# Matomo

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Matomo and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Open source self-hosted web analytics that people run for privacy and no-cookie tracking. Critics say it slows under load and report generation is slow, and hosted pricing is high.

## Why people recommend it

- Open source, self-hosted analytics (2 comments): "Open source product analytics platform Matomo also looked great heading into 2026." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48181266)) "something like self-hosted PostHog/UXWizz/Matomo should be more than enough." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46078222))

## What people warn about

- Hosted plans get expensive (3 comments): "Matomo charges 22 euros for 50k hits/month.[0] Basically, it's unusable for anything other than a hobby site" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120960)) "Matomo charges 22 euros for 50k hits/month." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120852)) "Holy cow. 1m views = $204." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48046109))
- Slow under load and segments (2 comments): "when we have a sustained rate of 5-25 logins per second and above things become real slow" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120729)) "The tracking was not the issue the problem was report generation with segments." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121115))
- Unusable beyond hobby sites (2 comments): "Matomo charges 22 euros for 50k hits/month.[0] Basically, it's unusable for anything other than a hobby site" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120960)) "Basically, it's unusable for anything other than a hobby site" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120836))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Plausible](https://hackerapproved.com/p/plausible-analytics.md): 18 recommend
- [Google Analytics](https://hackerapproved.com/p/google-analytics.md): 14 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Matomo", https://hackerapproved.com/p/matomo/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).