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Self-hosted alternatives to Matomo

Matomo is a web analytics platform offered as the hosted Matomo Cloud or as software you run yourself, with heatmaps, session recordings and a tag manager. Two listed apps do its main job and run in your own Cloudflare account.

Each answer comes from the app’s README and source code, compared with the features Matomo describes on its own site.

  • InsightFlare site overview with views, visitors, sessions, bounce rate, a 30-day trend and top pages and sources

    Cookie-free web analytics with funnels, UTM reports and real-time visitors, hosted in your own Cloudflare account

    Deploy
    One-click
    License
    MIT
    GitHub stars
    539 stars
    Last commit
  • Traks site dashboard with visitors, pageviews, bounce rate, a 30-day visitor chart and top pages

    Cookie-free website analytics with live visitors and history in R2, installed into your account by a web wizard

    Deploy
    One-click
    License
    MIT
    GitHub stars
    161 stars
    Last commit

Matomo features, app by app

FeatureInsightFlareTraks
Reports for pages, sources, locations, devicesYesYes
Goals and conversionsYesYes
Custom eventsYesYes
FunnelsYesYes
Visitor segmentationYesYes
Cookieless, anonymized trackingYesYes
Heatmaps and session recordingsNoNo
Tag managerNoNo

Cookie-free web analytics with funnels, UTM reports and real-time visitors, hosted in your own Cloudflare account

What a Matomo user would miss
It has no heatmaps and session recordings or tag manager; detailed data is kept for one year unless you add an R2 archive bucket.
What it adds
Data stays in your Cloudflare account, and it adds bot request observation.
  • Yes Reports for pages, sources, locations, devices. Pages, referrers, UTM, geo, device, OS, screen size.
  • Yes Goals and conversions. Goals reports.
  • Yes Custom events. Custom events with JSON properties.
  • Yes Funnels. Funnels over visits and events.
  • Yes Visitor segmentation. Personal and team saved filters.
  • Yes Cookieless, anonymized tracking. No cookies; about 3 KB script.
  • No Heatmaps and session recordings. No heatmaps or recordings found.
  • No Tag manager. No tag manager found.

Sources:github.com/RavelloH/InsightFlare/blob/main/.github/readme/README.en.md

Cookie-free website analytics with live visitors and history in R2, installed into your account by a web wizard

What a Matomo user would miss
It has no heatmaps and session recordings or tag manager; it needs Workers Paid and uses Pipelines and R2 SQL, which its README calls open beta.
What it adds
Data stays in your Cloudflare account, and history is kept in R2.
  • Yes Reports for pages, sources, locations, devices. Pages, sources, UTM, locations, devices.
  • Yes Goals and conversions. Goal conversion scorecards.
  • Yes Custom events. Events with properties and a value.
  • Yes Funnels. Funnels with drop-off per step.
  • Yes Visitor segmentation. Filters plus saved segments.
  • Yes Cookieless, anonymized tracking. No cookies; one t.js tag.
  • No Heatmaps and session recordings. No heatmaps or recordings found.
  • No Tag manager. No tag manager found.

Sources:github.com/shivamanupadi/traks#readme