Matomo: Piwik 4.0.0: awesome improvements to user experience

[mattab]

Ideas of new features that would be very valuable to build into Piwik 4.0.0 or during 4.x development cycle. We've discussed these internally and this is just a list of exciting and most useful improvements.

Awesome improvements

• Customise the All Websites dashboard: custom list of columns https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues/7543
• Compare report data for two different periods #5711
• List entities for all websites at once (such as Goals, Forms, Heatmaps, etc)
• Re-design the Users Manager

[tsteur]

• Improve Mobile App reporting

[fengkaijia]

• Fix your map generator and generate a reasonable up-to-date world map

[hpvd]

Of course I like new features like "Compare report data for two different periods" very much :-)

Maybe one should spend same amount of work also on 3 other fields:

1. making existing functionality even easier to use/to understand for "average users" (not every one is a high power user):
   have a look at the open issues with label "major" and "c: usability"
   https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues?page=1&q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Amajor+label%3A%22c%3A+Usability%22&utf8=%E2%9C%93
   there are some really interesting ones ;-)
   like:
2. SegmentEditor: display readable values for some metrics (e.g. FF -> Firefox) #5309

3. make a difference in graphs for data of "unfinished periods" and "complete periods" #10291

4. fixing bugs and messed up things in the field of data quality / data presentation

5. open issues with label "bug" and "wrong" with or without priority backlog
   https://github.com/piwik/piwik/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Aissue%20is%3Aopen%20label%3Abug%20wrong%20

6. or things like this: visitor profile: built image of vistor is distorted #9507

7. adding value adding features the "average user" notice/use the most often (in daily life)...
   (examples will follow)

[peterbo]

• Compare report data not only for n different periods but also for n different segments

[mattab]

Thanks for your suggestions. We've worked on the Data & Segment comparison which will be available in Matomo 3.12.0 very soon. #14365

Also Matomo 4.0.0 is more or less planned, see the milestone: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/milestone/102

we also have milestones for 4.1 and 4.2 already... Check it out & stay tuned!