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Overview

This node integrates with the Matomo API to perform various analytics and management operations. Specifically, for the Referrer resource with the Get Search Engines operation, it retrieves a list of search engines that have referred traffic to a specified site. This is useful for analyzing traffic sources and understanding which search engines are driving visitors to your website.

Use Case Examples

  1. Retrieve a list of search engines referring traffic to your website to analyze SEO performance.
  2. Fetch search engine data filtered by specific query parameters such as date range or site ID.

Properties

Name Meaning
Query Parameters A collection of optional parameters to filter or customize the API request, such as site ID, date, period, segment, and other Matomo-specific filters.

Output

JSON

  • json - The JSON response from the Matomo API containing the list of search engines referring traffic to the site.

Dependencies

  • Requires Matomo API credentials including domain URL and authentication token.

Troubleshooting

  • Ensure that the Matomo domain URL and authentication token are correctly configured in the node credentials; missing these will cause an error.
  • Verify that the query parameters are correctly formatted and valid according to Matomo API documentation to avoid request failures.
  • Check network connectivity to the Matomo server to ensure the API requests can be made successfully.
  • If the API returns an empty response or '204 No Content', verify that the site ID and date range parameters correspond to periods with available data.

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