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Moving from Matomo to Statsdot

Updated October 19, 2026

Matomo is the most complete open-source alternative to Google Analytics: heatmaps, session recordings, A/B tests, ecommerce reports, self-hosting. Many teams install it for that reason and then use a fraction of it, while someone keeps the server, the database and the updates running.

This guide is for those teams.

When switching makes sense

  • You look at visitors, sources, pages and a few goals, and rarely open the rest.
  • Someone maintains the Matomo server, and you would rather not.
  • You run Matomo with cookies and need a consent banner for it, or you configured its cookieless mode and lost features on the way. Statsdot sets no cookies by design.
  • Your team works in several languages. The Statsdot dashboard and help are in six.

When to stay with Matomo

If you use heatmaps, session recordings, A/B tests, detailed ecommerce reports or segments across sessions, Matomo does things Statsdot does not do. It is also self-hostable and open source, which matters to some organisations on its own.

What you keep

Statsdot imports the daily totals of your Matomo site: visitors, visits, pageviews, bounce rate and visit duration; pages, entry and exit pages; direct traffic, search engines, websites, social networks and campaigns; countries, regions and cities; device types, browsers and systems; event categories, outbound links and downloads.

What you give up

  • Individual visits. The Visits Log and visitor profiles do not move; Statsdot never records individual visitors.
  • Segments across days. Statsdot counts a visitor per day without cookies, so there are no returning-visitor reports.
  • Goals and funnels as configuration. Recreate your goals in Statsdot; they apply from the day you create them, and imported days count towards event goals.

How to do it

  1. Add your site to Statsdot and install the script next to Matomo's. Running both for a week or two shows how the numbers relate on your site.
  2. Create a view-only token in Matomo (Personal > Security > Auth tokens), ideally for a user with view access only.
  3. Import: in your Statsdot site settings, Import > Import from Matomo, enter the Matomo address, the site id and the token. Only the days before Statsdot started recording are imported, so nothing is counted twice. Step by step in Import from Matomo.
  4. Recreate your goals and, if you sell online, send purchases with their amount to see revenue per source.
  5. Remove the Matomo script, and review your consent banner if Matomo was the reason for it. Whether you still need one depends on everything else your site loads.

Keep the Matomo database (or an export) for as long as you might need its raw data; the import brings daily totals, not individual visits.