Requirements for the Google Analytics import
For Matomo Cloud
- Our cloud hosted service meets all the requirements automatically.
For Matomo On-Premise and Matomo for WordPress:
- At least Matomo 3.12.0 is required to use the Google Analytics importer.
- PHP configuration needs to allow the use of the functions
shell_exec()orexec() - Your server must allow the execution of the CLI PHP from within a web request and must have
nohupavailable. - Your Matomo instance should have cron archiving setup.
- Proceed to install the Google Analytics Importer plugin in your Matomo by following these steps.
Note: In some cases, the plugin does not work for servers running on Windows, we are investigating this and will provide a fix soon.