Depending on the size of your site both GA or Matomo might be overkill. Both of them are huge systems. If you’re just running your private site both of them are mostly „too much“ and you’re never gonna use more than 20% of their features.
There’s much more lightweight solutions out there that also collect much less data.
One option which I couldn’t find on this site is „Umami“ - which is what I use now for most of my private sites and small clients.
I also tried a bunch but am now keeping Matomo. I like it for its cookieless (and as such consent-less) mode.
what I miss from GUA/GA4 is a "top pages" report. Matomo seems to only support a url-path-based treeview like Pages report which makes it quite difficult to find the top performing pages if the site has many sections/categories
Hi preya2k, I am one of the creators of the site. We appreciate your feedback.
Actually you can already add more candidates by clicking "List your tool? Become a partner" in the bottom right of the page. This way we allow tool owners, or other users to add more listings. We do moderate the inputs to keep the content of high quality.
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Setting it up was easy.
After some time of using it, I now like it even better than Google Analytics.
Is there any reason for me to try out one of the others?
There’s much more lightweight solutions out there that also collect much less data.
One option which I couldn’t find on this site is „Umami“ - which is what I use now for most of my private sites and small clients.
1: https://umami.is/
2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198329
I agree that Umami should be on the site and I actually tried to contact them but they did not respond.
We are testing it out as we speak and will add the listing ourselves once we know the product a bit better.
If you would like to review the tools that you have used or add a listing yourself be my guest.
Thanks for the feedback!
what I miss from GUA/GA4 is a "top pages" report. Matomo seems to only support a url-path-based treeview like Pages report which makes it quite difficult to find the top performing pages if the site has many sections/categories
Actually you can already add more candidates by clicking "List your tool? Become a partner" in the bottom right of the page. This way we allow tool owners, or other users to add more listings. We do moderate the inputs to keep the content of high quality.
Which other tools do you have in mind?