out there should have an APM solution of sorts, for which i use another piece of free software, Apache Skywalking, which is a bit more cumbersome, but still powerful and also Zabbix for server/VPS monitoring overall. It's really nice that we can set something like that up entirely for free (hosting costs aside).
Doesn't take too much resources, the UI is pleasant, the functionality is everything that i'd expect from a lightweight analytics solution like Plausible plus bunches of additional stuff in regards to enriching the data (e.g. events, information about devices and software, even performance data in the latest releases).
My only concerns so far are that if i try to open the aggregate view of all of my website data in the past month (<20 sites, most popular of has 50k views i think) the CPU usage for both the main instance and the DB behind it spike for a while, which makes me think that the code underneath has either an N+1 problem, or there's inefficient data aggregation going on. I mean, if Zabbix can show me data about a dozen servers in a single view, why can't Matomo do something similar without sometimes throwing errors?
Apart from that nitpick, it's also pretty reasonable as far as GDPR goes (there's a whole section of tools for it) - currently i don't even use cookies for tracking (a global toggle in the options is available, as well as config for individual sites), anonymize the IP addresses but have a GeoIP database set up (for free) that let's me figure out the approximate location and still get the device info which is enough to give me insights into who uses my sites and what screen resolutions etc. i should target.
Overall, i'm really pleased with my choice of Matomo!
Now, on the other end of things, i also think that most projects out there should have an APM solution of sorts, for which i use another piece of free software, Apache Skywalking, which is a bit more cumbersome, but still powerful and also Zabbix for server/VPS monitoring overall. It's really nice that we can set something like that up entirely for free (hosting costs aside).