Blog: Stopping Referrer Spam
…action: Half of those referrers are spams, here are some well know spammers that you may have seen in your logs: buttons-for-you-website.com, best-seo-offer.com, semalt.com… The benefit for spammers is that…
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FAQ: How do I anonymize the referrer information?
…for example the URL is https://ads.example.com/path/1/?adid=123456 then the stored referrer URL will be https://ads.example.com/path/1/. If the referrer comes from a search engine, then the searched keyword will not be stored…
FAQ: Analysing pages by Title Reports instead of URL Reports
…standard Pages report. Whereas Pages differentiates between pages by URL, for example, https://example.com/products/ and https://example.com/products/2/ would be two unique pages. In the case of Page Titles, both of those pages…
FAQ: How to Install the Marketing Campaigns Reporting plugin
…Matomo for WordPress, you will need to install the free Marketing Campaigns Reporting plugin to get the additional tracking parameters for a total of eight. You can find the instructions…
Blog: Announcing our latest open source project: DeviceDetector
…gain a better visibility as well as a better support by and for the community! DeviceDetector is hosted on GitHub at piwik/device-detector. It is also available as composer package through…
FAQ: How long does it take to install Matomo?
…email notification prompting you to activate the account and set up a password. This password and the email used to sign up for the Cloud account will be your Matomo…
FAQ: What if I lose my phone?
…password. Other users are able to get access to your Matomo (Piwik) installation with this token. Matomo 3 The solution is to change your password within Matomo if you’ve lost…
Blog: Meta Receives a Record GDPR Fine from The Irish Data Protection Commission
…third-party cookies. Companies, using non-GDPR-compliant tools risk finding themselves in the crossfire of consumer angst and regulatory criticism. To operate an ethical, compliant business consider privacy-focused alternatives to Google products,…
FAQ: What is the difference between Custom Dimensions and Custom Variables?
…first class citizen reports A single Custom Dimension report can be widgetized whereas it is only possible to widgetize all Custom Variables reports combined More metrics are available for Custom…
Blog: The complete guide on tracking your websites and web apps into multiple Matomos and how to do it easily & efficiently
…= Piwik.getTracker(‘//$yourPiwikdomain/piwik.php’, var idSite = 2); tracker2.enableLinkTracking(); tracker1.trackPageView(); tracker2.trackPageView(); }; We usually don’t recommend creating trackers manually as it is more complicated and you need to make sure to configure…