Introduction
Matomo or formerly known as Piwik, is free and open source, PHP based, web analytics software platform similar to Google Analytics, used by more than 300,000 websites around the world. It provides users with detailed reports of their websites, search engines and keywords used by the visitors, their language and geographical location, pages they visit, files they download, etc.. In this tutorial we will guide you through the installation of Matomo on an Ubuntu 16.04. The installation is pretty simple and straightforward and it should take no longer than 10 minutes.