Matomo integration

Yoda supports tracking web statistics for visits to data package landing pages using Matomo, an open source web analytics application.

Yoda has two Matomo-related configuration options:

• Tracking using Matomo (Ansible parameter: yoda_matomo_tracking_enabled): tracks visits to landing pages. By itself, tracking visits does not expose any web analytics data to Yoda users. Only Matomo users can see web analytics information.
• Visit counter (Ansible parameter: yoda_matomo_counter_enabled): when this feature is enabled, a visit counter will be shown to visitors on all Yoda landing pages.

See the Yoda configuration guide for further information about configuration parameters.

After changing these configuration options, a publication endpoint update is needed to effectuate the changes:

irule -r irods_rule_engine_plugin-irods_rule_language-instance -F /etc/irods/yoda-ruleset/tools/update-publications.r

Matomo itself is not part of Yoda, but an associated Ansible playbook is provided to deploy a Matomo environment that can be used in combination with Yoda. The visit counter feature requires Matomo to have the Page View Counter Plugin installed, and the plugin needs to be configured using the Matomo web interface to make visit data of the landing page site publicly available by setting the “Allowed Site IDs” plugin parameter. Furthermore, it is necessary to add the landing page domain to the list of Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) domains in the general settings of Matomo, so that browsers permit the front-end page view counter code to access the page view counter plugin API.