Agreed this is a necessary change. However, I'm flagging this as medium priority because another option is to ask people to simply use the internal DSpace Statistics until Matomo support can be added. That said, I'm not against Matomo support overall, it just doesn't seem as high of priority as other 7.4 bug fixes at this time.

I also see a lot of requests in this direction. It would be great to support Matomo!

We also are exploring Matomo.

I have created an issue on the OpenAIRE Piwik DSpace project to see if the openaire team is willing to help us with a general solution as their patch is indeed related Piwik = old name of Matomo, OpenAIRE statistics is a central managed instance of Matomo

Hola, para integrar Matomo en DSpace 7.x, me sirvio modificar el archivo footer.component.ts, dentro del archivo debes colocar lo siguiente:

import { Component, AfterViewInit, Renderer2, ElementRef } from '@angular/core';
import { Router, NavigationEnd } from '@angular/router';
import { FooterComponent as BaseComponent } from '../../../../app/footer/footer.component';

declare global {
interface Window {
_paq: any[];
}
}

@component({
selector: 'ds-footer',
styleUrls: ['footer.component.scss'],
templateUrl: 'footer.component.html'
})

export class FooterComponent implements AfterViewInit {
currentYear = new Date().getFullYear();
private previousPageUrl: string;
constructor(
private renderer: Renderer2,
private el: ElementRef,
private router: Router
) {}

ngAfterViewInit() {
this.initializeMatomo();
this.trackPageViews();
}
private initializeMatomo() {
window._paq = window._paq || [];
window._paq.push(['trackPageView']);
window._paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']);
window._paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', '//URL_MATOMO/matomo.php']);
window._paq.push(['setSiteId', '1']);
const script = this.renderer.createElement('script');
script.type = 'text/javascript';
script.async = true;
script.src = '// URL_MATOMO/matomo.js';
this.renderer.appendChild(this.el.nativeElement, script);
}

private trackPageViews() {
this.router.events.subscribe(event => {
if (event instanceof NavigationEnd) {
if (this.previousPageUrl) {
window._paq.push(['setReferrerUrl', this.previousPageUrl]);
}
window._paq.push(['setCustomUrl', window.location.pathname + window.location.search]);
window._paq.push(['setDocumentTitle', document.title]);
window._paq.push(['trackPageView']);
this.previousPageUrl = window.location.href;
}
});
}
}

De esta forma Matomo comenzará a rastrear toda la actividad dentro de DSpace. Luego solo debes incorporar el atributo download="download" dentro del archivo file-download-link.html

<a [routerLink]="(bitstreamPath$| async)?.routerLink" download="download" class="dont-break-out" [queryParams]="(bitstreamPath$| async)?.queryParams" [target]="isBlank ? '_blank': '_self'" [ngClass]="cssClasses">

Agregando el atributo download, matomo comprende que cuando el usuario hace clic en el enlace de descarga, es efectivamente una descarga.

Aplicando estos cambios, Matomo debería capturar datos sin problema, al menos a mi me funciona sin problema.