Real Time Top URLs

Mikel_Aguirre_Vera · July 14, 2022, 7:45am

Hello there!

I’m new to matomo, currently comparing it with GA side by side on Geeknetic.es and considering switching to Matomo for good.

The feature from GA I miss most on Matomo is the top URLs on Real Time. I find this to be a useful feature because it lets us see the real trime trends on our traffic. It can let us identify, for example, if a URL was picked by Google Discover.

It seems like there was a plugin for Matomo/Piwik 3, but it doesn’t seem to be compatible with Matomo 4.10.1 which is the version I currently have installed.

I would certainly be happy to pay for this feature if it was a premium plugin for example.

Thanks.

41Global · November 1, 2022, 12:29pm

I can’t wait for this feature as well Mikel! The GA real time dashboard is the only thing that is keeping me using that tool. Real time top urls would be huge for me and I’d pay as well 100%.

heurteph-ei · November 2, 2022, 10:41am

Hi @41Global, @Mikel_Aguirre_Vera
I think this kind of feature request has already been suggested in Matomo GitHub:

github.com/matomo-org/matomo

Improve the realtime page, display more data and graphics

opened 08:32AM - 22 Apr 22 UTC

triplesixman

Enhancement

Hello, Google analytics (Universal) has a bug since a few weeks on the realti…me page and shows false numbers. According to what they said, they don't plan to fix this bug because they have developed the GA4 version. https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/228201905#comment283 But this new version does not allow to see the number of people connected on the site nor the number of page views per minute. So I'm looking for an alternative and I found Matomo, but I notice that the Realtime page you propose doesn't give much information. Do you think it would be possible to add the number of connected in real time and display the number of page views per minute? If we could find this same data on Matamo it would be great https://online-metrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Real-Time-overview.png On a daily basis, we used realtime to ensure that our sites were stable, combined with a monitoring system under grafana. This allowed us to intervene as quickly as possible, especially when we noticed a drop in page views per minute, for example. I think that following the bug of google analytics many will seek an alternative.

If you can pay for such feature development, you may sponsor Matomo… @innocraft How much could this cost?

41Global · November 2, 2022, 1:40pm

Looking forward to seeing this developed for sure and i’d pay with no problem. This feature will totally allow me to remove Google Analytics from all my sites 100% and only use Matomo moving forward.

Bart6 · March 4, 2023, 2:33pm

I think this would be a very good improvement. When switching to Matomo, this was the one thing I was disappointed about that it was not there. It makes a stat dashboard so much more fun to watch. Also it provides quite some interesting insights to see the visits happen in real time.

Second thing that I missed a lot is the simple graph of visitors of today and in a dashed line in the background the visitors of yesterday.

Since GA3 is going to end soon, I think that adding these widgets could convince a lot of people to switch to Matomo instead of GA4, which is disappointing too if you are happy with the GA3 realtime dashboard features.