High traffic (20k+ requests) causing slowdown – plugin related?

  • ivanjacek

    (@ivanjacek)


    16 hours, 3 minutes ago

    Hello,

    during periods of very high traffic, your plugin significantly slows down my website and causes stability issues. This was confirmed by our server/hosting administrator, who analyzed the situation during peak traffic and recorded more than 20,000 requests related to the plugin.

    At the same time, my backup plugin also reported over 20,000 database rows generated during that period.

    I’d like to ask:

    • Is this behavior expected under high or burst traffic?
    • Is there anything that might be misconfigured on my side?
    • Is your plugin designed and tested to work reliably during sudden traffic spikes?

    Thank you for clarification.

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  • Plugin Author Rogier Lankhorst

    (@rogierlankhorst)

    15 hours, 28 minutes ago

    we have several users with high traffic websites, so in itself that shouldn’t be a problem.

    But it is unavoidable that the server load increases when you self host statistics. Each visit triggers a hit on the server, which would otherwise be handled somewhere else. And each hit adds a database row.

    Performance wise the 3.1 release improved handling of traffic during peak traffic a lot, by offloading certain expensive queries to a cron job, so if you didn’t update yet, this will certainly help.

    For best performance on high traffic websites you should set your cron job to at least every ten minutes.

    But in the end, the server needs to handle more requests if you self host statistics, and the server should be equipped for that.

    if you have more information like:

    • the version you were using at the time
    • specific issues that were encountered, e.g. a certain query

    then I can take a deeper look.

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