Matomo
Matomo is a website statistics tool that is directly integrated into Typo3. As an open source application, Matomo is flexible and at the same time more innovative than Google Analytics. Another advantage is that the collected data is located in the infrastructure of the university.
To view the website statistics of your site, you need to log in to Typo3 at https://webadmin.uni-graz.at/. Under the module "UNI GRAZ" you will find the item web statistics. Here you have to log in once with your UNIGRAZonline user data to be redirected to the Matomo entry page.
If you are authorized for multiple pages, one of your pages will always be displayed. To change it, you can search for another subdomain using the search, or select another page using the dropdown. You can specify the time period of the analysis in the next field. Currently the predefined segment "All visits" is selected, this segment can be customized by you to get the analysis you need. The Dashboard field shows you all the functions and widgets you can still use. You can also create another new dashboard for yourself if you want to create special queries.
The dashboard has already been populated with widgets that provide you with a lot of information about the traffic on your website. You can see these widgets at first sight:
- Real-time visitor map
- Real-time visitor counters and their actions
- Breakdown of visits in real time
- With which device (PC, tablet, smartphone...) and browser and operating system the page was accessed
- Graph of the last visits
- Visitor overview
- Frequency overview
- Visits by server time
- Visits by days of the week
- Visits map
- Countries
- Browser language
- Device type
These are default widgets that have been displayed for you, these can be removed by you, rearranged or even more widgets can be added. You can minimize, enlarge and also manually refresh each widget. These options appear via mouseover (when you put the mouse cursor on the element) in the upper right area of the respective element.
On the left is a menu for further analysis on the topics Visitors, Behavior, Acquisition and Goals.
Visitors - here you get precise insights from where, when, with which device and which software the pages are accessed.
Behavior - this section analyzes the pages (entry pages, exit pages, outbound referrals, engagement...) If ids show up here like /?id=37713 it means that this URL is in use (would be accessible via the URL it.uni-graz.at in this example). Matomo does not know PageIDs, but only recognizes the URLs as they were called in the browser.
This is the case when editors edit the page and open the URL with the PageID via "View" or when links are set to the internal URL with the PageID and not to the actual name of the page.
To get page-specific access statistics, select the corresponding main page in the second box (if you have access to multiple pages), select Links in the Behavior menu and select Pages below it. Now you can navigate to all sub-pages according to the menu structure. To get a page-specific analysis, click on the icon Open row development that appears on mouseover. The access statistics of a week will open here. To change these, you can select the left calendar icon and query the statistics of a month or year (depending on the page and selection, updating or loading the data may take some time).
If "Do Not Track" has been activated in the website visitor's browser, an opt-out has taken place via privacy policy or other anti-tracking software is used, then this will be respected according to the visitor's wishes/settings.
For more information on Matomo, please visit: https://matomo.org/docs/matomo-tour/
