Joachim Nickel is a Berlin-based web analytics and Contao CMS specialist with over 25 years of self-employed experience and eight years focused on professional Matomo implementations. He helps organizations adopt privacy-compliant web analytics, having supported 100+ companies in setup, optimization and staff training, and regularly teaches and speaks at industry events like OMT, Campixx and Contentixx. Technically hands-on, Joachim contributes to open-source projects (notably enhancing PHP crawler-detection lists) and combines front- and back-end development, technical SEO and photography for a holistic digital practice. As president of the Contao Association and an active CMS Garden member he blends community leadership with pro-bono support for NGOs. He approaches client work as an embedded teammate—preferring "we"—and prioritizes long-term, privacy-first analytics solutions over freelance gigs.
8 years of coding experience
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🕷 CrawlerDetect is a PHP class for detecting bots/crawlers/spiders via the user agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 2 PRs in 12 days
Contributions summary:Joachim primarily contributed to the `crawler-detect` project by modifying and expanding the list of detected crawlers. Their work involved adding new user agents to the `Crawlers.php` file, which is the core component for detecting bots and spiders. The user's commits demonstrate expertise in maintaining and enhancing the accuracy of the crawler detection logic, reflecting a focus on back-end aspects of the project. They also performed some corrections of the strings.
Contributions:4 releases, 4 commits, 1 PR in 5 months
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Joachim Nickel - Webanalytics Mit Matomo Websites Mit Contao CMS