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Our attempts to install and use Piwik have always been disappointing in the past. It seems to fall apart (slow display etc.) quickly for medium to high traffic sites (50+ million page views/month). Are there any people here who are using it successfully at this order of magnitude and are willing to share some configuration hints?

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We gave up on it for the same reason. It is absurd for a simple web analytics app to require massively more powerful hardware than our actual app does. And since it is a mysql mess, any updates that touch the schema put your stats offline for hours. I really can't fathom how using mysql is still considered acceptable in 2013.

In that case, maybe take a look at Snowplow - it's open-source and we have users generating billions of events. https://github.com/snowplow/snowplow

I completely agree with the statement. I love Piwik and we use to monitor a lot of our sites. But I hate the fact that it's LAMP. Archive script runs out of memory at least once a week.

We run Piwik on 40M page views per month on dedicated server. Archiving data takes a few hours, but the UI is fast and it works. We used tips in: http://piwik.org/docs/optimize/how-to/

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