Using WordPress tags and categories in matomo
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First of all, I want to say a big thank you for matomo. It’s been pretty much perfect for my needs and it’s helped me a lot in understanding and writing about how to be GDPR compliant.
One thing that I haven’t been able to do so far, though, is to do stats on the popularity of the WordPress tags and categories on my blog.
To be precise: I can see how much traffic each blog post gets (“Page title”). Each blog post is filed under one WordPress category, e.g. Linux desktop, and may have any amount of WordPress tags on it, e.g. gnome, X11, wayland, etc. I would like to see how the competing WordPress categories fare and to see how popular the various WordPress tags are. In other words: How does the combined interest in all the posts I write about topic X (tagged with topic-x) develop over time?
I write WordPress tags and WordPress categories, because I am aware that matomo has it’s own concept of tags (“matomo tag manager”). I have investigated this and AFAICT it does not bear on my interest in WordPress post tags. I have also tried to look into keywords and events but neither of those seem relevant, either.
Is there a built-in way to look at WordPress tags or can I construct one from the building blocks in matomo as it stands now?
EDIT: And just to be clear, I’m only interested in aggregate figures, not in any way with individual tracking or behaviour, i.e.
* Interested: blog posts with topic-x tag got 150 clicks last week
* Not interested: 30% of visitors looking at topic-x tag went on to do this or that
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Hi Matt,
Apologies for not letting you know. No, I’m sorry, I couldn’t use either of your suggestions. Custom reports are too expensive for a selfhosted hobby blogger like me.
As for “search”, a) it seems like a messy way to identify topics (how to differentiate between “This post is not about Postfix” from “#postfix”?) and b) I simply couldn’t find said functionality in matomo reporting tool.
To be clear: I found that I could create goals that would respond to a string in a title, but there is no guarantee that the relevant tag or category names are found in my headlines. And “Contents” (under “Behaviour”) sounded like it could be useful but then I would need to somehow link it to my tags and I couldn’t see any way to do that.
tl;dr: I guess I will just do without. I will mark it resolved, seeing as I got answer to my question (“Is there a way to…”)
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