I tried Piwik but it seemed so cripplingly slow. Trying to load the analytics often took minutes.

Has anybody else experienced this?

I have been using Piwik/Matomo for years, and have never experienced this.

That being said, ultimately it's a frontend on a MySQL database, so there's lots of ways it could theoretically be slow -- MySQL isn't configured/tuned properly, the database server isn't resourced appropriately for the amount of data it's hosting, etc. But this is going to be the case for any self-hosted solution.

Although it was about five years ago, yes, my potato server (still running the same one today) couldn't handle that by a long shot. Same with Wordpress, Owncloud, and other web-based things that became a little oversized.

> Trying to load the analytics often took minutes

Do you mean loading the UI which displays the graphs etc...?

Yes, I worded that poorly. I meant loading Piwik's UI; it was cripplingly slow and often timed out. I had little luck in narrowing down the cause, but it was hardly a thorough investigation on my part, IIRC.

Assuming that your disks, DB, CPUs and RAM were all ok, maybe you did not set up PiWik's jobs that are supposed to aggregate the metrics every XX hours/days... ?

https://matomo.org/docs/setup-auto-archiving/

He's seemingly either a climate denialist or some sort of troll; just look through his post history.

I think we can all agree 1080p is "good quality", right? Your average pirate probably isn't demanding 4K quality, I imagine.

> in the UK for example they just need a BSc

That doesn't seem to be true? This page says you need an MSc, in the UK, to register and be a licensed pharmacist: https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/pharmacy/stud...

> How many people here track their users?

Right across the Internet? Very few, I imagine!

Everyone using Google Analytics is letting a third party track their users across the Internet for the DoubleClick ad network.

> Right across the Internet? Very few, I imagine!

Mainly because they don't have the resources to do it.

I'd like to think plenty of folk here would have ethical objections, too. Perhaps that's wishful thinking.

It's easy to object to something you can't do. I'm sure there's a decent amount of people who would maintain their objections, but many others would "evolve their values" when such behavior became possible and beneficial to them.

I wouldn't do it regardless of resources, because I'm not a sociopath.

It oughtn't be. You might not like their opinion pages -- yes, they're typically left-wing -- but The Guardian's reporting is absolutely top notch; amongst the best in the world.

No. They constantly blur editorial features and news. The most shared posts are ludicrous hysterical nutters that they give a platform to because it generates clicks.

How do you differentiate between opinionated/politically biased pieces and general reporting ? What's the criteria for evaluating good (ie trustworthy) reporting ? Curious to know.

Opinion pages are clearly set apart from news reporting. In The Guardian, opinion pieces appear in the "Comment is Free" section.

They usually say that the piece is an opinion piece.

Probably not, hence "almost certainly".

That's a line pushed by large corporations to convince people that money saved through tax avoision is somehow benefiting the consumer. Companies should pay their fair share of tax.

Moreover, the argument makes little sense when dealing with companies like Google and Facebook. The average consumer isn't paying for access to Google Search, Gmail, or Facebook...

This is awesome and will save me a lot of time. Thanks!

'Optimize' has been around for quite some time, just in case anybody thinks this is new. In fact, I believe this feature has been around for over a year, now.