New Matomo Release v1.8.4: Features Overview (w/ Screenshots)

A more intuitive way to reset your password when you lose it.

Losing your password is always a pain and going through the process of reseting it can make you really feel that pain. We noticed that Matomo’s password reset process was not as user friendly as it could be, so we improved it. It now takes two steps to reset your password, instead of four, and it’s still just as secure.

See the total visit evolution for all of your websites.

If you use Matomo with multiple websites, you can view and compare statistics for different websites in one place, on the All Websites dashboard. You can also use this dashboard to see the total number of visits all of your websites received. Now in 1.8.4, you can also see how this total changed in the last day, week, month or year.

Finally, we’ve made some improvements to the way Matomo looks by adding better looking country flag icons and improving the graph images that are created by Matomo.

The new graph images aren’t perfect and may be a bit buggy, but if you want to see them in your e-mail reports, then:

• In the Display Options portion of your report’s settings select a report type that displays all graphs,
• and make sure to check the ‘Show Historical Graphs for the top 5 values’ setting.

What we’re working on

We’re working on some amazing features for the next release, including:

• Transitions
  We’re currently working on a way to visualize exactly how each of your visitors browse your website. The new Transitions plugin will display the pages your visitors visit before and after they visit a certain page. The plugin will show this information for each of your website’s pages.
• Site Search
  Many people find the content they need, not through search engines, but through an internal website search. Tracking this data can provide invaluable insights, which is why we’re working on adding this functionality to Matomo. You’ll be able to see what you’re visitors are searching for, which search keywords resulted in no results and how many visits initiated a search.
• GeoIP
  Matomo currently shows you where your visitors are located, but it will only display the country and continent of your visitors’ location. Soon we’ll be able to show you the number of visits your website gets from different regions and cities.
• More optimizations for high traffic installs.
  We’ve already implemented one optimization to this end, but there’s a lot more we can do. We’ll be putting these optimizations in place over the next month to make Matomo more efficient, both in terms of memory use and speed.