Install Matomo Web Analytics (Piwik) on Ubuntu 18.04 with Apache/Nginx

This tutorial will be showing you how to install Matomo web analytics (formerly known as Piwik) on Ubuntu 18.04 with Apache or Nginx web server. Matomo is an open-source alternative to Google analytics, which is the most widely-used web analytics software.

What’s Web Analytics?

Web analytics software are used by websites to know how many visitors are on a site in a day/week/month, what web browser they are using, etc. It is a crucial piece of software to help grow their websites. Google analytics is great, but the data of website visitors are stored on Google’s server. If you don’t want to share your website visitors’ data to a third party, you can run your own web analytics. They are many self-hosted alternatives to Google analytics and Matomo is a great one.

Read full tutorial here: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/install-matomo-web-analytics-piwik-ubuntu-18-04-apache-nginx