Can piwik.php be customized to load faster?

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1

I had a look in the piwik.php file and would like to ask if all the following are needed for normal tracking of visitors or if something can be removed, to make piwik.php load faster.


require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/libs/upgradephp/upgrade.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/testMinimumPhpVersion.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Singleton.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Plugin/Manager.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Plugin.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Common.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Piwik.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/IP.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/UrlHelper.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Url.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/SettingsPiwik.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Config.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Translate.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/Cache.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/Db.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/Db/DbException.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/IgnoreCookie.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/VisitInterface.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/Visit.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/GoalManager.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/PageUrl.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/TableLogAction.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/Action.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/ActionPageview.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/Request.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/VisitExcluded.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Tracker/VisitorNotFoundInDb.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/CacheFile.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Filesystem.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Cookie.php';
require_once PIWIK_INCLUDE_PATH . '/core/Loader.php';
2

On a sidenote, it’s good to have a PHP caching mechanism like Xcache always enabled. It really helps a lot.

3

Unfortunately a lot of hosting companies don’t allow xcache for shared hosting accounts.

Any tips on how to strip down piwik.php to the absolutely necessary?

4

We try to keep those list of includes as small as possible. So all of the required files should be necessary.

5

Thank you for your response, SteveG.

Do you think it would have any meaningful effect on speed, if a user manually removed the comments from those files?

The users who are not activelly involved in the Piwik development at the coding level probably don’t read those comments every day.

6

No, that does not improve the speed.