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Piwik is incredible. But it should be noted that it does provide a scaling challenge for high traffic use cases (> hundred million actions per month), and hosti
by billmalarky 11y ago
Piwik is incredible. But it should be noted that it does provide a scaling challenge for high traffic use cases (> hundred million actions per month), and hosting your own analytics is expensive.
I bring this up because people had been slamming moot for using GA on 4chan instead of piwik without understanding why.
- wishinghand 11y agoDo any of the Google Analytics alternatives scale to that size?
- rbinv 11y agoFree alternatives? Not really. Paid? Yes, SiteCatalyst and Webtrekk come to mind. People seem to ignore that the tracking JavaScript is not what you're paying for. It's the backend + servers.
- billmalarky 11y agoPeople have taken piwik to 300MM up to over 1 billion actions per month. But it certainly isn't "set it and forget it." http://forum.piwik.org/t/high-traffic-piwik-servers-database-usage/3614/71 http://forum.piwik.org/t/high-traffic-piwik-servers-database...
- bjelkeman-again 11y agoWe have much lower traffic than that and our Piwik servers, with paid support from the Piwik team, often struggles to generate reports etc. Not convinced Piwik is that easy to scale.
- billmalarky 11y agoPeople have scaled it to over a billion actions per month. No clue how much of that includes customizations though... It sounds way past the out of box limit. Look at the comments from sandfox and afterlastangel in this thread. afterlastangel is pushing a billion, sandfox is around 300 MM per month. http://forum.piwik.org/t/high-traffic-piwik-servers-database-usage/3614/71 http://forum.piwik.org/t/high-traffic-piwik-servers-database...
- brettz 11y agoI'm looking into replacing GA Premium ever since Easylist blocked GA tracking for Adblocked users and self-hosted Piwik seems like the best solution. I'd be well into the billions.
- billmalarky 11y agoWith that kind of traffic hopefully you have the resources to pull it off. Good luck!