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Re: Piwik 3.0.0

#41
post #11

Is it still unusable for sites with traffic?

No, not usable in real life. Old-school PHP bloat that will slow down your site. Bonus: breaks occasionally on updates. Developers not willing to learn techniques needed for a quick logger with minimal impact. Run away from people using this with high traffic sites in a still-2005-PHP-mindset.

So what would you suggest as an alternative?

Re: Piwik 3.0.0

#44
post #39

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GoAccess have a PPA for Ubuntu / Debian as well: https://goaccess.io/download#official-repo

Most PPAs breaks my APT or doesn't even share the same required libs. For debian most PPAs that are initially setup for Ubuntu feel useless.

I have had the same experience generally, but had no issues with goaccess' PPA on Debian Jessie.

Re: Piwik 3.0.0

#45
post #10

Question to other Piwik users: how do you manage the ever-growing MySQL database to keep response times acceptable? Where do you host it? My Piwik instance is nearly unusable because any non-trivial request takes ages.

At a previous workplace we just ripped out the MySQL bits and persisted data to MongoDB instead, which was massively more performant under heavy load.

Re: Piwik 3.0.0

#46
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Piwik now works on websites with 100M pageviews per month and more (much more) with the right setup

So to answer the original question: Nope, doesn't work. (Quick test: if you're counting page views in millions per day, you're gonna have a tough time).

Piwik does scale to millions of pages per month. We've managed installs of Piwik at _1 billion_ pages per month that's 30 million per day! Don't believe what you read on Hacker News ;-)
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