Why Piwik Optimization Page Forum Links Are Broken — and Where the Matomo Community Lives Now
Those links broke when Piwik became Matomo in 2018
The dead links under “Meet other Piwik Power users & Share your experience” on the Optimize and Scale documentation page have a simple explanation: Piwik rebranded as Matomo in January 2018. The project migrated its website, forum, and community infrastructure to the new brand — and a lot of old forum URLs were never updated in the existing documentation pages. The optimization page is one casualty of that.
Where the community is now
The main forum is at forum.matomo.org. It runs on Discourse, which replaced the older forum software during the migration. The power-user discussions the optimization page was originally linking to have rough equivalents in the Performance, General Questions, and Developer sections there. Searching for threads on QueuedTracking, archiving configuration, or MySQL tuning will surface years of accumulated experience from people running Matomo at scale.
For the official performance documentation, the current address is the Configure Matomo for Speed FAQ on matomo.org. It covers caching layers, database tuning, and off-peak archiving in more depth than the old Piwik page did.
Why the old URLs don’t redirect
The rename was a full rebrand, not a cosmetic update. The domain moved from piwik.org to matomo.org, the forum domain changed, and thread IDs shifted when content was migrated to Discourse. Not all old paths got redirects. Dead links in pages that pre-date 2018 are a predictable consequence of that kind of migration — and some of them have never been cleaned up.
Worth noting: the tracking API, public HTTP APIs, and core codebase were explicitly kept stable through the rename. Matthieu Aubry’s team stated at the time that existing integrations would keep working. The code continuity held. Documentation URLs were a different story.
How to get broken links fixed in Matomo docs
The project accepts corrections through a couple of channels. Posting in the Site Feedback category on forum.matomo.org is the quickest route — the team monitors it. The matomo-org GitHub organization also handles website and documentation issues, though separate repositories cover the site, the docs, and the core platform, so finding the right one takes a moment.
In practice, a forum post in Site Feedback tends to get picked up faster than a GitHub issue for cosmetic things like broken links. Either way, a specific URL and the page it appears on is enough for the maintainers to act on it.