How long does the Piwik archiving process take for high traffic websites – or hundreds of websites?
Every night, if you setup auto-archiving, Piwik will run through the logs and compile all your reports for each day, week, month and year. How long the process will take depends on your traffic, number of visits and pages, on the number of websites you have setup in Piwik… and of course on your server performance. For example, using version 0.2.26 on a single core duo2 server with 3GB of ram, Piwik archiving process takes about 25 minutes for 70 000 unique visitors (and more than 250 websites). These numbers will be better soon: making Piwik faster is a top priority. We are planning to do load & performance testing in early 2009. We have several ideas on how to make things better, we’ll let you know. Stay tuned… or come and help us if you know how to design software to make it faster. Also, if you have a medium or high traffic website, we would be interested to hear your experience with Piwik archiving. How long does archiving take for your traffic, how many visitors/pages, how man
