Towards open gov't through OSS for web analytics: the case of Matomo
summary
Study of 253 Swedish government authorities finds 79/253 use Google Analytics, 36 proprietary solutions total and 16 use Matomo (6 only Matomo); deployment options and GDPR risk drive the OSS argument. Matomo itself shows ~48,000 contributions from ~800 contributors, with 83 authors (≥10 commits) making 88% of work and top three companies supplying 66% of commits. Matomo releases ~10 stable versions per year and supports internal or hosted deployment; commercial hosting on Kubernetes is operational.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Open government & web analytics
- 1:17Problems with proprietary tools
- 3:05Matomo study overview
- 5:14Findings on Swedish government web analytics usage
- 6:39Matomo sustainability & contributors
- 9:57Advantages of Matomo
- 10:59Thomas’s company & OSS
- 13:12Matomo services in public sector
- 15:45From software to systems
- 16:51Open source principles
- 17:33Privacy & data ownership
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