Title: Matomo for project website analytics
license: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Matomo, formerly known as Piwik, is a free (GPL licensed) web analytics software platform. It provides detailed reports on your website and its visitors, including the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, which pages they like, and the files they download. Matomo is an open source alternative to Google Analytics, and is <a href="https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/" target="_blank">GDPR</a> compliant.


  
## Why use Matomo?

_what a project would get out of it_
  
_include negatives? For example, 'Projects should be aware that there are a number of bug reports that suggest Matomo sometimes delivers inaccurate data.'_ (https://www.trustradius.com/products/matomo/reviews?qs=pros-and-cons#overview).
  
  
## Installing and running Matomo

### Getting and using the license key

_how to get the license key_
  
### Adding Matomo to project web pages

_details here_
  
### Running Matomo

_details here_

### Troubleshooting Matomo

_details here_

### Using Matomo analytics

The analytics reports for all ASF projects using Matomo are at <a href="https://analytics.apache.org/index.php?module=MultiSites&action=index&idSite=1&period=day&date=yesterday" target="_blank">analytics.apache.org</a>. Click a project name to see detailed information on visits and page views for that project.
