Software update: Matomo 4.1.1

Version 4.1.1 of Matomo has been released. Matomo is an open source alternative to Google Analytics. It uses php and a MySQL database to do its job. The functionality can be easily extended with plugins, of which more than twenty are included. Of course you can also turn it off if certain functionality is not needed. For more information about Matomo, please refer to this page. The release notes for this release are as follows:

What’s new?

There are few small improvements in the user experience. Every report in Matomo now has a report description (we’ll keep improving the help messages over time). Have you recently tried to click the “Change period” button under your Evolution graphs? It now works as you’d expect it to and you can easily see your metrics over time by day, week, month or year.

In the Administration section, the menu is now collapsible, so you can find the menu you need more easily. Also, If you live in a country that sometimes require an “Imprint” page, you can now define the URL to your Imprint page in Matomo settings, similarly to defining the Privacy policy & Terms URLs. To exclude some visits from being tracked, you can now use regular expressions to match user agents to exclude.

This release also includes fixes for regressions (and some minor bugs), including one where reports processing was not working in some cases when a segment was applied. And more devices are now detected.

A new plugin has also been published called Tracking Spam prevention, to help prevent Visits and Pageviews spam. Get the free and open source Tracking Spam Prevention plugin from the Marketplace. This plugin offers various options to prevent spammers and bots from making your data inaccurate so you can rely on your data again.