Visit your own website and use the Real-time report to make sure your data is reaching Matomo. If something isn’t working, we’ll help you troubleshoot it.
You’ll finish with: Your own visit visible in Matomo and confirmation that tracking works.
Review the essential privacy settings for the data you collect, consent and data retention.
You’ll finish with: Your essential Matomo privacy settings reviewed and configured for your setup.
Learn the three essential areas of Matomo: Visitors, Behaviour and Acquisition. Then use them to find your first useful insight.
You’ll finish with: Knowing where to look and how to answer a basic question with your data.
Choose one action that matters to your organisation, turn it into a Goal and test that Matomo records it.
You’ll finish with: Your first meaningful conversion being measured.
Bring two or three important reports and KPIs into one view that you can easily check and share.
You’ll finish with: A simple dashboard showing the numbers that matter to you.
Stuck somewhere? Find the right place to get help, from Matomo Support and the Knowledge Base to practical guides and live webinars.
Once you’ve completed the essentials, choose where to go next based on what you want to achieve: bring your team into Matomo, measure campaigns, understand visitor journeys, explore behaviour, optimise your website or simply keep learning.
Like to tick things off as you go? We turned this guide into a one-page checklist.
Print it or keep it open beside you. Each item matches a lesson, so you always know what is done and what comes next.
AI traffic is real, and it’s already in your analytics, whether you can see it or not. We put together a short guide that explains what each AI report shows, how to find it in your dashboard, and what to do with the data. No technical knowledge required.
