How this compares
Matomo ranks #5 of 15 scanned analytics sites, scoring 81/100 — 3 points above the category average of 78. The category leader scores 84. Immediately above is Mixpanel on 81, and immediately below, Pendo on 81.
Cited by AI answer engines
In the week of Oct 11, 2026, matomo.org was cited by OpenAI (gpt-4.1-mini) on 1 of 5, Anthropic (claude-sonnet-4-6) on 1 of 5, and Perplexity (sonar) on 1 of 5 analytics prompts b/cited watches. Its best position was #3, on “Which privacy-friendly analytics tool is free for a personal blog?” (OpenAI (gpt-4.1-mini)). Citations are engine output at the time of the run, not a b/cited rating, and the prompts are a sample, not a census.
Indexing & crawl91 / 10010✓1✗
Metadata88 / 1006✓2!
- Title tag present"Privacy-first analytics you can trust - Analytics Platform - Matomo"
- Meta description present"Popular analytics tools can miss up to 40% of traffic. Matomo delivers accurate, GDPR-compliant ana…"
- H1 headingsingle H1: "Privacy-first analytics you can trust"
- Subheadings (H2)18 <h2> elements
- Mobile viewportviewport meta present
- Faviconicon link tag present
AEO (Answer Engines)56 / 1002✓5!1✗
- ai.txt (Spawning consent)missing (optional) — Spawning consent file is not load-bearing for citation, but signals intentDocs →
- AI crawler stance in robots.txtno AI crawler rules — robots.txt is default-permissive (most AI bots will follow this)Docs →
- FAQPage schema (citation-friendly)absent — FAQPage is one of the most-cited schema types in AI answersDocs →
- Author / Person schema (E-E-A-T)absent — author credibility is part of Google E-E-A-T and feeds AI citation trustDocs →
Structured data92 / 1005✓1!
- Content-specific schema in useno content-type schema (Article, Product, FAQPage, HowTo, …) — opportunity for rich resultsDocs →
Social cards60 / 1002✓2!1✗
Security93 / 1006✓1!
Performance50 / 1001!
Mobile70 / 1002✓3!
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