Best practice migrating GA structure to Matomo structure

General questions
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Hi all!

Client is considering migrating from GA to Matomo and I’m thinking bout the approach for the migration.

Client has 1 “brand” but different translated URLs for each language. (ie: brand-en.com/en, brand-fr.com/fr, etc)
Client is using the same GA property on all domains but different views with filter on /en, /fr, /de.

Client will be using on-premise setup.

  1. How should i re-create this in Matomo? Should I create different websites in Matomo? Or is it possible to put it under 1 website as well with different “views”? I didn’t see any option for views in the documentation. For the collective data I will be using the roll-up reporting add-on then.

  2. If we do use separate websites, how can we import the historical Google Analytics data to the separate websites in Matomo?

  3. Same question with importing Google search console data…

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Bump please! Need to know this for a possible client.

3

Did you check the FAQ? Creating seperate websites would be my preferred choice.

https://matomo.org/faq/how-to/faq_102/

4

You can use 1 site (measurable) on matomo if you configure well, all data will be collected in the same place, then you can use segments to separate / compare the data.
Configuration of the measurable:

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Configuration of the tracking code:
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The roll-up is also possible but offers less features, in my point of view.

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Thanks for the feedback guys, I was in contact with support and apparently it is possible to import separate views into different websites. In fact it is mandatory enter a view ID.

I was able to test it with a trial account and different views.

TL;DR : yes, you need/can make different websites for each view in GA.