Matomo, formerly Piwik, is a free and open source web analytics application developed by a team of international developers, that runs on a PHP/MySQL webserver. It is one of the best free to GOOGLE ANALYTICS alternative that is free to download and use. In this tutorial you will learn how to install the MATOMO web analytics web app on a DEBIAN 10.8 instance running on AWS lightsail. You will learn how to create the DEBIAN 10.8 instace, how to connect to the instance via SSH, how to setup an APACHE web server and how to download & install the MATOMO web application. We’ll also show you how to connect to the MATOMO web console and also how to complete the post installation setup wizard.