How do I refresh the Matomo data in a Looker Studio report?

Looker Studio provides you with the option to manually refresh data from the Matomo Connector. You can do this from either the Edit or View mode while logged in as a report editor. Simply click on the more options icon represented by three dots at the top right of the screen and then selecting the Refresh data option from the sub-menu.

A screenshot of the top right part of the screen in Looker Studio. The popup menu that displays when you click on the kebab menu icon is displayed. Two items are in the menu: "Refresh data" and "Make a copy".

As Google limit community connectors, data freshness is locked at 12 hours and it is not possible to change this setting. Refreshing more frequently than this 12 hour window will load the same data from the cache instead of retrieving the very latest data.

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