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How To Not Make a Web Counter

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You might have noticed that the database loading times on here have doubled.

I looked at the database and had a true WTF moment.

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In as little as 1 week a WordPress plugin created 25,660 entries of visits, each one recording 1-5 visits.

Amazingly, this is one of few web counter plugins available for WordPress, and it even has over 17,000 downloads.

Update
I am currently helping the author debug this problem but for now I have already switched to another plugin which cut down database query time by 300%.

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