When comparing Matomo (previously Piwik) vs Yandex Metrica, the Slant community recommends Matomo (previously Piwik) for most people. In the question“What are the best analytics tools for a SaaS web applications?” Matomo (previously Piwik) is ranked 6th while Yandex Metrica is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Matomo (previously Piwik) is:
There are no restrictions, pricing tiers, or risks of the service being killed off, because you can run it on your own hardware.
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Pros
Pro Able to be self-hosted
There are no restrictions, pricing tiers, or risks of the service being killed off, because you can run it on your own hardware.
Pro Free / Libre software
Pro Customazible reports with attribution modelling
Pro No limits or sampling
Pro Built-in click heatmap
Metrica can track where users click (includes non-link items) allowing you to see the most popular sections as well as items mistaken for links.
Pro Offers site availability monitoring
Metrica can monitor the site for availability issues and send out an email and/or SMS notification when issues occur.
Pro Shows keyword data from encrypted Yandex search queries
Yandex encrypts all search queries so they don't show up in any other analytics tool except for Metrica.