Added post stats into edit.php, but there is a problem.

OK. Installed ‘WordPress.com Stats’ and ‘WordPress.com Stats Helper’. Then I was trying to use the wpcomstats_visits() to pull stats into the edit.php file (admin post list). I accomplished this by installing and modifying ‘Admin Word Count’. Here is what I did:

//mostly original
add_filter(‘manage_posts_columns’, ‘count_columns’);
function count_columns($defaults) {
$defaults[‘count’] = __(‘WC’);
$defaults[‘stats’] = __(‘Hits’); //added this
return $defaults;
}

//original code
add_action(‘manage_posts_custom_column’, ‘count_custom_column’, 10, 2);
function count_custom_column($column, $post_id)
{
global $post;
if($column == ‘count’) {
echo str_word_count(strip_tags($post->post_content), 0);
}
}

//added this
add_action(‘manage_posts_custom_column’, ‘stats_custom_column’, 10, 2);
function stats_custom_column($column, $post_id)
{
global $post;
if($column == ‘stats’) {
wpcomstats_visits(‘ ‘,’ ‘ , get_the_ID() , 0);
}
}

This worked GREAT! Well almost. The edit.php takes forever to load now. The only thing I could think would be to program a batch process to pull the data in the back end once a day. I can’t do that. Anyone want to write the plugin or have another suggestion?