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Matomo is a free web analytics tool that provides you with detailed reports on your website's visitors, your marketing campaigns and much more. Matomo is a free/libre alternative to Google Analytics, available in 53 languages, and has been downloaded more than 1 million times!

Our mission and values

See https://developer.matomo.org/guides/our-mission

Getting started

  1. Download the latest release (.zip, .tar.gz)
  2. Install Matomo
  3. Follow the User Guide

Help

Matomo for Developers

If you are a developer and want to contribute code or bug fixes to Matomo, please read the guide How do I contribute to Matomo core?.

Visit the Matomo Developer Zone: the center of innovation in analytics (learn more about building on top of the open analytics platform).

How to submit a pull request

We ask you to use feature branches when submitting pull requests. This makes it easier to merge or cherry-pick your commits.

  1. Fork our repository.
  2. Clone your fork: git clone git@github.com:you/matomo.git
  3. Create feature branch: git checkout -b my_feature
  4. Develop your feature, commit often and add tests.
  5. Make sure all tests pass.
  6. Push your branch: git push origin my_feature
  7. Submit your pull request and try to explain what your feature does and why it should be a core feature.

If you are not sure whether your feature can be integrated into Matomo, don't hesitate to ask us!

Other ways to contribute

There are many other ways you can get involved in Matomo.

If you speak a language other than English consider helping to translate Matomo in your language. With each new release there are new strings to translate and you can help by registering at translations.matomo.org.

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