If the dashboard takes to long to load please set up Cron Archiving: [piwik.org]
A CMS only stores text data. Piwik is not a cms. It stores data for every visit and page view your website gets. This data is then processed and archived. The latest update to 1.11.1 did not change any archiving and the DB size should not have grown dramatically.
A CMS only stores text data. Piwik is not a cms. It stores data for every visit and page view your website gets. This data is then processed and archived. The latest update to 1.11.1 did not change any archiving and the DB size should not have grown dramatically.